Elena Borstein

American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - Aboard The Miulis

1980

Elena Borstein is an American artist born in 1946 who lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains, USA. She received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore College and her M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Professor Emerita from York College (CUNY). Borstein’s works are included in numerous major collections including: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Hayden Museum at MIT, Cam bridge, MA, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ. Her works has also been in many solo and group exhibitions both in this country and abroad including: American Realism at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Three Exhibits at the Bronx Museum, and New Acquisitions at the Everson Museum, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and the McNay Art Institute in San Antonio, Texas. She was also part of the Washington D.C. Corcoran Gallery’s traveling exhibition called The Liberation - 14 American Artists which traveled to 11 countries. Borstein is the recipient of a Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.