Jeremy Borsos lives and works on Mayne Island, British Columbia Canada and in Athens, Greece. He worked in the motion picture industry in multiple capacities before studying at the Emily Carr School of Art in Vancouver.
He then attended the Art Students League in New York to study classical media. He has had numerous regional, national and international exhibitions. His work is interdisciplinary including sculpture, photography, installation, architecture, writing and video.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 "Just a Moment" Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria
2018 "The Blue Cabin" Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
2017 "Jeremy Borsos:"Castaways" Faultline Projects,
Salt Spring Island, B.C.
2016 "Jeremy Borsos: Immaculate Debris"
Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, B.C.
2012 "Jeremy Borsos: 8mm Redux" Saidye Bronfman
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Montreal
2006 "Then Again" Plug In Gallery Winnipeg, Manitoba
2004 " " Dunlop Art Gallery Regina, Saskatchewan
2003 " " Paved Art+New Media Saskatoon,Saskatchewan
2003 " " Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Selected Two Person Exhibitions
2022 "Lost Foundry / Fukishima Rising, (With Lance Olsen)
655 Tyee Victoria BC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 "The News Room" Hotam Press Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2017 "The Great Aims Society" Media Arts Festival,2017,
Arad, Romania
2017 "Storyland" Breaking Views: Memory in Progress, Future on
Hold" Cluj, Romania
2015 "Camera Atomica" Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,Ontario
2014 "The Year of Reconciliation" City of Vancouver Public
Art Commission
2014 "You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me" Oakville Galleries,
Oakville, Ontario
2011 "Drifters Clip" Open Space Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
2011 "Then Again" City of Vancouver Public Art Commission
2006 "Addressing Oakville" Oakville Galleries, Oakville ,Ont.
2005 "Chasing Amnesia" MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina,Sask.
2003 Contact Photography Exhibition Toronto, Ontario
Selected Projects
2024 “Times” selected news headlines as text works on steel
2023 “Wouldland” (dreams of a getaway) aluminum sculpture /
photography
2021/23 “House of Cloth” photographing/interpreting/restoring
200yr old house Tzia, Cyclades Greece
2017 "The Blue Cabin" rebuilding/photographing/interpreting 1927 cabin
and reforming it into an artist’s residency
2016 "Drive By" Video 9:18
2014-16. "Immaculate Debris": a bicameral archive
2015 "Old Glory" Video 6:09
2013 "B-52" Video 00:55
2012-14 "The Great Aims Society" video 20:16
2012 "Mon Vrai Man Ray" video 16:44
2011 City of Vancouver Public Art Commission/Vancouver 125
2010 "It's Spring, and It's Pouring" Video
2008- "Lens Obstruction Archive" Light Jet Prints
2008- "Not Present" Assemblage
2007 "A.C. Gilbert Co." Video
2005 "LightShed" (co-design and build original for Liz Magor)
2004 "Then Again" Berlin, Germany
2004 "Kiosk" Installation Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2003 "Then Again" CBC Podcast
2003 "High Winds and Sun" Video
2001 "Peace Archive" Installation Contemporary Art Gallery,
Vancouver
Written Works
2024 “A Vernacular Past” andEtcetera Press pp150
2023 “Profound Anonymity” essay for exhibition of anonymous art
2011-14. "Shot List" Written descriptions of home movie sequences
as scripts (unpublished)
2011. “Atomic Postcards”(with John O’Brian)Intellect Books
pp188 University of Chicago Press
2006 "Seen" (Photo)Graphic novel / artist's book 50 pages
unpublished)
2003 "Then Again" Catalogue Essay Oakville Galleries
2001 "History on Holiday" Artists book 40 pages BlackFlash
Magazine Feature Vol. 19, 1
2000 "Reassigned Identities" Featured in Geist Magazine
(Summer issue)
Awards
2016 Canada Council Visual Arts project award
2015 Public Art Network Year in review award.
Year of Reconciliation
2011 British Columbia Arts Council Project Assistance for
Media Artists
2009 British Columbia Arts Council Project Assistance for
Visual Artists
2003 Canada Council Travel Grant
2002 Canada Council "B" Grant
2000 British Columbia Arts Council grants to Visual Artists
1996 Canada Council Short Term Grant
1995 Canada Council Travel Grant
1994 Canada Council "B" Grant
1992 BC Arts Council Assistance for Visual Artists
Participant / Presenter
2024. Athens Art Book Fair, Athens, Greece
2022 “Works” Artist’s Lecture North Island College, B.C.
2017 "The Blue Cabin" Seymour Art Gallery, Deep Cove,BC
2012 "Works" Artists Lecture Concordia University Montreal
2009 "The Antithetical Archive" Artists lecture Concordia
University Montreal, Quebec
2008 B.C. Arts Council jury member (visual arts)
2008 Arts Partners for Creative Development jury member
(visual arts)
2004 "The Subconscious Archive" Artists Lecture University
of B.C.
2002-03. B.C. Arts Council Museums Advisory Committee
2000 B.C. Arts Council jury member (visual arts)
Selected Bibliography
-Morgan Fier, Caoimhe, The Little Blue Cabin That Could,
Canadian Art Magazine,September 13, 2018
-Watson, Scott "The Blue Cabin" Catalogue essay, Grunt Gallery
July, 2018
-Turner, Michael, "Jeremy Borsos: Immaculate Debris"
Essay July,2016
-Whyte, Murray,"At Oakville Galleries a Who's Who of Canadian
Artists" Toronto Star July 16, 2014
-Ditmars, Hadani "In New Public Art Three Visions of Vancouver
Collide" Canadian Art March 26 2014
-White, Peter, “ Between Decorum and Defiance, Jeremy Borsos
Meets the Home Movie” Catalogue Essay SBC Gallery Feb. 2012
-Bem, Caroline “Jeremy Borsos - Frieze Frames” Canadian Art
March 22 2012
-Delgado, Jérôme “Expositions - Échantillons d’une civilisation”
Le Devoir Montreal March 17 2012
-Bem Caroline "Jeremy Borsos- Le Retour Du 8mm" CielVariable #92
August 2012
-Wall Street Journal Book Review "Missives from the Nuclear Age"
July 2nd 2011
-Vanderbilt, Tom "Wish You Were Here - Boom!" Slate Magazine
July 13th 2011
-Kahn, Eve “Postcards for Posterity” New York Times March 2012
-Marzolf, Helen "Drifter's Clip" Forward catalogue essay 2011
-Matijcio, Steven "No Fixed Address" Catalogue Essay Winnipeg
Plug In Gallery Feb 2006
-Kangas, Matthew "Epicentre- Essays on North American Art"
Midmarch Press, NY 2005
-Marzolf, Helen "The Visual Histories of Jeremy Borsos"
Interplay, Saskatoon,Sask Sept 2004
-MacLear, Kyo "Jeremy Borsos" Canadian Art Magazine May 2003
-O'Brian, John "Addressing Time" Catalogue essay, Oakville
Galleries, Ontario April 2003
-O'Brian, John "Camera Atomica" Exhibition catalogue (image
only)Black Dog Press / Art Gallery of Ontario July 2015