Robert Bordo is a Canadian-American painter and educator. Bordo was born in Montreal, Quebec and has lived in New York since 1972. He is an associate professor of art at The Cooper Union, where he leads the painting program. In 2003, he was a visiting critic for the M.F.A. program at Yale University and the Glasgow School of Art as well as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. In 2007 he was awarded a Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation grant.
Since the mid-1980s, Robert Bordo has shown his paintings internationally in numerous one-person exhibitions and collaborated with choreographer Mark Morris in designing the sets and costumes for Dido and Aeneas (performed in 1989 in Brussels, in 1998 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and as part of the “Mostly Mozart” Festival at Lincoln Center in 2013.) His most recent one-person exhibition was at Alexander and Bonin. He has been a fellow at MacDowell and a recipient of Canada Council Art Grants and a grant from the Tesuque Foundation.
