My inspiration comes from America’s crumbling post-industrial landscape. This fascination can be traced back to my childhood experiences with the super-industrialized environment of the east coast and Midwest of the United States. Driving through eastern Ohio to visit my grandparents, I watched factory after factory pass by the car window. These did not appear to me as simply, rigid, lifeless structures, but constructions that were brought to life by randomly flowing sculptural elements and layers of wear. Nevertheless, these were also the sites of industrial accidents and the source of pollution that left many individuals and communities harmed for lifetimes - even generations - leaving me with a profound ambivalence toward my industrialized heritage. Working with reclaimed metal, I often cast forms in concrete and then use mason stains to color their surfaces to evoke that layers of wear that have accumulated in these places and natural changes that happen to these now abandoned buildings. I am exploring the relationship between architecture, memory, and nature. My work seeks to embody the unresolved state between the built environment and landscape, organic and inorganic, past and present, history and progress, industrialization and the environment, the spiritual and secular, and the modern and the postmodern. It is my way of making peace with the post-industrial heritage that I have inherited.

boram-hays.1@osu.edu

Education

2000 Ph.D., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. History of Art
1994 M.A., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. History of Art
1985 B.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO

One Person Exhibitions

2010 Perpetual Obsolescence, Miller Gallery, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH
2006 Sculpture by Carol Boram-Hays, Little Gallery, Bowling Green State University
Firelands College, Huron, OH
2002 Industriell Menagerie, Studio 972, Columbus, OH
2001 Sie fallen um, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden, Germany

Large Scale Temporary Site-Specific Installations

2009 Art Al Fresco, Columbus, OH.
2009 Here and Beyond: The Ohio Art League 100th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Margo A. Crutchfield, senior curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2008 What Time is This Place, OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2006 Without Walls ' 06, Mac's Farm and Sculpture Center, Cincinnati, OH

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 …and sweeps me away, curated by Barbara O’Brien, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Notes from Dresden: The Dresden/Saxony Residency Program of the Greater Columbus Arts Council, Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH.
2009 Contemporary Humanism, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Faculty Biennial, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
2008 National Association of Women Artists 119th Annual Exhibition, Reading, PA
2008 Spring into Summer, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
2008 Structured Incidents, curated by Charlotta Kotik, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Some Assembly Required, Schumacher Gallery, Capital University, Columbus, OH
2007 Compass: New Directions, curated by Jill Conner, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 National Association of Women Artists 118th Annual Exhibition, Hoboken, NJ
2007 Made Out of the Ordinary, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Thumb Box Exhibition, The Ohio Art League, Columbus, OH
2006 Faculty Exhibition 2006. Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
2006 Esoteric, Kirsten Bowen Gallery, Columbus, OH
2006 National Association of Women Artists 117th Annual Exhibition, Reading, PA
2006 Being in Space, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Unseen City, Schumacher Gallery, Capital University, Columbus, OH
2005 15 Years, Gallery Kunsthaus Raskolnikow, Dresden, Germany
2005 Small Works, National Association of Women Artists 116th Annual Exhibition,
New York, NY
2005 Eclectic Palette, Kirsten Bowen Gallery, Columbus, OH
2005 3DeLuxe, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2004 Constructions, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2002 National Association of Women Artists 113th Annual Exhibition, Banana Factory,
Bethlehem, PA
1999 Ceramics Reunion Exhibit, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1997 Fragments of Memories, Dublin Arts Council Gallery, Dublin, OH
1990 Weir Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1988 Sharon Dougherty and Carol Boram, Roberta Kuhn Gallery, Columbus, OH

Selected Juried Exhibitions

2010 Tempo, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2009 After the Pedestal, the 5th Annual Exhibition of Smaller Sculpture from the Region, The Sculpture Center, Curator: Paola Morsiani, Curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
2009 Juried Spring Exhibition, Ohio Art League, OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
Juror: David Pagel, critic Los Angeles Times
2008 Juried Spring Exhibition, Ohio Art League, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
2007 H X W X D, Rosewood Arts Centre, Dayton OH
2007 Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Ohio Art League, Columbus, OH
2007 The Ohio Exhibition, Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH
2007 96th Annual Ohio Art League Spring Exhibition, Columbus, OH
2006 Small Works Shows, The National Association of Women Artists, Karpeles
Library Museum, Newburgh, NY and The Port of Call Gallery, Warwick, NY
2001 National Association of Women Artists Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
2000 Abstraction for a New Millennium, Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY
Juror: Ann Ellegood, Curator, The New Museum of Contemporary Art
2000 Expo XIX, B. J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York
Juror: Beth Venn, Associate Curator, Whitney Museum
1999 Cambridge Art Association National Show, Federal Reserve Bank Gallery Boston, MA
1998 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1996 Columbus Art League, Columbus, OH
1996 Ohio Women Artists, Youngstown, OH
1993 Ohio Women's Caucus for Art - 4th Annual Juried Exhibition, Columbus, OH
1992 Columbus Art League, Columbus, OH
1990 Columbus Art League, Columbus, OH
Juror: Philip Brookman, Director of Washington Project for the Arts
1988 German Village Arts Festival Invitational, Columbus, OH
1987 Whirlpool Sculpture Competition
Jurors: James Burke, Director of St. Louis Art Museum, Nan Rosenthal, Curator of 20th Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Lewis Sharp, Curator of American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1987 German Village Arts Festival, Columbus, OH

Awards


2008 Gretchen Richardson Memorial Award for Sculpture, National Association of Women Artists 119th Annual Exhibition, Reading, PA
2007 Award of Excellence, H X W X D, Rosewood Arts Centre, Dayton OH
2007 First Place for Sculpture, The Ohio Exhibition, Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH
2005 Amelia Peabody Memorial Award, National Association of Women Artists 116th Annual Exhibition, New York, NY
2001 Greater Columbus Arts Council, Artist Residency Program in Dresden Germany
2000 B. J. Spoke Gallery, Expo XIX
1996 Women Artists of Ohio
1987 Whirlpool Sculpture Competition, 3rd Prize

Public Collections

Kunsthaus Raskolnikow, Dresden, Germany



Curatorial Experience

2005 Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Art 1890-1960, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
1998 African Pathways: From Birth to Rebirth, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Juror Experience

2008 Ohio Art for Friends of the Library and Ohio Art League, Carnegie Gallery at Main Library, Columbus, OH

Lectures and Panels

2007 Panel discussion in conjunction with Compass: New Directions, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY moderated by Carey Lovelace from Art in America
2003, 2009 Coffee and Conversation Artist Lecture Series, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
1998, 2000 Ohio State University, Lecture on "Presenting African Art to Primary, Middle and High School Students", Columbus, OH
1988 Ohio State University IAAE Program, Columbus, OH

Memberships

A.I.R. Gallery, National Member
International Sculpture Center
National Association of Women Artists
Ohio Art League

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