George Boorujy
GEORGE BOORUJY
b. New Jersey
Lives and works in Brooklyn
EDUCATION
2002 MFA,
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1996 BFA, University of Miami Coral Gables, FL
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Passenger, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
George Boorujy: Taxonomy, The Arsenal Gallery, Central
Park, New York, NY
2012 Bloody Memory, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2009 Migratory Drift, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2007 The Nature of Civilization, Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor
Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
2005 Lost World, AG Gallery Brooklyn, NY
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SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Messenger, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Twenty Sixteen in 2016, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
The Conference of the Birds, Shirley Fiterman Art Center,
New York, NY
2015 Post Human Utopia, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Exploring America: Western, Wildlife and Contemporary Art from the National Museum of Wildlife Art and the
Stonehollow Collection, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL
Mating Season, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
EF2 (Epic Fail: Second Edition), The Active Space,
Brooklyn, NY
2013 It’s the End of the World as We Know it (and I Feel Fine), Ramapo
College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ
The Pond, the Mirror, the Kaleidoscope, SVA Chelsea
Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Falling Through Space Drawn by the Line, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo,
NY
EarthWORKS: Ten Artists on Land and Industry, P·P·O·W,
New York, NY
2011 Beyond the Horizon, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Seaworthy: An Exhibition, Workshops, & Excursions, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2010 Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion, and Anthropomorphism, John
Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Cityscape: Surveying the Urban Biotope, Socrates
Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2008 Golden Record, Fringe Festival Edinburgh, Scotland
Gangbusters,
Plane Space, New York, NY
Warm,
Red, Salt and Wet, 31, Grand New York, NY
The
Dog Came Out of the Woods, StoneFox Art Space, New York, NY
2007 From
Our Living Room to Yours, Goff and Rosenthal Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2005 Post
Everything, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Animal
Tales, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Greater
Brooklyn, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Fifteen
Paces, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Remastered,
Diesel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Look
Closer, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Road
Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
War
Culture, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
2002 Thesis
Exhibition, Tribeca Arts Club, New York, NY
Reactions,
Exit Art, New York, NY
The
Hand Print, SVA Gallery, New York, NY
2001 The Turning Page, American Institute of
Graphic Arts, New York, NY
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SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Los Angeles, CA New York Historical Society, New York, NY National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States, Jackson Hole, WY William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Mt Kisco, NY |
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 |
The Pond, the Mirror, the Kaleidoscope (catalog) curated by
Thomas Woodruff for the SVA Chelsea Gallery |
2012 |
Wyma, Chloe, Daily Pick, Artinfo, March 14, 2012. Keim, Brandon,
Postnatural: Intense Animal Art for the 21st Century, WIRED, March 21, 2012. Biblioklept, Interview,
March 15, 2012 Stanley, Caroline,
“Stunning Ink Paintings of Wild Animals,” Flavorwire, March 13, 2012 Pollack, Barbara,
“Reviews, George Boorujy,” ArtNews, June 2012 “Daily Pick: George Boorujy’s ‘Blood memory’ Opens,” Blouin
Artinfo, March 14, 2012 |
2011 |
Kuan, Debora, Charismatic Megafauna: Interview with George
Boorujy IDIOM, April 21, 2011. Schultz, Charles. “Sea Worthy,” The Brooklyn Rail. June
10-July 29, 2011. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/07/artseen/sea-worthy Keim, Brandon. “Disturbing or Beautiful? Artists Evaluate
Man’s Impact on Nature,” Wired. August 10, 2011.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/beyond-the-horizon/?pid=1772&viewall=true Interview with George Boorujy. Veine Magazine. September 2011.
pp. 73-78. http://issuu.com/veinemagazine/docs/num_ro_2 “Artists to Watch: Exploring the Primal with Paper and Ink,”
American Artist, Jan 2011 |
2010 |
“Art Listings,” Time Out New York. June 17-23, 2010. |
2009 |
Nelson, Joe Heaps. “George Boorujy Interview,”
Whitehot Magazine. August 2009. NY Arts Magazine, Voices, Nov/Dec 2007. p.12.. PaintersNYC,
http://painternyc.blogspot.com/2007/06/george-boorujy.html George Boorujy, The Nature of Civilization
(catalogue). Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art 2007. Bat City Review Summer 2007. Austin, TX. Remastered Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH & Co. KG,
Berlin 2006. Dirtpress Featured Artist issue 2.2 September, 2005. Harper’s Magazine Readings August 2005. p. 18. The New York Times Art in Review July 8, 2005. New Yorker Short List July 4, 2005. p. 21. Brooklyn Rail July, 2005. Anthem magazine June, 2005. p.57. |
2005 |
Smith, Roberta, “Art In Review,” The New York Times,
July 8 2005 |