BIOGRAPHY

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Born 1956.
BA in Russian, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 1979.
MFA in Photography, Yale University, School of Art, 1982.
Professor of Art, Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, OH, 1984-2014.
Photographs in Public Collections
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal.
Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC.
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH.
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH.
Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington.
The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, MO.
Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.
LaSalle National Bank, Chicago, IL.
Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
Midtown Y Photography Gallery Permanent Collection, New York City.
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC.
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ.
Vereins- und Westbank Collection, Hamburg, Germany.
Yale University , New Haven, CT.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Andrew Borowiec, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.
Provence, Sasha Wolf Gallery, NY.
2013
Along the Lincoln Highway: Photographs by Andrew Borowiec, Massillon Museum, Ohio.
Nights in Provence, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Ohio.
The New Heartland, Catich Gallery at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.
2011
Andrew Borowiec, Sasha Wolf Gallery, NYC.
2010
Compromised Paradise: The Gulf Coast in the 21st Century. Show video
Akron Art Museum, Ohio.
The Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.
2008
The Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio.
2003
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago.
Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2002
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh.
Promega Corporation, Madison, WI.
2001
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio.
Festival L'Art Dans La Ville, St. Etienne, France.
2000
The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA.
1999
The Photography Gallery, Florida International University, North Miami, FL.
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.
Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo, TX.
Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO.
1997
O.K. Harris, New York, NY.
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL.
1996
Regis University, Denver, CO.
1995
Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO.
The McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH.
The Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH.
1994
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Midtown Y Photo Gallery, New York, NY.
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR.
Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
1991
Blatent Image, Silver Eye. Pittsburgh, PA.
The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH.
1990
Florida International University, North Miami, FL.
1989
Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH.
1988
Exit Gallery, Reno, NV.
Workspace Gallery, Boulder, CO.
1987
Dillingham Gallery, Ithaca College, NY.
1986
Dishman Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX.
1984
Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY.
1982
Galerie Les Arcenaulx, Marseille, France.
1981
Le Poisson Banane, Arles, France.
Galerie Un Moment En Plus, Paris, France.
1978
Club House, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
"Object Lesson: The Legacy of Richard Benson," TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, Philadelphia, PA. (accompanied by Aperture book).
2016
Kentucky Captured: Photographs Inspired by the Bluegrass State (photographs from the collection of the University of Louisville Photographic Archives), KY.
2015
Proof: Photographs from the Collection, Akron Art Museum, OH.
2014
The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2014, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN.
2010
Horizons 20/21, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN.
2009
Yesterday & Tomorrow: Issues in Contemporary Photography, Ruschman Art Gallery, Indianapollis.
2008
A Century of Haverford Alumni Photographers, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
A Shared Vision: The Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Photography Collection, Akron Art Museum, Akron.
2007
Visions of a City with a Soul: Four photographers in Cleveland. Cleveland Artists Foundation.
The (sub)Urban Landscape, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Celebration of Creativity: OAC Fellowships 1980-2006, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.
2005
The Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
2003-2004
The View from Here: Recent Pictures from Central Europe and the American Midwest: Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary; Stone Bell House, City Gallery of Prague, Czechoslavakia; Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery, Columbus; SPACES, Cleveland, OH; Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis; Erie Art Museum, PA.
1999
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX.
1998
Photography and Industry, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
1994
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH.
1988
Houston Fotofest, Houston, TX.
1987
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH.
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY.
1980
International Center of Photography, New York City.
1978
Jeunes Photographes, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France.
Selected Publications
2021
The New Heartland: Looking for the American Dream. George F. Thompson Publishing; Staunton, VA.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1988. Cafe Royal Books.
2018
Wheeling, West Virginia. Camera Infinita Books.
2008
Cleveland: The Flats, the Mill, and the Hills. Center for American Places & Columbia College, Chicago.
2005
Industrial Perspective: Photographs of the Gulf Coast. Staunton, VA:Center for American Places.
2003
The George Gund Foundation Annual Report 2002, Cleveland, OH.
2002
The View from Here: Recent Pictures from Central Europe and the American Midwest, catalogue of exhibition curated by Catherine Evans, Curator of Photography, Columbus Museum of Art, OH.
DoubleTake Magazine, Winter Issue: Landscapes of Industry.
Details Magazine, January Issue.
2000
Along the Ohio, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London.
The Dog, by Ruth Silverman, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.
Up and Down: Vereins- und Westbank Collection. Hamburg.
1996
DoubleTake Magazine, issue 9: Along the Ohio.
The Photo Review, August, 1996.
1993
Blue Sky #10, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR.
1989
Historic Architecture in Canton, 1805-1940, text by M.J. Albacete, photographs by Andrew Borowiec, Canton, Ohio: The Canton Art Institute.
America's Uncommon Places: Sites from the National Register of Historic Places, Washington: The National Trust for Historic Preservation.
1985
Documentary Photography, Leica Fotografie #6/86, Munich, West Germany.
Awards
2012
Summer Research Fellowship, The University of Akron (also '09, 06, '03, '00, '97, '90, '88).
2009
Promoted to Distinguished Professor, the University of Akron.
2006
The Cleveland Arts Prize.
2002
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (also in 1998, 1988).
2001
Ohio Arts Council Artists Projects Grant.
2000
Summer Research Fellowship, The University of Akron (also in 1997, 1990, 1988).
1998
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.
Fellowship Award, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO.
1997
The Photo Review National Museum of American Art Purchase Prize.
1988
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.
1986
National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Midwest Photography Fellowship.