Curator Statement:
Bianca Abdi- Boragi is a French/Algerian-American artist and curator. Her mission is to present exhibitions and interdisciplinary events at the intersection of various art forms. Through her exhibitions, Bianca investigates themes of territory, boundaries, gender, religion, and power and is interested in representing emerging and mid-career artists who explore these themes. Currently, Bianca is volunteering as one of the curators for the next edition in 2023 of The Immigrant Artist Biennial.
While earning her MFA at Yale school of art, Bianca worked for two years at the Yale University Art Gallery as a Curatorial Intern and Archivist for the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Archive. She contributed to the installation of two wall drawings at the Yale West Campus.
She was awarded the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights by the Yale School of Law in 2016, part of which included curating her first group exhibition at the EIK Yale School of Art Gallery called Say-so in Spring 2017. A component of this exhibition included a screening of the award-winning documentary Maktoub by the French-Tunisian filmmaker Sonia Ben Slama, whose work focuses on gender roles and the representation of women in film and Muslim society as the ideas of cultural fate and free will. Say-so featured artists: Mohamed Al Mohsin, Camille Altay, Selva Aparicio, Sula Bermudez, Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Loren Britton, Sonia Kessi, Young Joo Lee, Ilana Savdie, Iman Raad, Shahrzad Changalvaee, Walker Olensen, Ye Wang, Valentina Zamfirescu.
Bianca has also worked as a Manager at Castor Gallery, where she co-curated Stranger in a Strange Land in Winter 2018 with works by Deborah Brown, Art Cho, Ilana Savdie, Emma Stern.
In Spring 2018, she co-curated Data Spell with Jamie Martinez at The Border Project Space, a gallery dedicated to the representation of immigrant artists. This group exhibition featured Carlos Franco, Tatiana Istomina, Raza Kazmi, Ilana Savdie, and Masha Vlasova.
In Summer 2018, she curated OUTTHERE at Filosofi Arts, an exhibition featuring Robert Balun, Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Ricardo De Lima, Carlos Franco, Alex Jackson, Young Joo Lee, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Iman Raad, Stacy Scibelli, and Julio Williams. OUTTHERE took a cosmic perspective to explore the individual, the other, and meaning-making within the collective architectures of the 21st century, both globally and within the United States.
Invited in Summer 2018 by Zeit Contemporary Art, Abdi-Boragi curated Remote Light, an online painting show by Zoe Walsh. Immersive and unsettling, Remote Light connoted a sensual recollection of cinematic realities, like a memory, replayed and projected across the scrim of one's closed eyes.
In Spring 2019, Bianca co-curated Specter in the Threshold with Jamie Martinez at The Border Project Space, displaying works across media that illuminate haunting remnants. The Participating artists were Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Eliott De Cesare, KS Brewer, Paul Maheke, and Robert Balun.
Bianca Abdi- Boragi is a French/Algerian-American artist and curator. Her mission is to present exhibitions and interdisciplinary events at the intersection of various art forms. Through her exhibitions, Bianca investigates themes of territory, boundaries, gender, religion, and power and is interested in representing emerging and mid-career artists who explore these themes. Currently, Bianca is volunteering as one of the curators for the next edition in 2023 of The Immigrant Artist Biennial.
While earning her MFA at Yale school of art, Bianca worked for two years at the Yale University Art Gallery as a Curatorial Intern and Archivist for the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Archive. She contributed to the installation of two wall drawings at the Yale West Campus.
She was awarded the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights by the Yale School of Law in 2016, part of which included curating her first group exhibition at the EIK Yale School of Art Gallery called Say-so in Spring 2017. A component of this exhibition included a screening of the award-winning documentary Maktoub by the French-Tunisian filmmaker Sonia Ben Slama, whose work focuses on gender roles and the representation of women in film and Muslim society as the ideas of cultural fate and free will. Say-so featured artists: Mohamed Al Mohsin, Camille Altay, Selva Aparicio, Sula Bermudez, Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Loren Britton, Sonia Kessi, Young Joo Lee, Ilana Savdie, Iman Raad, Shahrzad Changalvaee, Walker Olensen, Ye Wang, Valentina Zamfirescu.
Bianca has also worked as a Manager at Castor Gallery, where she co-curated Stranger in a Strange Land in Winter 2018 with works by Deborah Brown, Art Cho, Ilana Savdie, Emma Stern.
In Spring 2018, she co-curated Data Spell with Jamie Martinez at The Border Project Space, a gallery dedicated to the representation of immigrant artists. This group exhibition featured Carlos Franco, Tatiana Istomina, Raza Kazmi, Ilana Savdie, and Masha Vlasova.
In Summer 2018, she curated OUTTHERE at Filosofi Arts, an exhibition featuring Robert Balun, Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Ricardo De Lima, Carlos Franco, Alex Jackson, Young Joo Lee, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Iman Raad, Stacy Scibelli, and Julio Williams. OUTTHERE took a cosmic perspective to explore the individual, the other, and meaning-making within the collective architectures of the 21st century, both globally and within the United States.
Invited in Summer 2018 by Zeit Contemporary Art, Abdi-Boragi curated Remote Light, an online painting show by Zoe Walsh. Immersive and unsettling, Remote Light connoted a sensual recollection of cinematic realities, like a memory, replayed and projected across the scrim of one's closed eyes.
In Spring 2019, Bianca co-curated Specter in the Threshold with Jamie Martinez at The Border Project Space, displaying works across media that illuminate haunting remnants. The Participating artists were Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Eliott De Cesare, KS Brewer, Paul Maheke, and Robert Balun.
