Artist Statement Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins have practised sculpture, installation, and media art in Toronto as a collaboration since 2000
Jennifer Marman is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario. Daniel Borins is a graduate of McGill University. Both Marman and Borins also graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design. The work of Marman and Borins is often intervention based—situating the visual arts within the context of everyday life, while simultaneously referring to aspects of the history of twentieth century art. Their work also questions ideas pertaining to authenticity. By combining these threads, their projects identify tensions that arise in the politicization, historicization, and visuality of the artwork, often within the context of mass visual language, mass media, consumerism, and the way in which images circulate in the information age. Recent exhibitions of their work include their second solo show with Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York, and the final installment of a solo touring exhibition
entitled The Collaborationists in the spring of 2016. Produced by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, the exhibition also toured to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Art Gallery of Windsor. Some of their recent public projects include a recently installed sculpture for the new Humber River Regional Hospital, and multiple sculptures for a 1.2kilometer linear park in Vancouver. Marman and Borins regularly lecture at galleries and institutions, including recent engagements at Concordia University, the Tulane School of Architecture, and SOMA in Mexico City. Marman and Borins’ work is in the collections of organizations such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the University of Toronto, the City of Toronto, and York University.