Alexandra Borovski
Alexandra Borovski is an interdisciplinary artist born in Chișinău, Moldova, raised in the Midwest, and currently based in Queens, New York. Her work explores migration, memory, and the unconscious. Using antique ledger paper as a substrate, her drawings live between record-keeping and world-building.
885 (Trucks) | 2025 | Colored pencil and ink on antique graph paper | 8 × 11 inches | $1200
Apple Core | 2021 | ink on antique ledger paper | 11 x 14 inches | $800 ( frame include) (SOLD)
Clock | 2021 | ink on antique ledger paper | 11 x 14 inches | $800 (frame include)
MOTHER SHIP-#1 | 2021 | ink on antique-ledger-paper | 11x14 inches | 800USD
PANTS | 2021 | ink on antique ledger paper | 11 x 14 inches | 800USD
two-planets | 2021 | ink on antique ledger paper | 11 x 14 inches | 800USD
Solo Exhibitions
“Object Library,” Stephen Street Gallery, New York, NY (2024)
“Pleasure Ledger,” Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE (2021)
Selected Group Exhibitions
“Horror Vacui,” Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE (2025)
“Luminaria,” Flux Factory, Governors Island, New York, NY (2024)
“Fallow Frames Biennial,” Ridgewood, New York, NY (2024)
“Fallow Frames (2),” PS122, New York, NY (2024)
“I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws,” Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (2024)
“Fallow Frames (1),” Stephen Street Gallery, Ridgewood, NY (2023)
“Please and Thank You,” VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY (2020)
“The Skin Has Eyes,” Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (2019)
“Intern,” Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE (2019)
“You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory,” VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY (2019)
“Inaugural Exhibition,” VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY (2019)
“High Low,” Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA (2017)
“MFA Thesis Exhibition,” Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (2015)
“Convergence Part II,” Khaki Gallery, Boston, MA (2015)
“We Breathing,” Spontaneous Celebrations, Boston, MA (2015)
“Out of In Focus,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (2012)
“Sight/Non-Sight,” Parallax Space, Lincoln, NE (2011)
“Bemis Center Regional Exhibition,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (2011)
Awards, Recognition, and Residencies
Queens Art Fund (2024)
Wassaic Project Artist Residency (2023)
New York City Artist Corps Grant (2022)
Ox-Bow / School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Conversations in Practice (Full Scholarship) (2022)
SMFA Teaching Fellowship (2014)
SMFA Recognition Scholarship (2013)
SMFA Incentive Scholarship (2013)
Emerging Artist Award, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (2011)
Press
Art Spiel Picks: New York City Exhibitions in October (2024)
5 Ukrainian Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram, The New York Times (2022)
Went There: The Skin Has Eyes, Boston Hassle (2019)
Maya Erdelyi on the Magic of Animation, Boston Art Review (2019)
Underground But Not Under the Radar, omaha.net (2011)