Photography/Mixed Media

Works on Pain series

Print series

Home series

Contact Information

tel: 201-787-9508
e-mail:
www.kathrynb.net
www.kateborbas.tumblr.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement

Kathryn Borbas is a 23-year old photographer and mixed media artist working towards her BFA at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Most of her work conceptually faces her nearly decade-long battle with chronic pain conditions. Exploring the perpetual struggle against ones own body, a journey towards relief from a variety of agonizing sensations, and most of all the complexities of adapting to a life with a pain so awful it never ceases. She creates work as layered and unique as the pain itself. Borbas’ work is almost exclusively made up of self-portraiture, using art as a cathartic means of examining her situation and the limitations of photography itself, describing a condition that is utterly invisible. Creating her own aesthetic language she continually challenges how pain and struggle can be visually represented.

Education

2010
University of the Arts. Philadelphia, PA
BFA candidate, Photography

Honors and Awards

2010
The Print Center Award

2008 – 2010
Dean’s List, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Promising Artist Grant

Exhibitions

2010
Illness, Art and Healing, Riverdale Art Center, Riverdale, NJ

Photos with Words, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT

BED Two, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY

UArts Senior Awards Exhibition, Hamilton Hall, Philadelphia, PA

38, Hamilton Hall, Philadelphia, PA

38, 2424 Studios, Philadelphia, PA

2009
My Face in Your Space, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Pain and Creativity Exhibit, American Pain Foundation, Baltimore, DE

Greenehouse Studios Presents, Greenehouse Studios, Philadelphia PA

Recent Work, Sol Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Blackwell Street Annual Juried Show, The Atrium, Dover, NJ