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2025-26 Internet of Trees Production and Exhibition, New York City Hall Park, NYC, USA Curator: Skip Blumberg 2021-23 Dundee COP26 Creative Climate Commission arts exhibition programme, Dundee, Scotland Curator: John Gray, Dundee Public Art Internet of Nature, Slessor Gardens Exhibition, Dundee City Council, Dundee City Centre (Oct 2021 – Dec 2023) 2021 Trees for Life, Outdoor arts film projection, Whitehall House, Yeaman Shore, Dundee City Centre (November 2 – 12) Artist in residence, Darts Hill Gardens, British Columbia, Canada (Feb – Nov 2021) Program curator: Susan Murray 2019 Through the Lens, Arbutus Gallery, Kwantlen University, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada Jan 14 - Feb 14 2018-2019 Centre for Active Living, Richmond, BC 2017 Kissing Project, Oxygen Arts Centre, British Columbia, Canada June 6 -July 8 | catalog Murals, Serde Arts Centre, Aizpute, Latvia 2016 Shinty Shortbread, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Scotland 2015 Revisiting a Holiday in Glenrothes, The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture and Design | Produced by the Scottish Civic Trust | March 28 - May 8, 2015 2013 - 14 Camera Histories, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, Scotland, Curated by Malcolm Dickson | Exhibition leaflet November 22, 2013 - February 2, 2014 Aerial Fields, Surrey Urban Screen, BC September 8, 2013 - January 6, 2014 Curated by Liane Davison and Alison Rajah 2012 Beyond Sight: Interrogations of a Camera, A&D Gallery, London, UK CHURCHES IN-NI, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Curated by Karen Downey (catalog) 2009-10 Cameras and Watercolour sunsets, CSA Space, Vancouver, Canada Curated by Christopher Brayshaw 2008 A Holiday in Glenrothes, Royal Institute of Architect’s Scotland Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Traveling to Glenrothes, Rothes Hall Galleries, Fife, Scotland 2007 EK Modernism, CSA Space, Vancouver, Canada Curated by Adam Harrison 2006 EK Modernism: New Town Passages, EKAC Galleries, East Kilbride, Scotland (book publication in conjunction with LightHouse Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland) 2005 New works, East Kilbride Arts Centre, Scotland 2004 Minimalist Portraits, Net Art Launch, SAW Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario (catalogue) Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC (catalogue) 2002 Capital Cities, Centre A, Vancouver, BC (solo, catalog) 1999 In Transit, Pocket Gallery, Vancouver, BC (catalog) 1996 Of Myth and Muse, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC (catalog) GROUP 1997 Conceived on Christmas Invitational Show , The Print Room, Photographer's Gallery, London, UK Configuration, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC (catalog) Curated by Christopher Brayshaw Apples and Oranges, Atrium Gallery, Hongkong Bank of Canada, Vancouver, BC (brochure) Curated by Tom Graff 1996 The Japanese Suite, The Print Room, The Photographer's Gallery, London, England 1995 Off The Wall, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1994 Space/14, Vancouver House Exhibition Space, Vancouver, BC Classic Shot, FotoBase Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Curated by Ann Rosenberg 1990 Shared Visions, Shared Concerns, Hongkong Bank of Canada, Vancouver, BC (catalog) 1988 Photoperspectives '88, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC Curated by Robert Keziere |
GROUP
2024-2025
After the Time machine – Insights into the Future, Winter 2024, Curator: Art Against Global System Venues: C3 Science Centre UNAM, University of Mexico; Art Against Global System Festival, Mexico, and MUSLAB Exhibition Centre, Ecuador 2024 Now and Then: Part III Exhibition: Clare Gallagher, David Copeland, Eoghan McTigue, Eslam Abd El Salam. Frédéric Huska, Jill Quigley, Paul Seawright, Philip Arneill, Shannon Ritchie, Sylvia Grace Borda, Victor Sloan, Victoria J Dean, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Northern Ireland (September 5 -21, 2024) Curator: Dr. Jose Luis Neves 2024 Future Memoria, Surrey Art Gallery, BC, Canada (June 22 – August 25) Curator: Rhys Edwards 2024 Complex Planet, The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University, New Jersey, USA (January 17 – April 7, 2024) Curator: Art Against Global Systems 2023-2024 Making Space: Photographs of Architecture, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK (Oct 7, 2023 - March 3, 2024) Curator: Louise Pearson, Photographic Collections, NGS Crisis Gaia, C3 Complexity Science Center, Circuito Centro Cultural, Cd. Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico City (Dec 2023-Feb2024) Curator: Manolo Cocho, Vasja Nagy 2022-2023 Earth Photo: People, Place, Nature, Changing Forests in a Time of Climate Change; Curators: Royal Geographical Society, Forestry England, Harris Parker || Venues: Royal Geographic Society Headquarters and Exhibition Hall, London, UK June 17 - August 26 The Great Exhibition Road Festival, Royal Geographic Society Pavilion, London, June 18-19, 2022 Fineshade Wood, Top Lodge, Fineshade, Northamptonshire, November 1 – March 27 2023 Select contributor/collaborator to Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s NFT project, Feral File, CHAIN REACTION, Ethereum Platform, March 8, NYC Curator: Christiane Paul 2022 Terra in Transformazione, Magazzino 26, Porto Vecchio, Trieste, Italy (catalogue) (September 2-24) Curators: Maria Campitelli, Manolo Cocho Über Globales, Endemie, Gaia und Krise, SKICA Wien - SOHO studios, Liebknechtgasse, Vienna, Austria (Sept 20-30, 2022) Curator: Manolo Cocho Tree Circle: Performing for Flora, Trees for Life presentation at PERA+FLORA+FAUNA Pavilion, Venice Biennale (April 21, 2022) Curator: Khaled Ramadan Tree Circle, permanent outdoor earth observation artwork launched at Gullele National Botanic Gardens of Ethiopia, Addis https://earth.google.com/web/search/9.0785%c2%b0+N,+38.7209%c2%b0+E/@9.0725684,38.72126403,2653.93190032a,146.47746795d,35y,131.27474834h,0t,0r/data=CigiJgokCaDBKyo4lRxAEQlxNSnrVxxAGaqtdCNdZUNAIerP4NVIXkNA Curators: Nura Beshir, Women4Climate and Guelle National Botanic Gardens Lumen Prize Exhibition: Shortlisted Projects, Barbican Arts Centre, London, UK (October 19, 2022) Curator Futures Prize : Christiane Paul, NYC 2021 Trees for Life Project, British Council COP26 Creative Climate Commission exhibitions England: London British Council & City of London Corporation Curators: Rosanna Lewis, Celia Barron Paternoster Square, St Paul’s Cathedral (1 to 11 November) Aldgate Square, Aldgate High St (12 to 29 November) Guildhall Yard, Gresham Street (30 November to 7 December) Scotland: Glasgow Curator: Rosanna Lewis COP26, Blue Zone (delegates), British Council Pavilion, UN Meetings (30 October – November 7) Permanent outdoor earth observation artworks in Kofele, West Arsi District, Oromia, Ethiopia Tree Circle Gofingira Gurmicho, October 26 Lion: Living Climate Artwork, October 28 Tree Circle Usula Moke, December 30 Curator: Hussein Watta, Rural Organization for the Betterment of Agropastoralists, Ethiopia 2020 Where we have been, 45th Anniversary Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery (Sept 19 – Dec 13, 2020) Curator: Rhys Edwards 2019 Artist Program, Light Sensitive Material conference, University of West London, UK (Nov1-2) Curators: Professor Michelle Henning, Dr Junko Theresa Mikuriya 2018 The Enduring Town Art of Glenrothes, curated by Andrew Demetrius, Rothes Halls and St Andrew’s University, Scotland (October 20 – November 22, 2018) catalog 10 from the North | 10 bho Tuath: Patricia Macdonald, Sophie Gerrard, Karen Vaughan, Margaret Mitchell, Sylvia Grace Borda, Miriam Chefrad, Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte. Sigga Ella, Andrea Gjestvang, Iiu Susiraja, An Lanntair Exhibition Centre, Outer Hebrides, Scotland Curated by Katherine Parhar and Alex Boyd, Presented as part of the FLOW Festival of Photography 2017 Art and Ecology Collective, Exhibition and Launch, Glasgow Sites of Assembly, Helen and Morris Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Canada Home/Shelter/Belonging: Sylvia Grace Borda, Jim Breukelman, Germaine Koh, Hani Al Moulia, Annie Pootoogook, Itee Pootoogook, Gu Xiong, Exhibition curated by Robin Laurence and Darrin Morrison (July 19 – September 9) West Vancouver Museum: Art, Design + Architecture, BC Edge Effects II, Frontiers in Retreat (Lumsden Biscuit presentation), Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Guest Curated by Yvonne Billmore, SSW July 28-31, 2017 Glasgow Women's Library Group exhibition, Scotland Summer Exhibition, Mustarinda Arts Society, Finland Lumen Prize Digital Arts Tour 2017: Canary Wharf Winter Festival, London, UK; FQ Projects, Shanghai, China; Leeds Digital Art Festival, UK; New York City’s Creative Tech week, USA 2016 -17 Presentation of EK Modernism and A Holiday in Glenrothes as part of Scotland Through the Lens: 175 years of documentary photography at St Andrew’s University, Scotland (Sept 2, 2016 – April 5, 2017) curated by Rachel Nordstrom and presented as part of the inaugural launch of the annual St Andrew's Photography Festival. 2016 Lumen Prize, Digital Arts Tour 2016: Hackney House, London, UK; Cardiff Technology Centre, UK; Berlin Electronic Visualisation Conference, Germany; Caerphilly Castle, Wales Man-Made Art, A+D Gallery, London, UK (Jan 11 – February 22, 2016) 2015 Summer show, Photographs and prints. A&D Gallery, London, UK Guest curated by Maika | July 16 - Aug 30 Mantta Summer Exhibition: a new present || uusi nykyisyys Curators: Kalle Hamm & Dzamil Kamanger June 13 - August 31, 2015 A Sense of Place, Oulu Art Museum, Finland January 23 - March 15, 2015 Curator: Helka Ketonen Cultural Productions, SERDE Residency, Latvia September 2015 Views from the Southbank: Information, Objects, Mapping, Surrey Art Gallery, BC (September 19 - Dec 13, 2015) Curator: Jordan Strom (w catalogue) 2014 Residency: Frontiers in Retreat workshop, Helsinki International Artist Programme, Finland Curator: Jenni Nurmenniemi & Nuno Sacremento 2013 Figuring Ground: Sylvia Grace Borda and Jeremy Herndl, Surrey Art Gallery, BC September 21 - December 15 Curated by Jordan Strom NORTHERN IRELAND: 30 Years of Photography, Belfast Exposed Gallery and the MAC, 10 May - 7 July 2013 Curated by Karen Downey, Catalog by Colin Graham Blueprint, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, Scotland February 2 - March 31, 2013 Catalog essay by Malcolm Dickson 2012 Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and The Serial Image, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada Curated by Jordan Strom Zoo Art Sculptural Biennale, Cueno, Italy 2011 Seeing and Being in the Landscape, Blue Wall Gallery, Ireland Curated by Joe Keenan 2010 Scoping Worlds, Leitrim Scultpure Centre, Ireland Curated by Sean O'Reilly 2009-10 Glocal, Cultural Capital of Canada Artist Project, Tech Lab, Surrey Art Gallery (catalog) 2008 ‘(Not) A Photograph’ Exhibition Obalne Galerije, Piran, Slovenia Curated by Vasja Nagy re-COLLECT-ing, Naughton Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland (catalog) 2007 Subversive Cartography, National web launch – Virtual Net Art,Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario Curated by Michael Alstad and Daniel Young (catalog) Proun series, HZ Net Gallery (curated by Sachiko Hayashi) Two Chicken Noodle, Barcode Series, Digital Fringe, Melbourne National web launch – Virtual Net Art , Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario (catalog) Curated by Michael Alstad and Daniel Young Node.London’06, Media Arts Festival and exhibition (catalog) 2005 Pixelware, Travelling exhibition: Dazibao Gallery, Montreal and Photographer’s Gallery, Toronto (catalog) Pixelware, a sublime forgery is a collaborative project curated by Dazibao, France Choinière and Marisa Portolese, and Gallery 44, Sara Angelucci and Elaine Whittaker. 2004 Ruins and Civilization: Stan Douglas, Antonia Hirsch, Sylvia Grace Borda, International art exhibition, Eslite Vision Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan (catalog) Curated by Amy Cheng 2003 Pula off - 50. Pula film festival [20.7.2003 - 5.8.2003] curated by Branka Bencic for the Museum of Contemporary art, Zagreb and 50. Pula film festival. (catalog) 2002 Digital Scans, University of California Riverside, California Museum of Photography (web catalog) Present (MFA Graduate Exhibition), Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia (catalog) |
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & LECTURES
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2023 Speaker, Understanding Scottish Modernist Vernacular Architectures, National Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland Oct 12, 2023
Speaker, Climate Change, Arts and Media, RE:SOURCE: 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy September 13, 2023 Chair: Francesca Franco Board/Selection committee: Andreas Broeckmann, Leuphana Universität; Sean Cubitt, University of Melbourne; Oliver Grau, MediaArt), Inge Hinterwaldner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Erkki Hutamo, University of California, Paul Thomas, University of New South Wales City of Vancouver Heritage Program, Hollywood Theatre, Vancouver, BC, May 15,2023 2022 Presenter & Chair: ‘Picturing Climate Change: Trees for Life project launch’ with speakers and collaborators: Kenton Fisher (NASA), Dr Mugo (SERVIR-Kenya, NASA), Hussein Watta (Rural Assoc. for AgroPastoralists), John Gray (Dundee City), Sylvia Borda, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, March 21, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttJuXmJmPA Presenter: The benefits of using the visual arts to support climate adaptation and awareness, Integrating disciplines and knowledge sectors with new thinking and innovation Panel, Ecocities World Forum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, February 22, 2022 Speaker, Observation and Acts of Language and Art (Sylvia Grace Borda, Jemal Wako, Khaled Ramadan) Okanagan College, November 17, 2023 Chair: Amy Mohal https://www.okanagan.bc.ca/event/9949-panel-talk-observation-and-acts-of-language-and-art 2021 Interview, Close-Up: Photography, Ecologies, Sylvia Grace Borda, Street Level Photoworks. Glasgow, Moderated by Christian Monarchi, Photomonitor UK, March 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvbdsJxDefo Workshop Presenter, Climate Communication and Design Thinking in the Arts, Women4Climate, European Chapter (March 12) Presenter, Understanding fruit tree histories, Vancouver Fruit Tree Project (May 24) Keynote, Art, Apples and Celebrations of Farming, Apple Festival, UBC Botanic Gardens (October 13) 2020 Women4Climate Change: Creating effective climate communication through the Visual Arts Vancouver Council of Women, October 5, 2020 (webinar) Where did all the apples go? Artist’s Presentation,Derby Park Regional Heritage Apple Festival, Zoom October 7, 2020 Panel and Workshop Chair, Community Engagement and the Arts, University Arts Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual conference (webinar), October 17 Artist’s Presentation, Canadian Culinary Imaginations Book launch, KPU and McGill University Press, Book Launch, November 2, 2020 (Webinar) 2019 Arts, Science and Nature: In Conversation, Science World Speaker with support from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC (January 29) 2018 The Kissing Challenge, Visual Arts Speaker Series, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC (October 26) Re-imagining Place-making, Ecology and Campus Life,Speakers: Sylvia Borda, Lee Beavington, and J. Keith Donnelly, Interactive Workshop, Teaching and Learning Symposium Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC (May 3) 2017 Art in Rural Climes, Upstream Benefit – Rural Art Symposium, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC (November 25, 2017) Kissing Trail Project Launch, Upstream Benefit – Rural Art Symposium, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC (November 24, 2017) Artist presentation: What has happened to the camera?, photographies Conference, University of Westminster, London, UK (May 17, 2017) Chaired by Liz Wells and David Bate The Kiss in Art from Intimate to Political, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC (February 18, 2017) 2016 'Examining the Visual Arts as part of public debate and wider conservation: Farm Tableaux' International Union for Conservation of Nature, World Congress Forum, Hawaii, USA (September 3, 2016) 'To like? Digital era image making' Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, Canada (April 26, 2016) Artist presentation, Art after Dark: the Urban Screen ~ Surrey Art Gallery, BC Parks and Recreation Annual Conference, Whistler, Canada (April 27, 2016) Helsinki Photomedia Week, March 30, 2015 Keynote: Food and Art, Canadian Culinary Imaginations Symposium, Melville Centre for Dialogue, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond, BC (February 20, 2016) 2015 Food and art – it’s all good for you, University of Helsinki, September 28, 2015 Learning about Food through Art History, presentation for Finn Foods, Oulu Art Museum ( January 27, 2015) Artist roundtable and dialogue with Meri Ojanen (MTK), Oulu Art Museum (January 24, 2015) Scientific pictures of plants – a history of photography and art, workshop and demonstration for MSL, Oulu Art Museum (January 24, 2015) Why EK Modernism matters? Presented as part of Absorbing Modernity Panel: Architecture and Design Scotland for Venice Biennale (March 17, 2015) Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland |
2014
Absorbing Modernity, Panelist, British Council for Venice Biennale for Architecture, Northern Ireland (October 25, 2014) The roots of nature and art: Exploring the National Galleries of Canada Flora & Fauna exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, BC (October 4, 2014) An artist’s interpretation from Vancouver to Finland, Center for Sustainable Studies, Green Speaker Series Autumn Launch, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC (Sept 25,2014) Helsinki International Arts Program Peer to Peer: Sylvia Grace Borda and Laura McLean, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland, April 3, 2014 2013 Artist roundtable and discussion with Christiane Monarchi, Photomonitor UK (Nov 23, 2013), Street Level Photoworks Artist TV Interview: Summerhall TV, November 10, 2013 http://vimeo.com/80559198 'Facing the camera' Artist Presentation, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland (Oct 22, 2013) ‘This one’s for the Farmer’ Artist Presentation in tandem with BC Young Farmer’s Association and the Surrey Urban Market, Surrey Art Gallery, BC (October 10, 2013) Artist roundtable: Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography The Mac, Belfast (May 17, 2013) Artist Talk: Agency of Light: Street Level Photo works Gallery, Glasgow, UK 2012 Artist Talk: Camera Art, University of Iasi, Romania (December 8, 2013) Artist Talk, Daniel Blau Gallery, London, UK (October 25, 2012) Artist presentation, City of Richmond Public Art Board Artist Talk, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Northern Ireland (February 10, 2013) 2011 Chair, Photography and the Artist’s Book Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University Artist roundtable participant, Scottish Sculpture Workshop + Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCam), Ireland “Public Cultures and the Commons 2011” Artist Presentation and Law Panel, A & D Gallery, London, UK Visual Arts Chair & Panelist, Contemporary Arts in Northern Ireland, European Irish Studies Conference, Manchester, UK2010 Artist presentation, Electronic Visual Arts conference, London, UK Keynote, Visual Arts Ireland (Belfast and Dublin) conference Artist presentation, Graduate Studies, Media School, University of Ulster 2009 Artist Presentation, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Artist presentation, Image and Text, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Belfast Artist Presentation, Glocal – Cultural Capital of Canada Project, Surrey Art Gallery, BC 2008 Architecture Foundation, London, England: Panelist with Sir Peter Hall and Derek Walker Workshop presentation about Glocal and Picture-Text at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Balkans Exhibition: A Space for Dialogue 2006 Artist talk, Re:Mote exhibition (Curated by Adam Hyde), ISEA 2006, San Jose, USA Artist talk - CCA (Centre for Contemporary Art), Glasgow, Scotland Artist panelist with Charlie Gere, Jon Ippolito and Honor Hager - CRUMB: Newcastle Art Forum, England (June 3, 2006) Keynote panelist: Digital Arts Media Roundtable, College Arts Association, Boston, MA, USA 2005 Presenter: Refresh Conference, Banff New Media Institute and Humboldt University Berlin: Banff Centre, Canada Guest Speaker: 80th Anniversary Open House: Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada Moderator and Keynote Guest Speaker, Resonance Roundtable, South Lanarkshire Arts, Rutherglen, Scotland Guest Presenter: Electronic Media Group (Stanford) AIC, Minneapolis, USA) Guest Lecturer: Department of Art History, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 2004 Artist and Moderator: Reflections on Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC Art roundtable City of Surrey, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada Curator’s talk and discussion: Electronic Social Culture Exhibition, A Space, Toronto, Canada Artist presentation, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada MUTATIONS < > CONNECTIONS Cultural (Ex)Changes in Asian Diasporas International Symposium and exhibition Centre A (June2-5, 2005): Chair and guest speaker National Research Council, Institute for Information Technology: Keynote speaker University of Ottawa and ArtEngine Association: Guest speaker 2003 Keynote comments and speaker panelist: Skinning Our Tools Conference, Banff New Media Institute (BNMI), Canada Photographer and writer's discussion about HG Cox: Athens on the Fraser exhibition, Presentation House Gallery, Canada 2002 Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) BRIDGES Consortium Two Theme: Cross-Disciplinary Guest panelist: 4th International Cuban Digital Art Symposium Art Perceptions, Havana,Cuba Guest Speaker: 02.02. Digital Dystopias, Dept of Art History, University of California Los Angeles, USA 2001 Guest Speaker: “New Media in Conservation Reporting” Pacific Conservation Group, Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Canada Panelist and Presenter: Museums and the Web 2001, Seattle, Washington, 1998 Guest Panelist: The Ultimate Community Experience - Virtual Exhibitions, Museum Computer Network Conference '98, Los Angeles, CA, USA 1997 Guest Presenter: The Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography, London, England --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project reviews are listed here To view a complete artist profile including articles, chapters and seminars delivered by Sylvia see http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sylvia-grace-borda/4/24b/832 To examine earlier examples of artwork produced by the artist prior to 2007, visit www.sylviagraceborda.com |