Rosamunde Bordo

Rosamunde Bordo is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator currently based on the unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlil̓wətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh territories/Vancouver, BC. She induces mysterious narratives through multimedia installations that may include sculpture, textiles, sound, video,  performance, drawing, and writing. Since 2018, she has been creating installments in an unfolding project called The Denise File, which she characterizes as a work of serial detective fiction that is written through physical space and material. The project orients itself around an enigmatic split-subject named Denise, who becomes increasingly more real through artistic interventions and creations, but by the same process of invention is paradoxically more fictitious. Recent solo exhibitions connected to this project include Morning Star at the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery (Vancouver), and The Relationship Without Images at PoMoArts (Port Moody, BC).

Bordo holds an MFA in Visual Art from UBC, and BA Honours in Liberal Arts and Print Media from Concordia University, Montréal. Recent group exhibitions include CSA Space (Vancouver), the Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery (Vancouver), and Ymuno (Montréal). She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Canada Council for the Arts, the Kwi Am Choi Scholarship, the Audain Travel Award, and the Joan Wright Hassell Prize in Visual Arts. She currently teaches print media at UBC as a Sessional Lecturer.