Dan Borelli|2023 bio

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Dan Borelli is an Artist and Director of Exhibitions at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (GSD). His art practice focuses on environmental justice, contaminated communities, and how research-based art can address shared traumas.

 

His current project, ‘Unfriending the Atom’ started in 2021, is an ongoing collaboration with the scientist Marco Kaltofen. This project makes public the material samples from Marco’s field science and places them in a graphic communication system that accurately conveys the exotic radioactive data that he finds from the mundane objects associated with the various productions of nuclear materials, either in energy or weaponry.

 

His long-range and socially-engaged artwork “Illuminating Futures: Ashland and Nyanza” makes public hidden narratives of cancer clusters, human loss, activism, and ultimately regeneration surrounding one of the first Superfund sites in the United States, and received funding through The Arts Company from ArtPlace America and the National Endowment of the Arts as well as from Harvard’s Initiative in Learning Technology; he also has an ongoing collaboration with the Laborers Union New England Training Academy.

 

Additionally, he has given guest lectures, public talks and keynotes at a variety of venues such as RISD, MassArt, Arizona State University, the US Water Alliance, the National Park Service, Drexel University and Senator Patrick Leahy’s Center for the Environment.