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Leon Borensztein (born 22 May 1947 in Poland) is an American contemporary artist, photographer whose work reflects long-term and in-depth projects. His areas of focus are in psychological portraiture and documentary
LIFE AND WORK Borensztein’s biggest influence on his work has been his life experience. Throughout his artistic career he has been driven by the need to give voice to the unheard and unseen. Borensztein has had numerous well received books published by major publishers: “Metamorphosis” collaboration with John MacGregor PhD, “One is Adam, One is Superman” and “American Portraits”. Those books are visual documentation of salient moments in the lives of his subjects. His latest book “Sharon” is a testimony of a father documenting every stage of the challenged life of his severely disabled daughter.
Leon was working for leading magazines including extensive work for The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Vogue, Fortune, and other. His work appeared in Life magazine, Harpers. He received MFA with honors from SF Art Institute, a Guggenheim Fellowship, has his work exhibited widely and is included in various public and private collections.
EDUCATION • M.F.A. 1980 Photography, Honors, San Francisco Art Institute • B.A. 1974 Creative Art and Geography, University of Haifa, Israel
BOOKS BY BORENSZTEIN • One is Adam One is Superman. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, American Portraits 1979-1989. Portland, OR: Nazareli Press, 2011 ISBN 978-1-59005-305-8. Essay by Sandy Philips. • Portraits ii. Portland, OR: Nazareli Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-59005-359-1 • Sharon. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-86828-661-8
PUBLICATIONS WITH CONTRIBUTION BY BORENSZTEIN • Metamorphosis. The Fiber Art of Judith Scott. Collaboration with John M. MacGregor PhD. Oakland: 1977 Creative Growth Art Center., ISBN 0-9673160-0-6
AWARDS AND GRANTS • 1972/73 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund grant in the field of photography. • 1973/74 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund grant in the field of photography • 1974/75 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund grant in the field of photography. • 1987 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. • 1995 Society of Newspaper Design in Photojournalism for Sped Tribes for the NY Times Magazine. • 1995 11th American Photography in photojournalism for Sped Tribes for the NY Times Magazine. • 1995 1st Tokyo International Photo-Biennale. • 2003 The Small Change Foundation, San Francisco, California, for book One is Adam One is Superman. • 2003 California Council for the Humanities, for project Abled Artists: In Their Own Words.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS • 1976 Beth Katz Gallery, Haifa, Israel • 1977 University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel • 1984 Photographers' Gallery, London, Leon Borensztein • 1984 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon • 1985 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, Leon Borensztein: Portraits • 1986 School of Art and Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago Leon Borensztein • 1986 Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. Commitment to Vision • 1986 The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA. Portraits: Leon Borensztein, Michael Disfarmer. • 1987 Bay Vista Gallery, Miami, FL. • 1987 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 1987 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. Leon Borensztein Portrait Photographer. • 1988 Palais de Tokyo, organized by Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, France. • 1995 Center for Creative Growth, Oakland, CA. Leon Borensztein and his Friends • 2005 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. LEON BORENSZTEIN AND HIS FRIENDS • 2015 Smith Andersen North Gallery, San Rafael, CA.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS • 1971 Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel • 1972 University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel • 1972 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel • 1973 University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel • 1973 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel • 1974 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel • 1976 Beith Katz, Kiriat Bialik, Israel • 1983 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. • 1983 Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, What Artists Have to Say About Nuclear War • 1984 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. • 1985 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR. 10th Anniversary Exhibition • 1985 University of California, San Francisco, CA. Faculty Show • 1986 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR. • 1986 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco. CA. • 1986 Museum of Art, Eugene, OR. (A Commitment to Vision) • 1986 Aperture Foundation, "Mothers and Daughters" (traveling) • 1986 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 1987 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 1987 Tartt Gallery, Washington, DC. Animae Venatores (Hunters of the soul) • 1987 Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. • 1987 The Field Museum, Chicago, IL. Aperture Traveling exhibition “Mothers and Daughters” • 1988 Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. “Mothers and Daughters” • 1988 Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho “Mothers and Daughters” • 1988 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. CA. • 1988 Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, “Athletes: Photographs 1860-1989" • 1988 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. Cross Currents/Cross Country Photographs • 1988 Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Ma, Cross Currents/Cross Country Photographs • 1989 Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, Illinois “Mothers and Daughters” • 1989 New York State Museum, Albany, N.Y. “Mothers and Daughters” • 1989 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware “Mothers and Daughters” • 1989 Sioux City Art center, Sioux City, Iowa “Mothers and Daughters” • 1989 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, American Stories, Photographs by Leon Borensztein, Sage Sophier, and Joel Sternfield. • 1989 New York State Museum, Albany, NY. • 1989 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 1989 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware • 1989 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. • 1990 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH. “Mothers and Daughters” • 1990 Sheldon Memorial Art gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska “Mothers and Daughters” • 1990 Athletes, traveling exhibition sponsored by The Smithsonian Institute and International Center for Photography • 1990 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 1990 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH. • 1990 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. • 1991 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Past/Present: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. • 1991 Napa Valley Museum, Napa CA. People: photographs from the di Rosa Collection • 1992 Portraits of 20 Century, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. • 1992 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. • 1992 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 1994 Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR. Photographs from the di Rosa Collection • 1995 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, The 1st Tokyo International Photo – Biennale • 1995 Fotos Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 1996 Fernbank Museum, Atlanta, Georgia Medicines: The Inside Story • 1996 Portland State University, Portland, OR. Blue sky Gallery 20th Anniversary Exhibition. • 1996 Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA. San Francisco Art Institute: Fifty Years of Photography”. • 1996 G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Wedding Days: Images of Matrimony in Photography” • 1996 Osaka Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan “Wedding Days: Images of Matrimony in photography”. • 1996 Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan “Wedding Days: Images of Matrimony in photography”. • 1996 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan, “Wedding Days: Images of Matrimony in photography”. • 1996 Fukushima Nakagou, Fukoshima, Japan, “Wedding Days: Images of Matrimony in photography”. • 1996 Nagoya Matsusakaya, Aichi, Japan, “Wedding Days: Images of Matrimony in photography”. • 1996 Aomori Virre, Aomoir, Japan, “Wedding Days: Images of Matrimony in photography”. • 1997 Takamatsu Mitsukoshi. Kagawa, Japan “Wedding Days: Images of Matrimony, in photography”. • 1997 Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. “Prostitution” • 1997 di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA. • 1998 Faculty Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. pFORMative ACTS • 1999 Faculty Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Spirituality-Otherworldiness • 2000 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Paper Cuts • 2001 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. “About Face” • 2002 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA. 2002 center Award Juried Exhibition • 2002 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 2003 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 2004 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 2004 Musee de la Mode de Marseille, Marseille, France, “Glossy, modes et papier glace” • 2006 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 2007 ABCD Gallery, Montreuil, France • 2010 Museum Gugging, maria Gugging, Austria • 2011 Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California, Looking at Me Looking at You • 2011 Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, American Psyche: A Generation in Contemporary Photography. • 2011 Pier 24 Gallery, San Francisco, CA. • 2015 Michael Foley Gallery, NY.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Ill. • Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France • Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AR. • Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. • Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. • Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. • Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA. • Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan • di Rosa Preserve • B.P. America • First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
BOOKS Metamorphosis. The Fiber Art of Judith Scott. Collaboration with John M. MacGregor PhD. Oakland: 1977 Creative Growth Art Center., ISBN 0-9673160-0-6 One is Adam One is Superman. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, American Portraits 1979-1989. Portland, OR: Nazareli Press, 2011 ISBN 978-1-59005-305-8. Essay by Sandy Philips. Portraits ii. Portland, OR: Nazareli Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-59005-359-1 Sharon. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-86828-661-8
PUBLICATIONS • 1983 "Photographies Magazine", Numero 2, Paris, France • 1984 Leon Borensztein, Catalogue, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR. • 1985 "Photo", Paris, France • 1986 "San Francisco Observed", Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA. • 1986 "ZYZZYVA", San Francisco, CA. • 1986 "Commitment to Vision", Museum of Art, Eugene, OR. • 1986 "J.A.C.O.B.S'" Letter, San Francisco, CA. • 1987 "Mothers and Daughters", Aperture, NY. • 1987 "Athletes", A. Knopf, NY. • 1988 "Cliches", No. 47, July, Paris, France • 1988 "Cross Country, Cross Currents", San Francisco / Boston • 1989 "Dogs Days", Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA. • 1989 "Photo Magazine", February, Paris, France • 1990 "ZYZZYVA", San Francisco, CA. • 1991 "Dog Prints", Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA. • 1994 "The New York Times Magazine", NY. • 1994 "Lifelines", Dutton Children Books, NY. • 1995 "American Photography", NY. • 1995 "Harper's Magazine", June, NY. • 1995 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Catalog • 1995 "ZYZZYVA" Tenth-Anniversary Issue, San Francisco, CA. • 1995 "Nippon Camera", August, Tokyo, Japan • 1996 Life Magazine, December, NY. • 1999 "Local Colors", The di Rosa Collection of Contemporary • 1999 California Art. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA. • 2007 l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland • 2003 “Touching Feeling”, Duke University Press, Durham • 2009 Witness Number Seven, Joy of Giving Something Inc. Nazraeli Press, ISBN 978-1-59005-244-0 • 2010 “Judith”, Museum Gugging, Austria • 2011 Here, Pier 24 Photography, Catalog, San Francisco, CA. ISBN: 978-0-9839917-0-0 • 2011 “American Psyche” Catalog, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi, India • 2016 SHOTS 131, USA • 2016 GUP Magazine, Amsterdam, Holland ISSN 1871-8450
PHOTOGRAPHS IN MOVIES
• 1991 "Challenge Anneka" TV program ABC 1, England
• 1997 "Mothers and Daughters" documentary film, ABC, USA
TEACHING POSITIONS • 2004-Present, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco • 2004 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland • 2002 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco • 2000 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco • 1998 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco • 1994 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco • 1991 The Friends of Photography, Annual Member Workshop • 1986 University of California, Berkeley • 1979 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco • 1975-7 Art Department, University of Haifa
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