Boris Bally
The work of Boris Bally is a disciplined body of objects which vary from eccentric, through formal; provoking thought and reflecting some of the distortions of our ordered world. His practice is an amalgam of the skills of an able industrial designer, a gifted craftsperson, a discriminating sculptor, and a clever cultural critic. His current body of work transforms recycled street signs, weapon parts, and a wide variety of found materials into objects for reflection. This current work brings to life a raw American street-aesthetic.
Bally is the recipient of the 2006 Individual Achievement Award for the Visual Arts presented by the Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island. Bally’s work has received two Rhode Island Council on the Arts Fellowships in Design and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Craft. His work is featured in numerous international exhibitions and publications. Public collections include London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Art & Design, Carnegie Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Renwick Gallery and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.
Awards
The Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island Visual Arts Individual Achievement Award 2006
Rhode Island Council on the Arts, Fellowship in Design Grant Award 2002
Soc of N American Goldsmiths, Excellence in Jewelry& Metals Award Honorable Mention 2001
Forbes Magazine, ‘Best of the Web’ Award 2000
Rhode Island Council on the Arts, Fellowship in Design Grant Award 1999
International Design Resource Awards and exhibition, Seattle Second Place Award 1997
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY Felissimo Design Award 1996
Art of the State: Pennsylvania ‘96, State Museum of Pennsylvania Second Place Award 1996
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Fellowship in Crafts Grant Award 1993
Silver: New Forms and Expressions II, Rosanne Raab/ Fortunoff Silver Second Place Award 1990
Permanent Collections & Installations
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Museum of Art & Design, New York
& Installations National Museum of American Art: Renwick, Washington
Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Racine Art Museum, Racine
Woodturning Center, Philadelphia
Goldschmiedgesellschaft, Torsten Bröhan, Hanau, Germany
Indiana Univ Art Museum, Bloomington
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburgh
Herman Miller Headquarters, Boston , MA
Cleveland University Hospitals, Rainbow Babies Hospital Wing
PA Turnpike Commission Headquarters
Architecture + Design Charter High School, Philadelphia
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
International Fine Arts College, Lobby, Miami
Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Headquarters Lobby, Pittsburgh
Convergence International Arts Festival, Providence
Respironics, Inc, Atrium, 2nd Floor, Murrysville
Levine Children’s Hospital, Charlotte
Michael Stipe, REM’s lead singer/songwriter
Exhibitions
Glasswear - Toledo Museum of Art, OH- travels to Germany, Museum of Art & Design, NYC 2007- 2009
with catalogs
Feeding Desire: Design and Tools for the Table - opens at the Cooper Hewitt , Nat’l Design Museum, NYC 2005- 2006
Trashformations East, curator Lloyd Herman, catalog, opens Fuller Craft Mus, Brockton, MA 2005- 2008
Enhancements, curated by R Logan, opened Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX 2001- 2004
Objects For Use: Handmade By Design, curator Paul J Smith, American Craft Museum, NY (book) 2001
Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, curator S. Nichols, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 2001- 2004
The Ring, Mobilia Gallery, Boston 2001- 2003
Trashformations: Recycled Materials in American Art & Design , curator Lloyd Herman, catalog 1997- 2000
Artisans in Silver: The Vase , Society American Silversmiths, National Ornamental Metal Museum 1995- 1996
International Exhibitions
Japan Jewlery Art Competition, organized by the Japan Jewellery Designers Association, Tokyo, Japan, 2008
Metalsmiths Linking: Cross Cultural Exchange, Hiko Mizuno Jewelry College , Tokyo, Japan, curator Jim Bové, 2007
Funky & Flashy, 3 person exhibition, Carlin Gallery, Paris, France 2000
Attitude & Action, curated by Gail M Brown, Atrium Gallery, Univ of Central England, Birmingham 2000
Design with Memory, Design Research Core, Sanjo-Tsubame Area Research Core, Niigata, Japan 1999
Revelations: New Jewellery by Members of SNAG, Shipley Gallery, England and traveling 1996- 1998
Recycle, Reuse, Recreate, and accompanying catalog, tours Africa, curator: Dorothy Spencer 1994- 1996
11th Silbertriennale, International Competition, Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany 1995
Challenge V: International Lathe-Turned Objects, organized by the Wood Turning Center 1994- 1997
Schmuckszehne '93, Handwerkmesse, curated by Susan Grant Lewin, München, Germany 1993
