Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2023 “Noa Bornstein rock sculptures”, bronze sculptures mounted on stone at Dear Friend Books, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY
2022 “Goings On- Noa Bornstein New Paintings–and Pig Seeks Friends, sculpture”, Brouwerij Lane, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
2022-2023 Peace Gorilla, sculpture-2nd installation in Newtown Barge Park/Greenpoint Landing, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, under the auspices of NYC Park’s Art in the Parks Program
2020-2021 Peace Gorilla, sculpture, installation in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, across from the United Nations Building, Manhattan, under the auspices of NYC Park’s Art in the Parks Program
2013 “Survival of the Fittest”–Noa Bornstein: sculpture; Daniel Clurman: painting, duo show, P339 Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
1994 “Noa Bornstein Drawings–Dream of the Father and Daughters”, Planet Thailand, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
1986 “Peintures Murales de Noa Bornstein” (painting, drawings, photo replicas)
(Traveling Exhibition):
The Wuk Kulturhauser, Vienna, Austria;
L’Institut superieur pour l’Etude du Langage Plastique, Brussels, Belgium;
La Galerie de la province de Hainaut, Mons, Belgium
1978 “Paintings and Drawings by Noa Bornstein”, Claudia Chapline I.D.E.A. Studio
(Institute for Dance and Experimental Art), Santa Monica, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
“Discourse on Drawing, 15th Annual International Contemporary Art Exhibition”, University of North Carolina at Asheville, juror, Phong Bui
2023-2024
“Peace Gorilla” at Kingsland Wildflowers at Broadway Stages,
Brooklyn, NY
2020
“The Blues”, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2018
City Park’s Foundation’s SummerStage, sculpture installation, Queensbridge Park, Queens, NY
2017
“It’s Happening! 50 Year Celebration of Art in NYC Parks”, sculpture installation
Central Park, New York, NY
“Discourse on Drawing, 8th Annual International Contemporary Art exhibition”, University of North Carolina, Asheville, juror: Scott Noel
“When Language Meets Art”, Christine DeVitt Exhibition Hall, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA), Lubbock, Texas, juror: Gary Sweeney
2016
“Dancers we Lost: Honoring Performers Lost to FIV/AIDS” (contributed portrait drawings of the late dancer
Billy Gornel) Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Glenne McElhinney of
Impact Stories
“Motion in Art”, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY, juror: Marina Press
“LIfe on Mars: Through the Rabbit Hole”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014-2015
“Metro 31, Small Works”, City without Walls (Cwow) Newark, NJ,
2014
“Sculpture within Reach”, A New Leaf Gallery/Sculpturesite, Sonoma, CA
“Nation II at the Alamo”, Sideshow Gallery, Williambsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2013
“Unbounded”, Hollar Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
AES Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, NY
“Sideshow Nation”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Scholarship Recipients: Prints from the Collections” Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2012
“Clayfest NYC 2012″ Clayspace 1205 Showroom, Brooklyn, NY
“Mic:Check (Occupy) Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Grounds for Sculpture, Toad Hall Gallery, Hamilton, NJ
“Animal Dreams”, A New Leaf Gallery/Sculpturesite, Sonoma, CA
“Distant Cousins: Jewish and Muslim Women Speak Exhibition”,
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, New York, NY,
curated by Haifa Bint-Kadi
2010
“20th Anniversary Exhibition”, Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Holiday Group Show” AES Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, NY
“It’s a Wonderful 10th”, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2009
“Selections from the Gallery’s Artists”, Walter Randel Gallery, New York, NY
“Dreamwork”, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, New York, NY
2008
“Peace”, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
“Holiday Group Show”, AES Gallery, LIC, Queens, NY
“Clay Work” Clay Space 1205, Brooklyn, NY (co-juror and exhibitor)
2007
“Big Ideas, Small Works, Miniature Sculptures and Maquettes”, Sculpturesite Gallery, SF, CA
“Common Ground, Proposals for Public Art”, Westchester Community College, State U of NY, Valhalla, NY
SOFA Chicago, with Sculpturesite Gallery
2006
“Images of Social Justice, Small Works, Big Heart”, St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY
“We are Brooklyn”, Clinton Hill Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
“Vernissage”, A New Leaf Gallery and Sculpturesite, San Francisco & Sonoma, CA
“Spectrum”, Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY
“Gallery Artists”, The Figurative Gallery, La Quinta, CA
“Williamsburg Gallery Association Walking Tour”, Holland Tunnel Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Brooklyn, NY
2004
“Metamorphoses”, Studio 18 Gallery, New York, NY
“Italian Painters and American Sculptors” Gallery Boreas satellite project, Gateways Inn, Lenox, MA
“Olympus Revisited”, Holland Tunnel Extension, Paroika, Paros, Greece
2003
“Quiet Places”, Atelier Fine Art Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ (3-person show)
(showed 33 miniature to mid-sized bronze sculptures)
2002
“To Scale”, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,
“20th Anniversary of Outdoor Sculpture”, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY
“The Figure in Bronze”, Grounds for Sculpture, Toad Hall Gallery, Hamilton, NJ
“Drawing from Perception”, Wright State University Gallery, Dayton, OH, juror: Graham Nickson
“The Pastel National, 2002”, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS, juror: Wolf Kahn
2001
“BROOKLYN!” Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lakeworth, FL,
2000
“North American Sculpture Biennial”, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, juror: Alison Saar
“Figurative and Portrait Show”, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center (Wah)
1998
“Wood Memorial Biennial”, Gallery in the Wood, South Windsor, CT, juror: Susan Cross
“Children in Crisis, Int’l Benefit Exhibition”, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Theodora Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1997
“National Juried Competition”, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY, juror: Judd Tully
“42nd Long Island Artists’ Exhibition”, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, juror: Holly Solomon
1996
“Summer Group Show” Caelum Gallery, New York, NY
showed sculptures to “small sculptures to see, touch, and hold (outreach to visually impaired community included
invitations with Braille)
1995
“The Best Contemporary Art CD-ROM, Juried Collection”, Art Communication Int’l, Philadelphia, PA, jurors:
Claudia Stone, Ivan Karp, Pamela Auchincloss
“The Self-Portrait Show, Part I” The New York Law School, NYC
1993
Outdoor Museum of Art, a Frankensteinberg Project, sponsored by Northside Merchants Association,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
1992
“Family”, Goddard-Riverside Center, New York, NY
1991
“Positive Actions”, Visual AIDS Competition, Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY
1989
“Allied Arts”, The Michigan Gallery, Multi-Media Exhibition curated by Allied Arts, Inc.
Detroit, Michigan
1985
“Fusion ’85: Works of Asian, Black, Jewish and Latino Artists of Los Angeles”, Jewish Federation, Los Angeles, CA
“Southern California Figurative Art”, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, Juror: Ruth Weisberg
Awards
Award of Excellence, Discourse on Drawing, 15th Annual,
UNC Asheville, NC
2024, Juror, Phong Bui
Puffin Foundation, Ltd, Grant, 2019
Scholarship, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC (Lithography) 2012
First Place, Images of Social Justice, Small Works, Big Heart, St. Josephs College, Brooklyn, NY (sculpture) 2006
Juror, Janet Braun Reinitz
Honorable Mention Snapshot of Survival, Sanofi-Aventis, New York, NY (drawing) 2006
Knox Galleries Award for Cast Bronze, North American Sculpture Biennial Juror: Alison Saar, 2000
Catherine and Denis Krusos Award of Excellence (sculpture, one of 5 first place awards) Heckscher Museum of Art, Juror: Holly Solomon, 1996
Award of Outstanding Contribution to the Los Angeles Murals Program, L.A. Cultural Affairs, 1985
Commissions
Lincoln Market portraits of staff and owner, 14 oil on canvas portraits installed in a mural-like presentation in the store, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 2022
Private portrait drawing commission, David Bronson, New York, NY, 2018
Private ceramic portrait sculpture and portrait drawings commission, David Bronson, New York, NY, 2015
Cover illustration, Origins of Felis Catus in the New World, Kindle Book by Tony Batchelor and Carlee Marrer-Tising, 2012
NYC Chapter Engineers w/out borders, Cambodia Water Dam Project, sculptures for model of dam, 2008
Baltimore Sculpture Project, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, sculpture installed,
Pearlstone Park, Baltimore, MD, 2007
Mayor’s Partnership for Summit Arts and Summit Outdoor Art Project (SOAP), “Shangri-La in Miniature”,
sculptures installed in Promenade Park, Summit, NJ, 2005
Private outdoor sculpture installation, Summit, NJ, 2005
Polk Museum of Art, “The Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition”, sculpture installed, Lakeland, FL, 2001
City of New York Parks & Recreation, sculpture installed, TriBeCa Park, NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation, 2000.
Bellmont Italian American Playhouse, Luigi Pirandello’s Henry 1V, life-size painted portraits for
onstage, New York, NY, 1998
Wellstone Inc., Architectural Associates, , Dream of the Two Houses , mural for courtyard linking
two new sculptural homes, fresco pigment in acrylic medium, 8’ x 7’ on wood, Santa Monica, CA, 1992
Drawings and paintings for onscreen for independent feature film, Practice to Deceive, by Michael Bergmann
New York, NY, 1991
The New York Times Book Review, illustrations, 1991
The Harlem Girls Ensemble, painting, The Rehearsal, card printed from painting sold at the Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York, NY, 1989
Theater for the New City, mural/painting installations for The Breakaways, by Bob Borsodi, New York, NY, 1989
Operation GreenThumb, Department of General Services, the New York State
Council on the Arts, (NYSCA) Striving Together, Mural at the Harlem Rehabilitation Center,
43′ high x 90′, oil on exterior of brick building, NYC, 1987
LA Cultural Affairs Department, Chevron, Inc., and IBM, Inc., Harry Bornstein, mural, Magritte in Los Angeles,
17′ high x 100′, acrylic on exterior cement wall, near LAX (google: Magritte in Los Angeles) 1984
Clint Eastwood, drawings and on-screen painting of Sondra Locke for film, Sudden Impact, 1983
Grifftex Corporate Collections, purchase of Chaim Soutine Drinking, oil on canvas, lithographic
poster reproduction, nationwide distribution, 1983
Selected Collections
OB/GYN office of Dr. Claude Tolbert, Beaufort, SC
Kleinfelder Engineers, Bohemia, NY
Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
Law offices of Jerod Peterson, Minneapolis, MN
Christian Stephans, President, Price Waterhouse, Hamburg, Germany
Georges Leroux, Architectes des Interieurs, Brussels, Belgium
Devra Isserman Fine Art Services, Santa Monica, CA
Clint Eastwood, Los Angeles, CA
Grifftex Corporate Collections, GA
New York University, Fales Library (mural archive) New York, NY
(numerous private collections in the U.S. UK, and Europe)
Education
Sculpture Center, New York, NY, 1996-97
Selected courses in sculpture, painting, architectural perspective, National Academy of Design, New York Academy of Art, Parsons, New York, NY, 1986-1988
Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA, Functional Human Anatomy,
Science Department, 1980-81
B.A., Major in Art, Minor Dance Theater (unofficial),University of California, Santa Cruz, 1974. Junior year, traveled, painted in Israel and Europe, attended Art Academy of Vienna, Austria, Spring Semester
BORN, San Rafael, California