Linus Borgo

Bio: Linus Borgo (b. 1995 Stamford, Connecticut) is a New York based painter who works primarily with large scale oil paintings, focusing on self portraiture and autobiographical narrative scenes. Most of his work deals with a life altering accident that he experienced as a teenager, and explores metaphysical questions of time, gender, history and the limitations of canonical definitions of nature through personal storytelling. Borgo presented his debut solo show at Steve Turner LA in January 2022.

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Thesis Exhibition

Artist Statement: In 2014, when I was 18 years old, I was in an electrical accident where I was shocked with 11,000 volts, resulting in 11 surgeries to treat the third degree burns all over my body and the amputation of my left hand. All of the subsequent work I have made is an attempt to grapple with the new physical and metaphysical limits of the body I live in. Working through self portraiture, I study my own body as one might study a mathematical problem, searching for what was subtracted or rearranged, what is hidden, what is imagined, and what is a memory. What new boundaries has the surgeon’s incisions drawn on my body, and how does this manifest in the boredom of every day life. I draw heavily on my childhood fascination with Italian Renaissance paintings, from which I learned to draw when I was still in strollers, as well as my years of classical training in figure drawing and anatomy. I believe my work lies somewhere in the gap between quotidian and trauma.

I Sing the Body Electric (104” x 62”, Oil on canvas, 2022)


First Year Exhibition

L to R: Noli Me Tangere (Nick ties my shoe), (52” x 66”, Oil on canvas, 2021); Bed of Stars: Self-portrait with Elsina and Zip (46” x 68”, Oil on canvas, 2021)

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