JENNIFER MARMAN & DANIEL BORINS

Jennifer and Daniel are a Toronto-based collaborative duo of artists who
have been working together since 1999.

Education
Marman and Borins both 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.

Forthcoming Exhibitions
2011 Solo exhibition, Ed Video, Guelph, ON, Canada (May 16 – June
30, Opening reception: Thursday, May 20th)
Public commission, Waveside, Plazacorp, West Harbour City,
Toronto, ON, Canada (Spring)
Solo exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
(Fall)
2012 Outdoor installation, Dodecadandy, York University Busway
Project, Downsview Station, Toronto Transit Commission,
Toronto, ON, Canada

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 Tuesday, curated by Mr. and Mrs. Amani Olu, Mixed Greens, New
York, NY, USA
2010 Total Disinformation Awareness, Launch Projects, Santa Fe, NM,
USA
Solo project, Georgia Scherman Projects at VOLTA6, Basel,
Switzerland
Set Re-set, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada (essays
by Earl Miller and Ben Portis)
2009 Project For A New American Century, Art Gallery of York
University, Toronto, Canada (catalogue with essay by curator
Philip Monk)
Massive Sale: YYZ Mall, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, solo residency and
exhibition
Etobicoke House, part of The Leona Drive Project, curators Janine
Marchessault and Michael Propokow
2008 Solo Booth (Independent Section), Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM,
USA
Wha Happened?, TPW Gallery, Toronto, Canada
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,
NM, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 In Sit You, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA, as part of
“Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents”
(catalogue)
Everything Must Go, Art Toronto, Metro Toronto Convention
Centre, Toronto, Canada, a special project by Jeremy Laing,
28-1 October/November
Some Enchanted Evenings, Nuit Blanche 5th Year
Retrospective, Scotia Plaza, Toronto, Canada, October
Status Update, curated by Shauna Thompson, Doris McCarthy
Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough, ON, Canada
Variety Show: A Pleasure Dome Sampler, Presented by Videographe,
Cinemateque quebecoise, Montréal, Canada
Meeting Point, curated by Earl Miller, travelling to Kenderdine Art
Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
2009 Caught in the Act: Viewer as Performer, The National Gallery
of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (catalogue)
True Lies, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada
Meeting Point, Doris McCarthy Gallery, curated by Earl Miller,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
The Communism of Forms, Art Gallery of York University, and
Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto, Canada
International Exhibition of Video Works/Images Festival
2007 Dots, Pulses and Loops, The National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa, Canada
Group Sculpture Show, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
The Communism of Form, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo,
Brazil; A Gentil Carioca, Rio Dijaneiro, Brazil; Appetite, Buenos
Aries, Argentina
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, NS, Canada
2004 ID International @ Art Basel Miami, Dot FiftyOne Art Space,
Miami, FL, USA
Solo Spaces, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Constructive Folly, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of
Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
Diversity in the Arts, Spark Gallery, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, USA
Of Ideas, 1080 Bus, Toronto, Canada
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, NY, USA
Browse By Idea, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON,
Canada
2003 Prefabricating Postproduction, Virus Arts, Toronto, Canada
Blister in the Sun, Gallery Neubacher, Toronto, Canada
This is Paradise, Peter Richmond Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Apotheoses of Everything, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
Mix Tape, Spark International, Syracuse University, Syracuse,
NY, USA
You're Soaking In It, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Old Habits Die Hard, travelling 2003 through 2005:
Sparwasser HQ, Berlin; Norwich Gallery, GB; Hamburger
Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Kunstnernes Hus, Olso, Norway;
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul, Turkey;
Motorenhalle, Dresden; Yeans/Rex/Galleri Box Kungshöjd,
Goteborg, Sweden; Art in General, New York, NY, USA;
Goethe Institute, New York, NY, USA
Toronto New Works Show, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
The Generation Gap, The Power Plant Contemporary Art
Gallery (Hubub), Toronto, 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 Anniversary Exhibition, alevel Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Status - Anti Status, West Wing, Toronto, Canada
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
Toronto New Works Show, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
Good Medium Bad, Art System, Toronto, Canada
2001 Miniature Show, Instant Coffee Urban Disco Trailer Group
Show, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Long Table Jihad, alevel Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Re-negotiating Space, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
Christmas In July, Art System, Toronto, Canada
Floor Show, 1080 BUS, Toronto, Canada
The Green Show, Money-House Foundation, Toronto, Canada
The Good Bad and the Ugly, Art System, Toronto, Canada

Selected Publications
2009 The Prisoner: Marman and Borins’ Project for A New American
Century. Philip Monk. Toronto, ON, Canada: Art Gallery of
York University
Meeting Point. Essay by Earl Miller. Toronto, ON, Canada:
Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough,
pp. 25-6, 58; colour plates pp. 30-1
2008 Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer. Essay by Josee
Drouin-Brisebois. Ottawa, ON, Canada: The National Gallery of
Canada, p. 23-5, 65-69, 254; colour plates pp. 274-85
2005 Cammaer, Gerda J. “Brisk Collages & Bricolages; Artistic
audits & creative revisions of mainstream media in recent
Canadian shorts.” Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS,
Canada

Selected Bibliography
2010 Wilson-Powell, Malin. “Art Sat Couple,” Albuquerque Journal:
Journal North, 12 November
Molla, Rani. “Tour de Force: Exhibition Fights for Fright,”
Santa Fe Reporter, 11 November
Molla, Rani. “Total Disinformation Awareness,” Santa Fe
Reporter, 4 November
McLaughlin, Bryne. “Beyond/In Western New York: Buffalo
Stance,” www.canadianart.ca, 30 September
“The Pieta – boundary breaking image,” Sleek, No. 25, p. 29, Spring
2009 Portis, Ben. “Finders Keepers: Jennifer Marman and Daniel
Borins’s post-revolutionary take on the vernacular,” Canadian
Art, pp. 116-120, Fall
Milroy, Sarah. “The year artists made big splashes in small
ponds,” The Globe and Mail, 30 December
Murray Whyte, “A Hilarious and Perplexing Show,” Toronto
Star, 8 September
Rodgers, Kevin. “Project for a New American Century,” Border
Crossings, Issue No. 111, pp. 122-24
Halkes, Petra. “Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer.”
Border Crossings, Issue No. 109, pp. 96-99
Sandals, Leah. “Daniel Borins & Jennifer Marman: Another
New American Century.” canadianart.ca/online, 29 January
Burman, Monika. “Tortured Artists.” Mass Art Guide, pp. 10-11
(cover), February
Goddard, Peter. “Artists prove that two is a crowd,” The
Toronto Star, p. E6, 23 April
Lacerte, Sylvie. “Toujours spectateurs,” etc revue de l’art
actuel, Issue 87, September/October/November
2008 Corvese, Rhonda. “Daniel Borins & Jennifer Marman.”
Canadian Art Magazine, Fall
Taylor, Kate. “To See This Art Is To Make This Art.” The Globe
and Mail, Saturday, 8 November
Jager, David. “Disorienting Dadaist Stew.” Now Magazine,
Issue 1357, Vol. 27, No. 21: 79, January
Dault, Gary Michael. “A Cacophony of Meaning.” The Globe
and Mail, Saturday, 19 January
Sayej, Nadja. “Going out, things to do and people to see in
T.O. this week: Gallery TPW, Wha Happened?” The Globe and
Mail, 12 January
2007 Goddard, Peter. “Ten to Watch This Year 2008,” Toronto Star,
Sunday, 30 December
Balzer, David. “The Year in Art.” Eye Weekly, 27 December
Dault, Gary Michael. “Making Space for Sculpture.” The Globe
and Mail, Saturday, 18 August
2006 Goddard, Peter. “The Art of the Message.” Toronto Star,
Thursday, 12 October
2005 Singh, Camilla. “Constructive Folly.” Canadian Art Magazine,
Spring
Rhodes, Richard. “Editor’s Profile of the Presence Meter.”
Canadian Art Magazine, Winter
2003 Banks, Wendy. “Visceral Vids.” Now Magazine, Vol. 23 No. 15,
December
Portis, Ben. “Prefabricating Postproduction.” Canadian Art, Vol.
20, No. 4, Winter
Hirschman, Thomas. “Hot Young Blood.” Now Magazine, Vol.
22, No. 44, July
Jordan, Betty Ann. “Prefabricating Postproduction.” Toronto
Life, June
Hirschman, Thomas. “This Is Paradise.” Now Magazine, Vol.
22, No. 32, April
2002 Sheppard, Samantha. “Interview.” Pursuit Magazine, March
2001 Demkiw, Janis. “Humiliating the Cube: The Pop and Parcel of
Jennifer Marman.” MIX Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 3, Winter
Artist Run Culture: “The MultiMedia Dome.” MIX Magazine,
Vol. 26, No. 3, Winter
2000 Hirschman, Thomas. “Christmas in July.” National Post,
Saturday, 5 August
Artist Run Culture: “Water Filter Sculpture.” MIX Magazine,
Vol. 25, No. 3, Winter
Selected Commissions
2010 "Land-Escape", a large-scale installation, Canada Blooms,
Toronto, Canada
Selected Lectures/Panels
2011 Lecture, We Can Go Here, or We Can Go There, The Artist
Project, Toronto, ON, Canada, 3-6 March
2010 Panel Discussion, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada, 29
Seeptember
2007 Lecture, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada,
March
2005 Artist Residencies in Toronto and Berlin, Panel Discussion,
Goethe-Institut, Toronto, Canada, April
2004 Lecture, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, ON,
Canada, October
Lecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, April
Lecture, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada,
February
2003 Collaborations, Panel Discussion, Toronto International Art
Fair, Toronto, Canada, November
Lecture, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, October
The Generation Gap. The Power Plant Contemporary Art
Gallery (Hubub), Toronto, Canada, July
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, Canada
2005 Canada Council, Emerging Artist Grant Sculpture, Canada
2003 Steam Whistle Arts Awards & Canadian Centre for
Contemporary Art, Forward Thinking Award, Toronto, ON,
Canada
Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant – Sculpture,
Toronto, Canada
Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant – Sculpture,
Canada
2001 Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant – Sculpture,
Toronto, Canada
Canada Council, Emerging Artist Grant Sculpture, Canada
Ontario College of Art & Design, Fourth Year Sculpture Award,
Toronto, Canada
2000 Dumaurier Arts Council, Sculpture Prize, Toronto, Canada
1999 Ontario College of Art & Design, Third Year Video Prize,
Toronto, Canada
1998 Ontario College of Art & Design, William F. White Prize,
Toronto, Canada
1997 Ontario College of Art & Design, Foundation Year Scholarship,
Toronto, Canada

Selected Public Collections
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada