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1971 BFA, MFA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1968 BS with Honors, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2023 National Hellenic Museum, Chicago, IL
2022 Maliotis Cultural Center of Hellenic College Holy Cross, Boston, MA
2019 "Gift of Art" York College, CUNY, Jamaica, NY
2015 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2014 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2013 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2012 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2010 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2009 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, NY
2008 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2006 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2005 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2001 MuseumWest,Palo Alto ,CA
2000 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Nahan Galleries, New York,NY
1992 Nahan Galleries, New York, NY
1991 Nahan Galleries, New York,NY
1989 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1987 J.J. Brookings Gallery , San Jose,CA
1985 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Martha White Gallery, Lexington, KY
1982 Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1981 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Squibb Museum, Princeton, NJ
1979 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1979 David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1978 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Max Protech Gallery, Washington, DC
1974 Soho 20 Gallery
1973 Soho 20 Gallery
2021 A Woman’s View - Recognizing Artists in the Adirondacks, Adirondack History Museum, Elizabethtown, NY (curator)
2019 "Women Defining Themseleves, The Original Artists of Soho 20" Rowan Univerity, Glassboro, NJ
2017 Artists from the Atea Ring Gallery, Keene Arts Center, NY
2015 “40th Anniversary Exhibition”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
2014 "Attitudes", Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
2013 "Summer Show", Seraphin Gallery, Phila, PA
2010 "Abstractions," Scarlett Thicket Farm, Kennett Square, PA
2007 Miami/Dade University, Miami, FL
2007 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005 "LenteAmigo" (2 artists), Remedios, Cuba
2005 "Viajeros: North American Artists/Photographers Images of Cuba," Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
2003 "Images of Cuba," Remedios, Cuba
2001 "Pigment Parameters," Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Group Show, Coplan Gallery, Boca RAton, Fla
1997 Group Show, JJ Brookings Gallery, San Fransisco,Ca
The Web Gallery, New York , NY
1996 “Patchwork”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1994 “20th Anniversary Exhibition, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York,
“Teamwork" , Lehman College/Krasdale Foods, Bronx, NY
1993 “The City Observed”,Bronx Museum of Art, Krasdale Foods,
“Combinations”, Andre Zarre Gallery,New York, NY
1992 Christmas Show”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
“Little Gems”, Nahan Gallery, New York, NY
“Urban Mindscapes”, Krasdale Foods Gallery, White Plains,
1989 “Architectural Themes in Art”, Nabisco GAllery, Hanover, NJ
1988 “Four Painters”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1987 “Inaugural Exhibiton”, Sazama/Brauer Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Contemporary Light”, Kathryn Markel Gallery, NewYork, NY
“Three NY Artists”, Sazama/Brauer Gallery, Chicago ,IL
“Contemporary Symbolist Sensibilities”, Bronx Museum of Art
1986 “Points of View”, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
1985 “American Realism” San Francisco Museum of Art, SF
“Photo-Synthesis”,1 Penn Plaza,New York, NY
“Point of View”, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1984 “How I Spent My Summer Vacation”,Kathryn Markel Gallery,
1983 “Five from New York”, Merrill Lynch, New York, NY
“Variety and Quest in Current Painting”, Zolla/Lieberman ,IL
“Newscapes:Land& City State of Mind” One Penn Plaza, NY
1982 “Architectural Images in Contemporary Paintings”, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
“Skidmore Invitational”, Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY
1981 “101 New Acquisitions” , Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, NY
“NY State Graphics Plus”, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
“Four New York Artists” Harriman College, Harriman, NY 1980 “Harmonious Contradictions”, Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca ,NY
1979 “Gifts of Drawing”,Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Differentials”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1978 “Personal Spaces”, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
“Fifth Anniversary Exhibition”, Andre Zarre Gallery, NY
“Women Artists ‘78”, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
1977 “Perspective ‘77”, Albright College,Reading, PA
“Group Show”, Allesandro Gallery, New York, NY
“Paintings and Works on Paper”, Andre Zarre Gallery, NY
1976 “The Liberation-14 American Artists”, CorcoraGallery/Aarhus Kunstmuseum (Exhibition travelled to 9 countries)
“American Artists ‘76: A Celebration”, McNay Art Institute,San Antonio, TX
“20 New York Artists”, University of Wisconsin, WI
1975 “Childe Hassam Purchase Fund Exhibit”, American Academy of Arts and Letters
“Year of the Woman”, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
1974 “Point of View”, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
“New York Eleven”, C.W. Post College, Long Island, NY
“Contemporary Reflections”, Aldrich Museum of Fine Arts, CT
2021 Costa Kastoris, Elena Borstein: Memories of the Aegean, Virtualisti Films (film, 27min., Youtube)
2021 Kate Moses,” Conversation with Elena Borstein”, The Gardan, 6-16.
2011 Janet Koplos, Illuminated Architecture: Elena Borstein’s Greek Works (catalogue)
2001 Janet Koplos, “Elena Borstein at Andre Zarre”, Art in America, Jan.
1992 Patricia Hills, Elena Borstein, “Mediterranean World” (catalogue)
1987 Gerritt Henry, Art News, Jan, 144
1987 William Zimmer, “Views of City Life”, New York Times
1986 Henry Hopkins, American Realism- 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors, (cover photo and
introduction)
1986 Dorothy Burkhart, “Elena Borstein at JJ Brookings”, San Jose Mercury, San Jose, CA
1985 Phillip Verre, “Elena Borstein”, Arts Magazine, Dec., 101
1982 “8 New York Artists”, Art Sources, Jacksonville, FL
1981 Valerie Natsios, New York Art Journal (cover photo)
1981 Graphics Plus, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY
1980 David Shirey, “Architecture to a Painters Eye”, New York Times, March 16
1980 Nina French-Frazier, Art International, Jan/Feb, 17
1980 Barbara Flug-Colon, Arts Magazine, Feb., 23
1979 James Auer, “Serenity Makes the Art Scene”, Milwaukee Journal, Oct. 21
1978 Peter Frank, Art News, Oct., 9
1978 Ellen Lubell, Arts Magazine, May
1978 Edgar Buonagurio, Arts Magazine, Sep.
1978 New York Review of Art, 122-123
1977 Victor Tantransky, Arts Magazine, Oct.
1977 “Perspective 77”, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, PA (catalogue)
1977 Elena Borstein, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Architects”, Womanart, 4-5
1977 Heresies, May
1976 Jane Livingston, “The Liberation - 14 Woman Artists”, Corcoran Gallery (catalogue, cover photo)
1976 Who’s Who in American Art
1976 International Who’s Who of Women Artists
1974 Goldwaite H. Dorr III, Point of View (catalogue, cover photo)
1974 Larry Aldrich, Aldrich Museum (catalogue)
2021 York Foundation Award, Professor Emerita, York College
2000 CUNY Research Award
1998 CUNY Research Award
1996 CUNY Research Award
1994 CUNY Research Award
1998 Certificate of Honor, York College
1980 CAPS Grant
1980 NEA Grant
1980 Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, (visiting artist & exhibit)
1979 Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts & Letters
Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
Hayden Museum, M.I.T., Boston, MA
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT
American Academy of Arts & Letters
University of Idaho, Boise, ID
St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
York College, CUNY, Jamaica, NY
Albright College, Reading, PA
City College, CUNY, NY, NY
Prudential Insurance Co., Newark, NJ
Security National Bank, Chicago, IL
Morgan Stanley Bank, NY, NY
Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb, NY, NY
F.M.C. Corp, NY, NY
Squibb Corporation, Princeton, NJ
Amoco Corporation, Denver, CO
Whitco Chemical, Newark, NJ
Gilbert & Tweed Associates, NY, NY
HBO, NY, NY
Southeast Banking Corp, Miami, FL
Merrill Lynch, NY, NY
Gollust, Tierney & Oliver, NY, NY
Ottawa Silica Corp. Ottawa, IL (commission)
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, NY, NY
Glenn C Janss Collection, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID
1971- 2001 York College CUNY Full Professor (tenured since 1985)
2001 York College CUNY Professor Emerita
1985 Part-time Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College (sabbatical year)