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Voted Time Out New York’s Most Creative New Yorker in December 2009, Upper East Side artist Borbay has painted textural portraits and famed locations around the world, including The Guggenheim, TriBeCa Grand, Woolworth Building, Elaine’s, Chrysler Building, Hancock Tower (Chicago), Runaway Bay (Jamaica), Welcome to Las Vegas Sign and San Marco Cathedral (Milan).

His work is comprised of collaged New York Newspaper headlines, and layer upon layer of acrylic paint. Driven to capture the actuality of society, this series visually displays the paradox of love, lust, murder, sex, sports, betrayal, triumph, religion, rape and politics in one place… concepts any person reading a daily newspaper will see juxtaposed without a second thought.

Borbay’s recent #KingsOfHipHop exhibition opened to a capacity crowd in the Meatpacking District, and was covered in Forbes.

Beyond the canvas, Borbay branded Bomb Wines, which launched to great fanfare in Montclair, NJ.

Carlos Fresneda of El Mundo recently penned, “The undisputed kings of the season are undoubtedly Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Mr. Brainwash, backed this week by the new local hero, Jason Borbay , re-inventor (of) collage.”

His architectural impressionist collage paintings have been featured in Time Out New York , Wall Street Journal Japan, New York Post, Whitewall, The Huffington Post, The Source and more.

Process-driven, Borbay shares the creation of each piece through social media, posting frequent updates to his blog, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts. If art plus social media is the new frontier, Borbay intends to be at the forefront.

His works have been acquired for private collections around the world; as well as the permanent corporate collections of Red Bull, Pabst Blue Ribbon and BEVFORCE.

Borbay | On Location in Sweden

A Window Into the Past

Borbay’s professional career began as a graphic designer in Boston, immediately followed by a six month stint on low-budget reality TV. Having saved some green whilst acting the fool, Borbay moved to Manhattan with his friend the art dealer, and spent 2003-04 as a stand-up comedian and producer.

Stumbling home down Fifth Avenue on night, his friend Rory gestured upward saying “I know someone who need someone in this big black building.” 24 hours later, he was interviewed and hired at The Trump Organization. After nearly two years of wheeling and dealing in development, he moved on to an advertising recruiting firm.

From there, Borbay landed a job at an interactive advertising firm, where he started out as a recruiter and pr guy, and quickly worked his way up to Business Director. Today, Borbay is a professional location artist, who works and resides in the Upper East Side of Manhattan with his acupuncturist/herbalist girlfriend.

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