Viola Bordon

Exhibitions & Installations

2025    Architectural Interventions 5 curator Isidro Blasco, Upstate Art Weekend, NY
2025    The House of D, Eastern Connecticut State University Gallery, CT
2025    We are Compost, Big Ramp Gallery, PA
2025    Memories from the Land, National Museum of Kolkata, Kolkata, India
2025    Land Arts of the American West, Lubbock, TX
2024    Memories from the Land, Serendipity, Goa, India
2024   SA Ladakh, Leh, India
2024    Flow, Taragaon Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal
2023   Sacred Discernment, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2023    The Singing Church, Philadelphia, PA
2023   Ever Changing, Contemporary STLCC, St. Louis, MO
2022    In Orbit, Patton-Malott Gallery, Aspen, CO
2021   Bet, Salt Planes National Wildlife Refuge, Jet OK
2021    Now and at the Hour, Hot Bed, Philadelphia, PA
2021   Double Feature, Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA
2021    Big Stick Energy, XYZ Artist Run Initiative, Brisbane, Australia
2020   Behind Our Masks, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2019    From Now to Now, Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018    The Mountain, Jeske Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
2018   The Living Archive, Mildred’s Complexity, Narrowsburg, NY
2018    The Geophagic Water Closet, Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA
2018    Lacunae, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2018    Slash: A Pop-Up Show, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2018    Student Print Exhibition, Gallery Fab, St. Louis, MO
2017    For Play, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2017   TBD, Private Storage, St. Louis, MO
2016    Final Student Show, Flo Valley Gallery, Florissant, MO
2015    Context, The Foundry Arts Center, St, Charles, MO
2014    Reflections, Lebanon Valley Council on the Arts, Lebanon, PA

Grants & Awards

2025               Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award, Washington University in St. Louis
2024               Individual Federal Award, U.S. Department of State, Nepal
2024               Project Grant, United States Education Fund
2024               Illuminate the Arts, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy
2023-2024      Fulbright Foreign Research Scholarship in Nepal, US State Department
2022               Illuminate the Arts, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy
2020               Student Arts Innovation Grant, Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
2020               Lawrence Shprintz MFA Award, University of Pennsylvania
2018                John T. Milliken Foreign Travel Award
2017                Belle Cramer Award in Printmaking, Washington University in St. Louis
2016-2018       Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarship, Washington University Women’s Society

Residencies

2024    Taragaon Next, Kathmandu, Nepal
2022    Anderson Ranch, CO
2018    Indian Institute of Craft and Design, Jaipur, India
2018    Mildreds Lane, NY

Education & Certifications

2021   MFA, Studio Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA
2018   BFA, Studio Art, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
2016 Studio Art (transfer credits), St Louis Community College, MO 

2024  Certification in Land Art of the American West, Texas Tech, TX
2021   Certification in Emerging Design and Research, University of Pennsylvania, PA