BIANCA ABDI-BORAGI
Born in Paris, France; lives in Brooklyn, NY
Works in NY
EDUCATION
2017 MFA Yale School of Art, Sculpture, New Haven, CT
2009 BFA Sculpture, National Superior School of Arts of Paris- Cergy, France
2005 Classe Préparatoire, Ateliers des Beaux- Arts de Paris, La Glacière, France
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Pioneer Works, New York, NY (August 2022 to February 2023)
2019 NARS Foundation, New York, NY
2017 MASS MoCA, Assets for Artists, Residency, North Adams, MA
2016 Art and Human Rights Law Fellowship -- Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Right
2015 Yale School of Art full scholarship recipient
2009 Feldstarke Travel Fellowship,
Centquatre Residency, Paris, France
Pact Zollverein Residency, Essen, Germany
2010 CalArts Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2006 National Superior School of Arts Paris, France full scholarship recipient
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Clairvoyant, Ceysson & Bénètiere gallery (UPCOMING)
Banat El Hara, Selva gallery, NY
A Private Viewing, Charmoli Ciarmoli Gallery, NY
Invisible Bodies, Penn University, curated by Emireth Herrera and The Border Space Project, Pennsylvania
2023 Bodies, Bronx Art Space, curated by Amanda Johnson, NY
Whispers, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, curated by Emireth Herrera, NY
Here, There, screening, curated by Sarah Lasley, Designhaus Damrstadt, Germany
Wildflowers, The Artist Gardener, curated by Bruna D'Alessandro, NY
Secret Show, SPRING/Break Art show Salon, New York, NY
Bodies | Object | Product | Agency, curated by Amanda Johnson, Triangle Loft, New York, NY
Body Memory, GHOSTMACHINE, New York, NY
Horizons, curated by Natasha Roberts, Central Park Tower, New York, NY
2022 Vector, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Naked Lunch, SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW, New York, NY
Bodily Integrity, The Border space Project, New York, NY
Phone Home, Ukraine Fundraiser, Grace Exhibition Space, New York, NY
Ors, Occupy Art Project, French Consulate, New York, NY
2021 Uniforms for the End of Time, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Dough, Hera Gallery, South Kingstown, RI,
Hearsay: Heresy, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
Staying Inn, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Din Din's Missing Luncheon, Flux Factory, New York, NY
Checkerboard Borders: Films of the Global South, online, Wofford College
Sexy Sex, Online, Gallery Perchée
2020 The Heel of the Loaf, The Border Project Space, New York, NY _SOLO
The Imminent Arrival, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, TIAB, New York, NY
CADAF, Contemporary and Digital Art Fair, SOLO
March of Time, Friday Studio Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Video Object, Video Snack VII, VCU Arts, Grace St Theater, Richmond, VA
Commingling: Dialogues, ZXY Gallery, New York, NY
Ex Abrupto Film Festival, Nomadic Collective Art, Moià, Spain
Here: A Bit of Everywhere and Everyone They've Been, NARS Foundation, New York, NY
Specter in the Threshold, The Border Project Space, New York, NY
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Comisionado Dominicano, New York, NY
2018 Talking Pictures, 106 Van Buren, New York, NY
For Lease, Call for Details, Creative Space for Lease, Los Angeles, CA
OUTTHERE, Filo Sofi Art, New York, NY
Intricate Neighbor II, Galerie Protégé, New York, NY
Intricate Neighbor, The Border Project Space, New York, NY
Video Now Now Now 2018, Herman B. Wells Library, Bloomington, IN
Fig de Barbary, New-York Forum of Amazigh Film, awarded 2nd best short, La Guardia Center for Performing Arts, New York, NY
2017 Interact, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center, New York, NY
Say- so, EIK Gallery, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
MFA Thesis show, Green Hall Gallery, New haven, CT
Mutocospio Film Festival , Puebla, Mexico
Ladies Eat Cakes, Girl on Girl Collective, Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY
New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archive, 2017, New York, NY
Yale Student Film Festival, Yale Film Alliance, New Haven, CT
2016 Esoteric Rodeo, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
Merry Goes Round, Yve Yang Gallery, Boston, MA
Me Gusta el Sonido, Art Space, New Haven, CT
Arts Mixer, Afro- American Cultural Center, New Haven, CT
Benefit Auction, Field Project Gallery, New York, NY
Expo 35, BJ Spoke Galley, curated by Mary Potter, NY
Feminist Cineclub, Algiers, Algeria
Translations- Kolkata, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata, India
Yale Student Film Festival, Whitney Humanity Center, New Haven, CT
Genealogies, curated by John Edmond, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2015 The Gates Are Open, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
Video Mixer, curated by Allyn Hughes, Green Hall Gallery New Haven, CT
Katra Film Series, New-York, NY
The Portrait Collection, Fifth Annual Exposure Award, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Future Memories, Reconstruction of New Identities, Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, 2015, Venice, Italy
Translations, curated by Geraldine Ondrizek, Feldenheimer Gallery, Portland, OR
Tributary, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Material Matters, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Inside Out, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR
Making Space, Gibney Gallery, New York, NY
The SEED, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Contextiles-Isations, Kalopsia Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Videorover 7, Pratt DDA Gallery, New York, NY
Last Minute but Forever First, Parenthesis Art Space, New York, NY
Videorover 7, NURTUREart Gallery, 2014, New York, NY
2010 Digital Chiaroscuro, Brooklyn Fireproof, New York, NY
Occupation, Louvrais Theatre, Cergy, France
Chapitre V, Le Voyage des Plantes, Maubuisson Abbey Art Center, France
PERFORMANCE
2016 Workin Like A, Yve Yang Gallery, Merry goes Round, Boston, MA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Inside the Art Show atop the Tallest Penthouse in New York, Artsy
A New Summit for Women: Natasha Roberts Curates Group Exhibition Inside NYC’s Highest Penthouse, Create Magazine
Art Seen Body Memory, by Emireth Herrera, The Brooklyn Rail, NY
2022 5 Booths to Watch at SPRING/BREAK Art Show’s 2022 New York Edition, Cultbytes Magazine, NY
The Standout Booths at Spring Break Art Show 2022 and Their Artists/Curators, Quiet Lunch, NY
2021 With a Medieval Flair Spring Break Art Show Celebrates the Eccentric, Hyperallergic, NY
Earthly Delights, ANTE mag
2020 The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020, Here Together! Virtual Exhibitions, Exhibition Catalogue, Co-Curated by Katya Grokhovsky, Mary Annunziata, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Allison Cannella
The Immigrant Artist Biennial: Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Artspiel
The Heel of the Loaf, Editor's pick of the week, Artnet
Temp Editions 02: What got left in the future, Taggverk Magazine
2017 Workin Like A, Emergency Index Volume 6, Ugly Duckling Press
2016 Volume 13, Cotton Candy, Smoking Glue Guns, Poetry & Arts Magazine
Found in Translation, The Telegraph
2015 Interview Bianca Boragi, Its Liquid
The Portraiture Collection, Fifth Annual Exposure Award
Telephone, Satellite Press Editorial, Online Exhibition
Translations, Emergent Art Space
2014 Bianca Boragi, Emergent Art Space
Bianca Boragi, Fine Art Vue, Verum Ultimum Gallery
New York Based Artist Bianca Boragi, Kalopsia Collective
Videorover 7, Artforum
Digital Chiaroscuro, Arts in Bushwick
Born in Paris, France; lives in Brooklyn, NY
Works in NY
EDUCATION
2017 MFA Yale School of Art, Sculpture, New Haven, CT
2009 BFA Sculpture, National Superior School of Arts of Paris- Cergy, France
2005 Classe Préparatoire, Ateliers des Beaux- Arts de Paris, La Glacière, France
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Pioneer Works, New York, NY (August 2022 to February 2023)
2019 NARS Foundation, New York, NY
2017 MASS MoCA, Assets for Artists, Residency, North Adams, MA
2016 Art and Human Rights Law Fellowship -- Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Right
2015 Yale School of Art full scholarship recipient
2009 Feldstarke Travel Fellowship,
Centquatre Residency, Paris, France
Pact Zollverein Residency, Essen, Germany
2010 CalArts Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2006 National Superior School of Arts Paris, France full scholarship recipient
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Clairvoyant, Ceysson & Bénètiere gallery (UPCOMING)
Banat El Hara, Selva gallery, NY
A Private Viewing, Charmoli Ciarmoli Gallery, NY
Invisible Bodies, Penn University, curated by Emireth Herrera and The Border Space Project, Pennsylvania
2023 Bodies, Bronx Art Space, curated by Amanda Johnson, NY
Whispers, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, curated by Emireth Herrera, NY
Here, There, screening, curated by Sarah Lasley, Designhaus Damrstadt, Germany
Wildflowers, The Artist Gardener, curated by Bruna D'Alessandro, NY
Secret Show, SPRING/Break Art show Salon, New York, NY
Bodies | Object | Product | Agency, curated by Amanda Johnson, Triangle Loft, New York, NY
Body Memory, GHOSTMACHINE, New York, NY
Horizons, curated by Natasha Roberts, Central Park Tower, New York, NY
2022 Vector, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Naked Lunch, SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW, New York, NY
Bodily Integrity, The Border space Project, New York, NY
Phone Home, Ukraine Fundraiser, Grace Exhibition Space, New York, NY
Ors, Occupy Art Project, French Consulate, New York, NY
2021 Uniforms for the End of Time, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Dough, Hera Gallery, South Kingstown, RI,
Hearsay: Heresy, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
Staying Inn, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Din Din's Missing Luncheon, Flux Factory, New York, NY
Checkerboard Borders: Films of the Global South, online, Wofford College
Sexy Sex, Online, Gallery Perchée
2020 The Heel of the Loaf, The Border Project Space, New York, NY _SOLO
The Imminent Arrival, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, TIAB, New York, NY
CADAF, Contemporary and Digital Art Fair, SOLO
March of Time, Friday Studio Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Video Object, Video Snack VII, VCU Arts, Grace St Theater, Richmond, VA
Commingling: Dialogues, ZXY Gallery, New York, NY
Ex Abrupto Film Festival, Nomadic Collective Art, Moià, Spain
Here: A Bit of Everywhere and Everyone They've Been, NARS Foundation, New York, NY
Specter in the Threshold, The Border Project Space, New York, NY
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Comisionado Dominicano, New York, NY
2018 Talking Pictures, 106 Van Buren, New York, NY
For Lease, Call for Details, Creative Space for Lease, Los Angeles, CA
OUTTHERE, Filo Sofi Art, New York, NY
Intricate Neighbor II, Galerie Protégé, New York, NY
Intricate Neighbor, The Border Project Space, New York, NY
Video Now Now Now 2018, Herman B. Wells Library, Bloomington, IN
Fig de Barbary, New-York Forum of Amazigh Film, awarded 2nd best short, La Guardia Center for Performing Arts, New York, NY
2017 Interact, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center, New York, NY
Say- so, EIK Gallery, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
MFA Thesis show, Green Hall Gallery, New haven, CT
Mutocospio Film Festival , Puebla, Mexico
Ladies Eat Cakes, Girl on Girl Collective, Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY
New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archive, 2017, New York, NY
Yale Student Film Festival, Yale Film Alliance, New Haven, CT
2016 Esoteric Rodeo, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
Merry Goes Round, Yve Yang Gallery, Boston, MA
Me Gusta el Sonido, Art Space, New Haven, CT
Arts Mixer, Afro- American Cultural Center, New Haven, CT
Benefit Auction, Field Project Gallery, New York, NY
Expo 35, BJ Spoke Galley, curated by Mary Potter, NY
Feminist Cineclub, Algiers, Algeria
Translations- Kolkata, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata, India
Yale Student Film Festival, Whitney Humanity Center, New Haven, CT
Genealogies, curated by John Edmond, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2015 The Gates Are Open, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
Video Mixer, curated by Allyn Hughes, Green Hall Gallery New Haven, CT
Katra Film Series, New-York, NY
The Portrait Collection, Fifth Annual Exposure Award, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Future Memories, Reconstruction of New Identities, Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, 2015, Venice, Italy
Translations, curated by Geraldine Ondrizek, Feldenheimer Gallery, Portland, OR
Tributary, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Material Matters, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Inside Out, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR
Making Space, Gibney Gallery, New York, NY
The SEED, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Contextiles-Isations, Kalopsia Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Videorover 7, Pratt DDA Gallery, New York, NY
Last Minute but Forever First, Parenthesis Art Space, New York, NY
Videorover 7, NURTUREart Gallery, 2014, New York, NY
2010 Digital Chiaroscuro, Brooklyn Fireproof, New York, NY
Occupation, Louvrais Theatre, Cergy, France
Chapitre V, Le Voyage des Plantes, Maubuisson Abbey Art Center, France
PERFORMANCE
2016 Workin Like A, Yve Yang Gallery, Merry goes Round, Boston, MA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Inside the Art Show atop the Tallest Penthouse in New York, Artsy
A New Summit for Women: Natasha Roberts Curates Group Exhibition Inside NYC’s Highest Penthouse, Create Magazine
Art Seen Body Memory, by Emireth Herrera, The Brooklyn Rail, NY
2022 5 Booths to Watch at SPRING/BREAK Art Show’s 2022 New York Edition, Cultbytes Magazine, NY
The Standout Booths at Spring Break Art Show 2022 and Their Artists/Curators, Quiet Lunch, NY
2021 With a Medieval Flair Spring Break Art Show Celebrates the Eccentric, Hyperallergic, NY
Earthly Delights, ANTE mag
2020 The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020, Here Together! Virtual Exhibitions, Exhibition Catalogue, Co-Curated by Katya Grokhovsky, Mary Annunziata, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Allison Cannella
The Immigrant Artist Biennial: Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Artspiel
The Heel of the Loaf, Editor's pick of the week, Artnet
Temp Editions 02: What got left in the future, Taggverk Magazine
2017 Workin Like A, Emergency Index Volume 6, Ugly Duckling Press
2016 Volume 13, Cotton Candy, Smoking Glue Guns, Poetry & Arts Magazine
Found in Translation, The Telegraph
2015 Interview Bianca Boragi, Its Liquid
The Portraiture Collection, Fifth Annual Exposure Award
Telephone, Satellite Press Editorial, Online Exhibition
Translations, Emergent Art Space
2014 Bianca Boragi, Emergent Art Space
Bianca Boragi, Fine Art Vue, Verum Ultimum Gallery
New York Based Artist Bianca Boragi, Kalopsia Collective
Videorover 7, Artforum
Digital Chiaroscuro, Arts in Bushwick