b. 1988, Columbus, OH
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 In The Wind, Devening Projects, Chicago, IL
2025 Works on Paper, TW Fine Art, Queensland, Australia
2024 Deep End, Cuff & Post, Chicago, IL
2022 Heat Rash, Folio, Green Bay, WI
2019 Larissa Borteh & Jan Christopher-Berkson, Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL
Another Trap Door, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
2014 Recent Works: Steve McClure and Larissa Borteh, Renate Albertsen-Marton Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Uninhibited Exuberance, Harlem Studios, New York, NY
2010 Two Parts Rabbit, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2009 Walk Of Shame, The Williamsburg Bridge, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 The Persistence Of Beauty, Nino Mier Gallery, New York, NY
The Mind’s I: Personal Structures: Confluences, Palazzo Mora, collateral exhibition to the 2026 Venice
Biennale, European Cultural Centre, Venice, Italy
What’s The Story, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
A Catalogue of Inquires: The Contemporary Surreal, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2025 I Am The Sun, Side Street Studio Arts, Chicago, IL
2024 Dance This Mess Around, Patient Info, Chicago, IL
2022 …And The Pursuit Of, The Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, IL
2021 Bilingual: Abstract & Figurative, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
2020 Summer Gala, Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL
2019 Paper 2019, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
(curated by Jennifer Farrell, Associate Curator of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC)
Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2018 New Work, The Carl, Chicago, IL
2017 Sockpile Jones, The Carl, Chicago, IL
Gødbottom, The Condo Association, Chicago, IL
Disclosed / Undisclosed, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Like Your Work, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fight or Flight, The Painting Center, New York, NY
The Mind's I, Organized by Anne Harris, Ed Paschke Art Center, Chicago, IL
Animal Farm, Dalton Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Pliocene Park, Site Red, Chicago, IL
East Meets West, TWFine Art, Brisbane, Australia
Ljós, Gallery Sím, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015 Baudrillard’s America, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
Duck Show, Minotaur Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Not Or, But And, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
SAIC Graduate Exhibition, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Global Positioning Systems (Green Acres), EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
(Select exhibition organized by Amanda Ross-Ho)
Pen Pal, Cranbrook Art Museum, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Visual Arts Showcase, Union League Civic & Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
2012 Under 30, Skylight Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Feed 2011 Biennial, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Art Protects, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY
Small Works Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Borteh, Gaydos, Welshman, Skylight Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, The Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury, MD
Private I, Skylight Gallery, New York, NY
SVA Alumni Exhibition: 1965-2010, Palisades Park Multimedia Center, Palisades Park, NJ
Open Studios, The School Of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Etchings, Woodcuts, Linocuts, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Open Studios, The School Of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Future Works and Processes, Collective Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Foundation Drawing Exhibition, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Foundation Sculpture Exhibition, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2006 Ohio Art Exhibition, Ohio Department of Education, Columbus, OH
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Cow House Studios Open Artist Residency, Enniscorthy, Ireland
2023 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2022 White Columns Curated Artist Registry, White Columns, New York, NY
2019 Ace Hotel Artist in Residency (A.I.R.), Ace Hotel, Chicago, IL
2017 Kunstnarhuset Messen Residency, Ålvik, Norway
2016 The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM) Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015 Leon Levy Foundation Grant
2015 MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH
2014 George and Ann Siegel Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2014 Painting and Drawing Teaching Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2014 Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation Prize Nominee, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2013 Steketee Scholarship, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2013 Visual Arts Honorarium, Union League Civic & Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL
2012 - 2014 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Grant Recipient, Chicago, IL
2012 George and Isabel Brown Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2011 Viewing Program, Artist Registry, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2011 Dave Bown Projects Award, New York, NY
2011 Vermont Studio Center artists and writers residency, Fellowship Award, Johnson, VT
SELECTED PRESS
Yau, John. “The In-Between Worlds of Larissa Borteh” Hyperallergic, 26 May. 2026.
Cirdain, Journie. “Sensual Defects: A Review of ‘Dance This Mess Around’ at Patient Info.” Newcity Art, 14 Mar. 2024.
“TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (1/25-1/31).” BAD AT SPORTS, Visualist Chicago, 25 Jan. 2024.
Calobrisi, Amanda Joy. “The Quarantined Artist Part II: Home To You.” ADF Webmagazine, 20 June 2020.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Associate Professor, Adjunct, Chicago, IL 2014 – Present
EDUCATION
2014 MFA, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2010 BFA, Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY