Elena Borstein
Hartford, Connecticu, United States
26 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
New York City
Represented by
Works by Elena Borstein
Elena Borstein is an American artist born in 1946 who lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains, USA. She received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore College and her M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Professor Emerita from York College (CUNY). Borstein’s works are included in numerous major collections including: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Hayden Museum at MIT, Cam bridge, MA, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ. Her works has also been in many solo and group exhibitions both in this country and abroad including: American Realism at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Three Exhibits at the Bronx Museum, and New Acquisitions at the Everson Museum, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and the McNay Art Institute in San Antonio, Texas. She was also part of the Washington D.C. Corcoran Gallery’s traveling exhibition called The Liberation - 14 American Artists which traveled to 11 countries. Borstein is the recipient of a Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
Education
1970 B.F.A., M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania
1968 B.S. , Skidmore College
Grants and Awards
2000,1998,1996,1994 CUNY Research Award
1980 CAPS Grant
1980 NEA Grant
1979 Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Solo Exhibitons
2014 Atea Ring Gallery, “Details &Mashups”, Westport, NY
2013 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2012 Atea Ring Gallery “Built /Unbuilt” Recent Work, Westport,NY
2011 Retrospective:Illuminated Architecture:Elena Borstein’s Greek Work
Atea Ring Gallery , Westport ,NY
2010 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2009 Andre Zarre Gallery ,New York, NY
2009 Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project,NY
2008 Atea Ring Gallery,Westport,NY
2006 Atea Ring Gallery,Westport,NY
20 05 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2001 MuseumWest,Palo Alto , CA
2000 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Nahan Galleries, New York,NY
1992 Nahan Galleries, New York, NY
1991 Nahan Galleries, New York,NY
1989 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1987 J.J. Brookings Gallery , San Jose,CA
1987 Sazama /Brauer Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1985 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Martha White Gallery, Lexington,KY
1983 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1981 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1980 Squibb Museum, Princeton, NJ
1979 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1979 David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1978 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Max Protech Gallery, Washington, DC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 “40th Anniversary Show” Andre Zarre, Gallery, New York,NY
2014 “Attitudes”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
2013 “Summer Show”, Seraphin Gallery, Phila,PA
2010 “Abstractions” Scarlett Thicket Farm, Kennet Sq. PA
Diverse Interludes, Andre Zarre Gallery, NY,NY
2007 Viajeros:North American Artists’Images of Cuba, Miami/Dade University,Miami,Fl
2007 “4 Alumni” Schick Gallery,Skidmore College,Saratoga Springs ,NY
2005 Remedios, Cuba “LenteAmigo” (2 artists)
2005 Lehigh University,Bethlehem,PA,”Viajeros:Noth American
Artists/Photographers Images of Cuba”
2003 Gallery of Remedios, Remedios,Cuba,”Images of Cuba”
2001 Andre Zarre Gallery,New York,NY,”Pigment Parameters”
1999 Group Show, Coplan Gallery, Boca RAton, Fla
1997 Group Show, JJ Brookings Gallery, San Fransisco,Ca
The Web Gallery, New York , NY
1996 “ Patchwork”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1994 “20th Anniversary Exhibition, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York,
“Teamwork” ,Lehman College/Krasdale Foods, Bronx, NY
1993 “ The City Observed”,Bronx Museum of Art, Krasdale Foods,
“Combinations”, Andre Zarre Gallery,New York, NY
1992 Christmas Show”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
“Little Gems”, Nahan Gallery, New York, NY
1989 “Architectural Themes in Art”, Nabisco GAllery, Hanover, NJ
1988 “Four Painters”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York,.NY
1987 “Inaugural Exhibiton”, Sazama/Brauer Gallery, Chicago,IL
“Contemporary Light”, Kathryn Markel Gallery, NewYork,N.Y.
“Three NY Artists”, Sazama /Brauer Gallery, Chicago ,IL
“Contemporary Symbolist Sensibilities”,Bronx Museum of Art
1986 “Points of View” ,Bronx Museum of Art,Bronx, NY
1985 “American Realism” San Francisco Museum of Art, SF
“Photo-Synthesis”,1 Penn Plaza,New York,NY
“Point of View”, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1984 “Five from New York”, Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
“Variety and Quest in Current Painting”, Zolla/Lieberman ,IL
“Newscapes:Land& City State of Mind” One Penn Plaza, NY
1982 “Architectural Images in Contemporary Paintings”,Summit Art
Center, Summit, NJ
“Skidmore Invitational”, Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY
1981 “101 New Acquisitions” , Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, NY
“NY State Graphics Plus”, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,
Ithaca, NY
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
“Four New York Artists” Harriman College, Harriman, NY
1980 “Harmonious Contradictions”, Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca ,NY
l979 “Gifts of Drawing”,Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Differentials”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1978 “Personal Spaces”, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
“Fifth Anniversary Exhibition”, Andre Zarre Gallery, NY
“Women Artists ‘78”, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
1977 “Perspective ‘77”, Albright College,Reading, PA
“Group Show”, Allesandro Gallery, New York, NY
“Paintings and Works on Paper”, Andre Zarre Gallery,NY
1976 “The Liberation-14 American Artists”, CorcoraGallery/Aarhus
Kunstmuseum (Exhibition travelled to 9 countries)
“American Artists ‘76: A Celebration”, McNay Art Institute,San
Antonio,TX
“20 New York Artists”, University of Wisconsin, WI
1975 “Childe Hassam Purchase Fund Exhibit”, American Academy of
Arts and Letters
“Year of the Woman”, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
1974 “Point of View”, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
“New York Eleven”, C.W. Post College, Long Island,NY
“Contemporary Reflections”,Aldrich Museum of Fine Arts, CT
Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Hayden Museum, M.I.T.,Boston , MA
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport,CT.
American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York,NY
University of Idaho, Boise, ID
St. Marys College, Notre Dame, IN
York College, Jamaica, NY
Albright College, Reading ,PA
Prudential Insurance Co.,Newark, NJ
Security National Bank, Chicago,IL
Morgan Stanley Bank, New York,NY
Lehman Brothers,Kuhn, Loeb, New York, NY
F.M.C. Corporation, New York, NY
Squibb Corporation, Princeton, NJ
Amoco Corp. , Denver, CO
Gilbert & Tweed Associates, New York, NY
Whitco Chemical, Newark, NJ
Home Box Office, New York, NY
SouthEast Banking Corp. Miami, FL
Merril Lynch, New York, NY
Gollust,Tierney & Oliver, New York,NY
City College, CUNY
Ottawa Silica Corp.,Ottawa, IL
Columbia/Presbyterian Hospital
Vinson & Elkins
Merrill Lynch
JP Morgan Chase
Glenn Janns Collection
Selected Bibliography
2012 Illuminated Architecture essay by Janet Koplos ( Available on Amazon.com)
2009 “Summer Sails” Adirondack Life Magazine, July, p52-55
2005 “Viajeros: North Americanartist/Photographer’s Images of Cuba”.Ricardo Viera & Margarita Aguilar p.30-33
2001 Art in America, Jan. Janet Koplos ,”Elena Borstein at Andre Zarre”
1992 Hills, Patericia, The Mediterranean World of Elena Borstein”
1987 Art News, Jan. Gerritt Henry p. 144
New York Times, William Zimmer, “Views of City Life”
1986 “Americal Realism-20th Century Drawings and Watercolors”(From Glenn C. Janss Collection) cover, intro. Henry Hopkins, SFMOMA
Arts Magazine,Dec. Philip Verre,“Elena Borstein”p.10
San Jose Mercury, Dorothy Burkhart,”Elena Borstein at J.J. Brookings”
1982 Art Sources, “8 New York Artists”,Jacksonville,Fla.
1981 New York Arts Journal, Valerie Natsios
Graphics Plus, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca , N.Y.
Art Now
1980 The New York Times, David Shirey, “Architeecture to a Painters Eye”,March 16,
Art International, Vol XXIII/9, Nina FFrench-Frazier, Jan-Feb, p.47
Arts Magazine, Vol 54 no.6, Barbara Flug-Colon p.23
1979 Milwaukee Journal, Oct 21,James Auer, “Serenity Makes the Art Scene”
Architectral Images, Meg Raftis,Summit Art Center, N.J.
1978 Art News, Peter Frank, Oct.
Arts Magazine, Ellen Lubell, May
Arts Magazine, Edgar Buonagurio,Sept
New York Review of Art, p.122-123
1977 Arts Magazine, Oct , V. Tatransky
Perspective ‘77, Freedman Gallery, Albright College,PA
Womanart, By Elena Borstein, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Architects”p.4-5
Heresies, May
1976 The Liberation-4 Women Artists”,Jane Livingston, Corcoran Gallery
Whos Who in American Art - since 1976
International Whos Who of Women- since 1976
1974 Point of View,Goldwaite H. Dorr III,