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Born in 1957 in Brattleboro, VT, United States


1981-82, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1981, B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

1977-79, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA


"A Mantra is a sound used for focus in meditation. A Yantra is a visual mantra. Pictographs which have visual content change their definition by the context they appear in. My work can be described as yantric entities subject to contextual redefinition.

I consider art from all cultures and moments in time equally as inspiration. My search for source material has taken me to many museums and archeological sites throughout the Americas. Pre-Columbian design, Asian landscape painting, pictographic languages, mask abstractions, and Duchampian thought are all influences. Painting, sculpture, and site-specific installation have all been expressive modes

It is a gypsy's collection of spirit visions and shamanic memories."

Scot Borofsky, July 2000

  • Selected Solo Exhibitions
    • 1999: Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York, NY, Raft of the Medusa

    • 1996: William Hays Gallery, Brattleboro, VT

    • 1994: Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT

    • 1991: Visionary Gallery, New York, NY

    • 1989: Museum of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

    • 1988: Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY

    • 1986: Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY

    • 1985: Casa Nada Gallery, New York, NY

    • 1983: LIFE Cafe, New York, NY, Collage Constructions

    • 1982: Seventeenth Street Gallery, New York, NY, Collage-Paintings

    • 1981: Bank Building Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Paintings of Flowers


  • Selected Group Exhibitions
    • 1999:
        Lamia Ink, New York, NY, Radiant Children: Art of the East Village

        LIFE Cafe, New York, NY, Land of 1000 Galleries: Art from the East Village

        Fine Arts Gallery NIKE, New York, NY

    • 1997:
        Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, VT

        De Arte Magick, Easton, PA

    • 1993: Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

    • 1991: Visionary Gallery, New York, NY

    • 1989:
        Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL

        O.I.A., New York, NY, Rainforest Benefit Show

    • 1988:
        La Casa del Lago, Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, New York Painters

    • 1987:
        Elaine Benson Gallery, East Hampton, NY

        Karl Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    • 1986: Nada Gallery, New York, NY, Crack, The Whore of Babylon

    • 1985:
        ABC No Rio, New York, NY, Contemporary Primitive

        Now Gallery, New York, NY, Micro Waves


    • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

    • Museum of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

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    Selection of works from Scot Borofsky

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    Read what the press is saying about Scot Borofsky

    • Cover Magazine. February 1999.

    • “Art As Heroic Symbolism: Borofky's 'Mountain Series' in Springfield.” Rutland Daily Herald. December 5, 1994.

    • Davenport, Charlet. “Brattleboro Museum/Brattleboro Crosscurrents of Influence.” Art New England. December 1993/January 1994.

    • Brattleboro Daily Reformer. 1992.

    • Leisure Weekly. January 1991.

    • Hi-Fashion. January 1990.

    • Art Cellar Exchange. March 1989.

    • Mexico City News. February 24, 1989.

    • Art in America. July 1988.

    • “El Arte Callejero.” La Journada. February 1988.

    • Mexico City News. February 16, 1988.

    • “Artist's Statement.” Cover Magazine. 1987.

    • “The Way It Was.” Art News. December 1987.

    • 108, An East Village Review. November 1986.

    • Zimmer, William. “A Rarefied Atmosphere in the Feisty East Village.” The New York Times. November 7, 1986.

    • Boettger, Suzaan. “Scot Borofsky, Mokotoff Gallery.” Artforum. July 1985.

    • Arts Magazine. January 1986.

    • “Dreams, Rituals and Artifacts.” East Village Eye. 1985.

    • “Graffiti Artists, N.Y.C.” The Villager. 1984.

    • “New York Grafitti Artists.” L'Art Vivant. 1984.

    • Noticias de Arte. March 1982.

    • Brattleboro Daily Reformer. 1982.