JENNIFER MARMAN & DANIEL BORINS
134 Harrison Street
Toronto, ON M6J 2A4
416 566 6267 / 647 400 2271
daniel.borins@gmail.com / jennifer.marman@gmail.com
Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins are Toronto-based artists who have been collaborating together for ten years.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Upcoming solo exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
2011 Solo Booth, Georgia Scherman Projects at Volta 7, Basel Switzerland
Unknown Unknowns, Ed Video, Guelph, Canada and Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora Canada
2010 Total Disinformation Awareness, Launch Projects, Santa Fe, USA
Solo Booth, Georgia Scherman Projects at Volta6, Basel, Switzerland
Set Re-Set, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada
2009 Project for a New American Century, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
Massive Sale: YYZ Mall, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Canada
2008 Wha Happened?, TPW Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Solo Booth (Independent Section), Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA
2007 Event Horizon, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2006 In Sit You, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, Canada
2005 Solo Booth (Independent Section), Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA
2004 Solo Booth, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Of Ideas, 1080 Bus, Toronto, Canada
2003 Apotheoses of Everything, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
2000 Floor Show, 1080 BUS, Toronto, Canada
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2013 Dodecadandy, Commissioned by City of Toronto and Toronto Transit Commission, Downsview Subway
Station, Toronto, Canada
2011 Wave Side, Commissioned by Plazacorp, West Harbour City Phase 2, 21 Grand Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2009 Google, Commissioned by the Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Tuesday, curated by Mr. and Mrs. Amani Olu, Mixed Greens, New York, USA
2010 In Sit You, Beyond In Western New York Biennial, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Everything Must Go, Special Project, Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Status Update, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada
Variety Show: A Pleasure Dome Sampler, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
Meeting Point, Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
2009 The Leona Drive Project, The Public Access Collective, Toronto, Canada
Zero Grau, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
True Lies, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada
Meeting Point, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
The Communism of Forms, Art Gallery of York University, and Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto, Canada
2008 Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Code Red Green Blue, Ed Video, Guelph, Canada
2007 Dots, Pulses and Loops, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
The Communism of Forms, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
A Gentil Carioca, Rio Dijaneiro, Brazil; Appetite, Buenos Aries, Argentina
Group Sculpture Show, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2006 Loud Meat, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2005 Brisk Collages and Bricolages, Artistic Audits of Mainstream Media in Recent Canadian Shorts, Mount Saint
Vincent University, Halifax, Canada
2004 ID International @ Art Basel Miami, Dot Fifty-One Art Space, Miami, USA
Constructive Folly, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
Diversity in the Arts, Spark Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
VS. Video Re-mixing, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
Truth, Lies and Video Art, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Canada
Self-Defecating Theatre of Cruelty, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Coup d’Etat, Spark International, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
Browse By Idea, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
2003 Prefabricating Postproduction, Virus Arts, Toronto, Canada
Blister in the Sun, Gallery Neubacher, Toronto, Canada
This is Paradise, Peter Richmond Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Old Habits Die Hard, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany; Norwich Gallery, England; Hamburger Bahnhof,
Berlin, Germany; Kunstnernes Hus, Olso, Norway; Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Toronto New Works Show, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
Mix Tape, Spark International, Syracuse University, NY, USA
You're Soaking In It, Images Festival, Toronto, ON Canada
2002 New Directions, Mind Control, Toronto, Canada
Anonmylous Media, alevel-Revolver, Toronto, Canada
Mercer Living, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
The Jennifer Show, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Wreck Room, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Status - Anti Status, West Wing, Toronto, Canada
Anniversary Exhibition, Art System, Toronto, Canada
2001 The Machine and the Flesh, Art System, Toronto, Canada
Landescape, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Yoni Lingham Ma Cro Ma / Lingham Yoni Lo Cro Ma, alevel Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Good Medium Bad, Art System, Toronto, Canada
Miniature Show, Instant Coffee Urban Disco Trailer Group Show, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Toronto New Works Show, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
2000 Long Table Jihad, alevel Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Re-negotiating Space, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
Christmas In July, Art System, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2010 Hatley, Pam and Martin, Pamela, Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents, The Buffalo Fine
Arts Academy, Buffalo, 2010
2009 Monk, Philip, The Prisoner: Marman and Borins’ Project for a New American Century, Art Gallery of York
University, Toronto, ON, 2009.
Arantes, Priscila and Oliva, Fernando, Grau Zero, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
Miller, Earl, Meeting Point, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, ON,
2009, pp.25-26, 58; colour plates pp 30-1.
2008 Drouin-Brisebois, Josée, Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,
ON, 2008, pp.23-25, 65-69, 254; colour plates pp. 274-285.
2005 Cammaer, Gerda J. Brisk Collages & Bricolages; Artistic audits & creative revisions of mainstream media in
recent Canadian shorts, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, 2005.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Wilson-Powell, Malin, Art Star Couple: Canadian duo stir things up with provocative installations, Albuquerque
Journal, Nov 12, 2010
Molla, Rani. Tour de Force: Exhibition Fights for Fright, Santa Fe Reporter, Nov 10, 2010
The Pieta - boundary breaking image, Sleek, Spring 2010, No 25, p. 29
2009 Milroy, Sarah. The year artists made big splashes in small ponds, The Globe and Mail, Dec 30, 2009
Portis, Ben. Finders Keepers: Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins’ post-revolutionary take on the vernacular,
Canadian Art, Fall 2009, pp. 116-120
Murray Whyte, A Hilarious and Perplexing Show, Toronto Star, Sep 8, 2009
Rodgers, Kevin. Project for a New American Century, Border Crossings, Issue No. 111, pp. 122-24
Delgado, Jérôme. L’expo taquine, Le Devoir, Saturday, Jun 20, 2009.
Goddard, Peter. Artists prove that two is a crowd, Toronto Star, Apr 23, 2009.
Carson, Andrea. Toronto: "Best Show in Years", http://viewoncanadianart.com/2009/03/17/toronto-best-show-
in-years/, Mar 17, 2009
Halkes, Petra. Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer, Border Crossings, Vol. 28 No. 1, Feb 2009.
Sandals, Leah. Daniel Borins & Jennifer Marman: Another New American Century, www.canadianart.ca/online, Jan 29, 2009.
2008 Corvese, Rhonda. Daniel Borins & Jennifer Marman, Canadian Art Magazine, Fall 2008.
Taylor, Kate. To See This Art Is To Make This Art, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, November 8, 2008.
Jager, David. Disorienting Dadaist Stew, Now Magazine, Issue 1357, Vol 27, No. 21: 79, January 2008.
Dault, Gary Michael. A Cacophony of Meaning, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, January 19, 2008.
Sayej, Nadja, Going out, things to do and people to see in T.O. this week: Gallery TPW, Wha Happened?,
The Globe and Mail, January 12, 2008.
2007 Goddard, Peter. Ten to Watch This Year 2008, Toronto Star, Sunday, December 30, 2007.
Balzer, David. The Year in Art, Eye Weekly, December 27, 2007.
Dault, Gary Michael. Making Space for Sculpture, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, August 18, 2007.
2006 Goddard, Peter. The Art of the Message, Toronto Star, Thursday, October 12, 2006.
2005 Singh, Camilla. Constructive Folly, Canadian Art Magazine, Spring 2005.
Rhodes, Richard. Editor’s Profile of the Presence Meter, Canadian Art Magazine, Winter 2005.
2003 Banks, Wendy. Visceral Vids, Now Magazine, Vol. 23 NO. 15, December 2003.
Portis, Ben. Prefabricating Postproduction, Canadian Art, Vol. 20 No. 4, Winter 2003
Hirschman, Thomas. Hot Young Blood, Now Magazine, VOL. 22 No. 44, July 2003.
Hirschman, Thomas. This Is Paradise, Now Magazine, VOL. 22 No. 32, April 2003.
2001 Demkiw, Janis. Humiliating the Cube: The Pop and Parcel of Jennifer Marman, MIX Magazine, Vol. 26, No.3,
Winter 2000-2001
Artist Run Culture: The MultiMedia Dome, MIX Magazine, Vol. 26, No.3, Winter 2000-2001.
2000 Hirschman, Thomas. Christmas in July, National Post, Saturday, August 5, 2000.
Artist Run Culture: Water Filter Sculpture, MIX Magazine, Vol. 25, No.3, Winter 1999-2000.
LECTURES / PANELS / CONFERENCES / ART EVENTS & PERFORMANCE
2011 Underground Laboratory, Lecture / Workshop, Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora, Canada
We can go here, or we can go there, Artist Talk, The Artist Project, Toronto, Canada
Nuit Blanche, Panel Discussion, Toronto Alliance of Art Critics, Toronto, Canada
Artist Talk, Sterling Hall School, Toronto, Canada
2010 Lecture, York University, Toronto, Canada
Does Nuit Blanche influence the art market?, Panel Discussion, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2009 Lecture, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Artist Talk, The Leona Drive Project, Toronto, Canada
Room for Wonder, Panel Discussion, upArt, Toronto, Canada
Studio Visits, York University, Toronto, Canada
Lecture, York University, Toronto, Canada
2008 Installation, Art Gallery of Ontario Massive Party, Toronto, Canada
Performance, Art Gallery of York University Performance Bus, Toronto, Canada
2007 Lecture, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada
2005 Future Suspects, Panel Discussion, Alphabet City Festival, Toronto, Canada
Artist Residencies in Toronto and Berlin, Panel Discussion, Goethe-Institut, Toronto, Canada
2004 Lecture, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, Canada
Lecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
Lecture, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada
2003 Collaborations, Panel Discussion, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Lecture, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
The Generation Gap, Panel Discussion, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Hubub), Toronto, Canada
2002 Think/Again Excellence Awards, Lecture, The Millennium Foundation, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
AWARDS
2009 Ontario Arts Council, Media Artists: Mid-Career and Established Program Grant, Ontario, Canada
2005 Canada Council, Emerging Artist Grant -- Sculpture, Canada
2003 Steam Whistle Arts Awards & CCA, Forward Thinking Award, 2003, Toronto, Canada
Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant – Sculpture, Toronto, Canada
Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant – Sculpture, Ontario, Canada
2001 Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant – Sculpture, 2001, Toronto, ON
Canada Council, Emerging Artist Grant -- Sculpture, 2001, Canada
Ontario College of Art & Design, Fourth Year Sculpture Award, 2001, Toronto, ON
2000 Dumaurier Arts Council, Sculpture Prize, 2000, ON, Canada
1999 Ontario College of Art & Design, Third Year Video Prize, 1999, Toronto, Canada
1998 Ontario College of Art & Design, William F. White Prize, 1998, Toronto, Canada
1997 Ontario College of Art & Design, Foundation Year Scholarship, 1997, Toronto, Canada
COLLECTIONS - PUBLIC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Schulich School of Business York University, Toronto, ON
City of Toronto, Toronto, ON
EDUCATION
Marman and Borins graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2001. Prior to that, Marman received a
BA in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, and Borins received a BA in Art History from McGill
University.