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    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2020
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    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2010-12
  • Interrogations of a Camera
  • This is not a camera
  • Impressions
  • Seeing Technologies
  • Northern Ireland
    • Coming to the Table
    • Orchards
  • Kissing Project
  • Past Projects
    • Public Art Commission: Number 4 Pump Station
    • Community Engagement: Seeing Across Boundaries
    • Public Art Commission: Cuneo Camera Obscura
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    • Request a lecture
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  • Exhibition History
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  • Camera Histories
  • Momento Mori
  • Stereoworks
    • Two if not Three
    • Aura
    • Viewpoints
    • This is not a camera
  • re-COLLECT-ing
  • EK Modernism
    • EK Modernism series
    • Project legacies
    • Canada series
  • A Holiday in Glenrothes
  • Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC
  • This one's for the farmer
  • Social engagement
  • Lumsden Biscuit
    • Social Enterprise
    • Edible photograph
  • What are you doing Richmond
  • Snow Cameras
  • Hunting Cameras
  • Architecture
  • Digital Art
  • Shifting Perspectives Book
                                                                  | |  EXHIBITION HISTORY   | |
SOLO
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
The Lumsden Biscuit, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, 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

2021
Temples to Tenements, National Galleries of Scotland
Curator: Louise Pearson

2020
45th Anniversary Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, BC (Sept-Dec) Curated by Rhys Edwards

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 (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  | catalog
    
A Sense of Place, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
January 23 - March 15, 2015
Curator: Helka
Ketonen  | catalog

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

Digital Cultures, Museum of Finnish Photography, Helsinki, Finland

2013
Figuring Ground: Sylvia Grace Borda and Jeremy Herndl,
Surrey Art Gallery, BC September 21 - December 15, 2013
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
2020

Challenging Climate change through the Arts, Adaptation Canada 2020 conference, Vancouver, BC (Feb 20)

Avant La Lettre - Photography and Botany, Webinar Speaker, Botanic Gardens, University of British Columbia (May 6)


Objects and Events: Histories of Art and Science explained through past observational tools and processes, Invited Webinar Speaker, Brock House, Vancouver (June 23)

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 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 Biennal
e  (March 17, 2015) Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland

2014
Peer to Peer Panel Discussion, Finnish Museum of Photography (April 3, 2014)
2013

Artist Talk and presentation with Photomonitor UK at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, UK (November 24, 2013)

Artist Talk and presentation with the Young Farmer's Association at Surrey Art Gallery, BC, (October 10, 2013)

Artist Talk: Sylvia Grace Borda and Colin Gray in Dialogue, Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Glasgow, UK

Artist Talk: The Agency of Light, Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2012           
Artist Talk: Daniel Blau Gallery, London, UK (October 25, 2012)

Artist Talk: Belfast Exposed Gallery, Northern Ireland

2011           
Chair: Photography and the Artist’s Book Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University

Roundtable participant: Scottish Sculpture Workshop + Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCam), Ireland “Public Cultures and the Commons 2011”

Artist Presentation+Law Panel, A & D Gallery, London, UK

Visual Arts Chair & Panelist, Contemporary Arts in Northern Ireland - European Irish Studies Conference, Manchester, UK

2010           
Artist presentation: Electronic Visual Arts conference, London, UK

Keynote: Visual Arts Ireland (Belfast and Dublin) conference

Artist presentation: Cavan County Council Public Arts

Artist presentation: Hear About It, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Northern Ireland

Artist presentation: University of Ulster (Guest of Paul Seawright)

2009            
Artist presentation: University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Artist presentation: Image and Text, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Artist presentation: Glocal – Cultural Capital of Canada Project, Surrey Art Gallery, BC, Canada







2008           
Panelist with Sir Peter Hall and Derek Walker, New New Town Conference London Architecture Foundation, London, England

Cultural Capital of Canada Award for Community Arts Delivery, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada

Workshop presentation about Glocal and Picture-Text at Balkans Exhibition: A Space for Dialogue the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
​
2007           
Guest Panelist: Public Art Policy Session - Robert Gray’s School of Art in conjunction with Scottish Arts Council at Scottish Parliament, Holyrood -Edinburgh, Scotland

Guest Panelist: Invisible Dynamics Conference, Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA Moderated by Peter Richards

Curator’s Talk: EastKilbride.uk<>Surrey.ca Suburban Exchange: Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada

EK Modernism – Writer’s Reception and Book Launch, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Canada

2006           

Led series of artist lectures and built environmental walking tours: Architecture Week (Glasgow) at the LightHouse Gallery, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture
      
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
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  • Mise en Scene
    • Mise en Scene
  • Farm Work
  • Farm Tableaux - Google Street View
  • Aerial Fields
  • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2020
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2017-19
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2013-14
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2010-12
  • Interrogations of a Camera
  • This is not a camera
  • Impressions
  • Seeing Technologies
  • Northern Ireland
    • Coming to the Table
    • Orchards
  • Kissing Project
  • Past Projects
    • Public Art Commission: Number 4 Pump Station
    • Community Engagement: Seeing Across Boundaries
    • Public Art Commission: Cuneo Camera Obscura
  • Artist Bio
    • Artist Bio
    • Teaching Practice
    • Public Speaking
    • Request a lecture
    • Purchasing Art
  • Exhibition History
    • Exhibition History
    • Reviews
  • Contact
  • News
  • Camera Histories
  • Momento Mori
  • Stereoworks
    • Two if not Three
    • Aura
    • Viewpoints
    • This is not a camera
  • re-COLLECT-ing
  • EK Modernism
    • EK Modernism series
    • Project legacies
    • Canada series
  • A Holiday in Glenrothes
  • Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC
  • This one's for the farmer
  • Social engagement
  • Lumsden Biscuit
    • Social Enterprise
    • Edible photograph
  • What are you doing Richmond
  • Snow Cameras
  • Hunting Cameras
  • Architecture
  • Digital Art
  • Shifting Perspectives Book