Education
Bolande earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1979.
Bolande earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1979.
The wide range of her work shares a conceptually based methodology. She is currently Professor in New Genres in the Department of Art at University of California, Los Los Angeles
In 2012, a thirty year retrospective of her work was organized by INOVA in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and later traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and the Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles The exhibition catalogue with texts by Dennis Balk, Jack Bankowsky, Ingrid Schaffner, Rosetta Brooks, Christina Valentine, and Nicholas Frank was published by JRP.
Bolande has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout her career. Some of these include:
Skyscraper, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;
The Pathos of Things, Carriage Trade, New York;
Private Investigations, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia;
Mixed Use Manhattan, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid;
Deep Storage, Haus der Kunst, Munich;
The Consortium, Dijon, France;
The Readymade Boomerang, Eighth Biennale of Sydney, Australia;
Status of Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
Bolande is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Tesuque Foundation, the Canadian Council on the Arts, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Bolande is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Tesuque Foundation, the Canadian Council on the Arts, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.