Viola Bordon
Solo Shows & Installations
2026 To Warm a House Divided, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA (upcoming)
2026 Muliebrity, Museum of Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA
2024 Flow, Taragaon Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal
2023 Sacred Discernment, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2023 The Singing Church, Philadelphia, PA
2021. Bet, Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, Jet, OK
2018 The Mountain, Jeske Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
Group Exhibits
2026 Radical Americana, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2026 Conflagrations, Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2025 Refigured, Unframed, William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, PA
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
2023 Ever Changing, Contemporary STLCC, St. Louis, MO
2022 In Orbit, Patton-Malott Gallery, Aspen, CO
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 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
2024 Kathmandu University, 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, 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