Kellie Bornhoft (she/her) seeks tangible and poetic narratives needed in an ever-warming climate. Bornhoft utilizes sculpture, installation, and video to delve into the whelms and quotidian experiences of our precarious times. Scientific data and news headlines do plenty to evince the state of our warming planet, but the abject realities of such facts are hard to possess. Through geological and more-than-human lenses, Bornhoft sifts through shallow dichotomies (such as natural/unnatural, here/there, or animate/inanimate.) Bornhoft lives in Ogden, Utah where she is an Assistant Professor/Coordinator of Foundations at Weber State University. She holds a MFA in Sculpture + Expanded Media from Ohio State University and a BFA from Watkins College of Art and Design. Bornhoft’s work has exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and film festivals such as the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina, Kulturanker in Magdeburg, Germany, and the Athens International Film and Video Festival. Bornhoft’s work has been reviewed in many publications including Frieze Magazine, Burnaway, and Southwest Contemporary. Bornhoft is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City. She is also a recipient of the Wake the Great Salt Lake Grant awarded to Salt Lake City through Bloomburg Philanthropies.
