LEON A. BORENSZTEIN
EDUCATION
M.F.A. 1980 Photography, Honors, San
Francisco Art Institute
B.A.
1974 Art and Geography, University of Haifa, Israel
AWARDS
2003
California Council for the Humanities
1995
1st Tokyo International Photo-Biennale
1995
American Photography in photojournalism
1987
J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2005 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San
Francisco, California
1995 Center for Creative Growth, Oakland,
California
1989 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
(2 person show)
1988 Centre Nationale de la Photographie,
Paris, France
1987 The Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, Ohio
1987 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1987 Bay Vista Gallery, Miami, Florida
1986 The Friends of Photography, Carmel,
California
1986 Museum of Art, University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon
1986 School of Art and Architecture,
University of Illinois
1985 San Francisco Camerawork, San
Francisco
1984 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1984 Photographers' Gallery, London
1977 University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
1976 Beth Katz Gallery, Haifa, Israel
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Musee de la Mode de Marseille,
Marseille, France
2003 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2002 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2002 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel,
California
2001 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2000 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Faculty Exhibition, San Francisco Art
Institute, San Francisco
1998 Faculty Exhibition, San Francisco Art
Institute, San Francisco
1998 di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California
1997 Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles,
California
1996 G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica,
California
1996 Osaka Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan
1996 Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Fernbank Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
1996 Portland State University, Portland,
Oregon
1996 S.F. Art Institute 50 Years of
Photography, San Francisco
1995 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Fotos Gallery, San Francisco,
California
1994 Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland,
Oregon
1992 Portraits of 20 Century, Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco
1992 San Francisco Camerawork, San
Francisco
1992 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1991 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Texas
1991 Napa Valley Museum, Napa California
1990 Athletes, traveling exhibition
sponsored by The Smithsonian
1990 Institute and International Center
for Photography
1990 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1990 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
1990 San Francisco Camerawork, San
Francisco
1989 New York State Museum, Albany, New
York
1989 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1989 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington,
Delaware
1989 San Francisco Camerawork, San
Francisco
1988 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1988 Presentation House Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
1988 San Francisco Camerawork, San
Francisco
1988 Photographic Resource Center, Boston,
Ma.
1988 The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois
1987 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1987 Tartt Gallery, Washington, DC.
1987 Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica,
California
1986 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1986 Aperture Foundation, "Mothers
and Daughters" (traveling)
1986 Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon (A
Commitment to Vision)
1986 San Francisco Camerawork, San
Francisco
1986 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1985 University of California, San
Francisco, Faculty Show
1985 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1984 San Francisco Camerawork, San
Francisco
1983 Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1983 San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco
1974 America-Israel Cultural Foundation,
Tel Aviv, Israel
1973 America-Israel Cultural Foundation,
Tel Aviv, Israel
1973 University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
1972 America-Israel Cultural Foundation,
Tel Aviv, Israel
1972 University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
1971 Israeli Institute of Technology,
Haifa, Israel
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
B.P. America
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson,
Arizona
Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris
di Rosa Preserve
First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
California
Museum of Art, University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego,
California
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
Tokyo, Japan
TEACHING POSITIONS
2004 San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco
2004 California College of Arts and
Crafts, Oakland
2002 San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco
2000 San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco
1998 San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco
1994 San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco
1991 The Friends of Photography, Annual
Member Workshop
1986 University of California, Berkeley
1979 San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco
1975-7 Art Department, University of Haifa