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email: davborsk(at)gmail(dot)com

post: 45 church street hartford, ct 06103

links:
interviews -
table to stage
boston voyager
365 artists 365 days
yale radio
live culture (starts at 32:08)
hartford public library
articles -
gamescenes
widewalls
new haven independant
hyperallergic

resume:

solo exhibitions (selected):
2021
welcome to the jungle, no fly list gallery, suffield, ct.
2021
murder for a jar of red rum, pegasus gallery, mxcc, middletown, ct.
2018
blown away, EBK gallery, hartford, ct.
2016
wicked garden, five points gallery, torrington, ct.
blast, EBK gallery, hartford, ct.
2015
sell me down the river, real art ways, hartford, ct.
2014
god save your mad parade, new britain museum of american art, new britain, ct.
2013-14
at the start of the end of history, ARTWALK at hartford public library, hartford, ct.
2013
in the next world's fair, orison project, essex, ct.
2012-13
somewhere between support and collapse, arts west gallery, elon univ., nc.
2011
its only a game if you win, ATOM space, hartford, ct.
the other side, soap box gallery, brooklyn, ny.
2009   
goes around comes around, artspace, new haven, ct (catalogue).
born to win, ford gallery, eastern michigan university, ypsilanti, mi.
2007   
learn to forget, olin gallery, washington & jefferson college, washington, pa.
2002   
strange days, samual chen gallery, ccsu, new britain, ct (publication).
1998   
redivider, newspace gallery, mcc, manchester, ct.
1997   
twist and crawl, second street gallery, charlottesville, va.
1992   
recent allegations, real art ways, hartford, ct.

group exhibitions (selected):
2023 
Just Call Sol: The Legacy of Sol Lewitt, Art Gallery at ECSU, Willimantic, CT 
2022 
Ballots Not Bullets, Whitebox, New York, NY 
Conversational, Arts on the Lake, Kent Lakes, NY 
Borderlands, Kaiser Gallery, Cleveland, OH    
Proximity, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2021 
Working Through/Working Forward, Widner Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
2020
NOW, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Silk Flowers, Contemporary Art Galleries, UConn, Storrs, CT
Where's the Remote, https://www.sitstillprojects.com/past
Mill St, New Haven, CT.
2019
Portal: Governors Island, New York, NY.
Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY.
2018
Defining the Art of Change in the Age of Trump, CCPArt, Washington, DC. (catalogue)
Curmudgeon, ODETTA, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
Equators, AS220, Providence, RI; Space, Portland, ME. [collab with Tnmot Aztro Dance Co.]
2017
align-able angles, schelfhaudt gallery, univ of bridgeport, ct.
cool and collected, melanie carr gallery, essex, ct.
present danger, hewitt gallery, marymount manhattan college, new york. ny.
mincing words, institute library gallery, new haven, ct.
2016
MIEJSCE, a place, galleria foksal, warsaw, poland.
2015
violent nature, dehn gallery, manchester,ct.
borawski, fusigna, roleke, space B, brooklyn, ny.
2014-15
ct(un)bound, artspace, new haven, ct.  
TEMPEST, the institute library, new haven, ct.
2013
roadtrip, work-detroit, detroit, mi.
makers manual, the institute library, new haven, ct.
7th water tower arts festival, SAMCA, sofia, bulgaria.
2012
seen/unseen, wiseman gallery, rogue college, grants pass, or.
illuminated universe, artspace, new haven, ct.
2011
i think its conceptual, john slade ely house, new haven, ct.  
2009   
liquid, hans weiss newspace gallery, mcc, manchester, ct.
2007   
lineal investigations, housatonic museum, bridgeport, ct.
50,000 beds, aldrich museum/real art ways/artspace, ct (catalogue).
furious: the angry show, eyebeam, atlanta, ga.
2005   
innocent beauty-lolita, ag gallery, brooklyn, ny.
other america, exit art, new york, ny.
capturing utopia, fournos centre for digital culture, athens, gr
2000   
chance future, artpool art research center, budapest, hu
künstlerbanknoten, museum für moderne kunst, weddel, de
1999   
all mimsy were the borogoves, abc no rio, new york, ny.
1998   
disappearing act, leslie tonkonow artworks + projects, new york, ny.
material world, spaces, cleveland, oh.
1996   
copiacabana project, MEIAC, badajoz, es (robin kahn, curator).
Ideas Language Materials, john slade ely house, new haven, ct.
new work '96, artspace, new haven, ct (bill arning, juror).

video screenings (selected):
2011
b.y.o.b. (bring your own beamer), artspace, new haven, ct.
2011
ilghtworks 2011, grimsby minster, grimsby uk
2010
pixelpops! V6, outdoor locations in brooklyn, ny and newark, nj.   
what if? 60 x 60, axiom gallery, boston, ma.
magmart festival, pan screening program, palazzo delle arti, napoli, it
2006
the studio visit, exit art, new york, ny.

benefit and open exhibitions (selected):
2011
exchange with sol lewitt, mass moca, north adams, ma.
2010
instructions for initial conditions, drift station, lincoln, ne.
2004-present  
postcards from the edge, visual aids benefit, new york, ny.
2002   
free manifesta, frankfurter kunstverein, frankfurt am main, de
1994   
the first fundraising event, american fine arts co., new york, ny.
benefit exhibition and auction, the newmuseum, new york, ny.

grants and residencies:
2018
the artist's resource trust of the berkshire teconic community foundation, sheffield, ma.
2012/14
hartford arts & heritage jobs grant, city of hartford, ct
2008   
new boston fund individual artist fellowship, ghac, hartford, ct.
2001   
connemara conservancy foundation, dallas, tx (with Gil Scullion).
1999   
montserrat college of art, beverly, ma (with Gil Scullion).