Ben Howe

Ben Howe exhibitions, studies, awards...

Education:

• 2011 - Master of Fine Art, HD, RMIT University
• 2001 - Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education, Monash University
• 1998 - Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), RMIT University

Solo exhibitions:

• 2018 A Strange Architecture, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
• 2018 Gallimaufry, Melbourne Studio of Art, Melbourne, Australia
• 2017 Weave, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2017 Selection, Mycelium, Melbourne
• 2016 Themes of Dislocation and Habitation, St Francis, Melbourne
• 2015 Monochroamatic Anomalies, Lorimer Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2014 Within the Grey, Shangyuan Museum of Modern Art, Beijing, China
• 2013 The Sum of its Parts, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
• 2012 Signs, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
• 2011 Exploring Transience: locating meaning within the urban crowd. First Site Gallery, Melbourne
• 2010 Schism Overwrite, As Soon As Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
• 2009 Graffscapes, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
• 2008 Urban Fractures 2, 5-502, Sydney
• 2007 Once Upon a Space, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
• 2007 Raumatisiert, Wir sind Woanders, Europien art festival, Hamburg, Germany
• 2007 Urban Fractures, SKAMraum, Hamburg, Germany
• 2006 Surface Variations, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
• 2004 Forms and shadows, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
• 2003 Selected works, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions:

• 2018 Ephemeral, Modern Eden Gallery, San Fransisco, USA
• 2018 Australian Art, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne
• 2018 Focal Point: New Realist Painting. Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
• 2018 Dark Art Show, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne
• 2017 NotFair 2017, Melbourne
• 2017 The 13th Hour, Last Rites Gallery, New York, USA
• 2017 If Our days wont Last, Distinction Gallery, Escondido, CA, USA
• 2017 Art collecter starter kit, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• 2016 Metro Summer Show 2016, Melbourne
• 2016 Beinart Small Works 2016, Melbourne
• 2016 Metropolis, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
• 2016 Transmogrify, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne
• 2016 Beinart Inaugural Exhibition, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne
• 2014 Shangyuan Resident Artists 2014, Beijing, China
• 2014 Ben Howe and HaHa – Second Story Studio, Melbourne
• 2014 Strange Attractor, D11 Docklands
• 2013 Supporters Exhibition, D11 Docklands
• 2013 Urban, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
• 2013 Your Old Self, Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne
• 2012 Exploration 12. Flinders Land Gallery, Melbourne
• 2012 Melbourne Art fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
• 2012 Matter and Space. Ne Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
• 2012 Possibilities, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
• 2012 Dark Horse. The Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
• 2012 It’s Not You, It’s Me, Eckersley's Open Space Gallery, Melbourne
• 2012 Climate Change. Metro Gallery, Melbourne
• 2011 RMIT Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition. Gossard Project Space, Melbourne
• 2011 The Brunswick Show, Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne
• 2011 Space and the city, Eckersley's Open Space Gallery. Melbourne
• 2011 Surface: Texture, Materiality and Conceptual Plasticity, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
• 2010 SoBright, Prague, Melbourne
• 2010 New, Used and Abused, Loft Gallery, Melbourne
• 2010 The Brunswick Show, Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne
• 2010 Irenes Street art festival, Irene, Melbourne
• 2010 Out of Nowhere, 696 INK, Melbourne
• 2010 Grand Opening Show, 696 INK, Melbourne
• 2010 Urban Art 10A, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
• 2009 Gaengeviertel, Hamburg, Germany
• 2009 Melbourne stencil festival, Collingwood, Melbourne
• 2009 Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
• 2009 Painting 09A, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
• 2007 Stencil and Freeform Combinations, A.S.A, Hamburg, Germany
• 2007 Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
• 2003 Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
• 1997 Contingency, RMIT Graduate Show, Span Galleries, Melbourne

Curatorial:

• 2009 - Pigeon hole 4, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
• 2009 - Pigeon hole 3, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
• 2009 - Conduit, Brunswick street gallery, Melbourne
• 2009 - Pigeon hole 2, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
• 2008 - Pigeon hole 1, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne

Awards:

• 2018 Bluethumb, Finalist
• 2017 Hill Smith Award, NotFair
• 2016 Black Swan, Finalist
• 2015 Whyalla Art Prize, Finalist
• 2014 Doug Moran Semi Finalist
• 2014 Ian Potter Cultural Trust
• 2014 Cliftons Art prize, Finalist
• 2012 Metro Award, Finalist
• 2012 Doug Moran, Shortlisted
• 2012 RMIT Vice chancellors List Award for academic excellence
• 2011 Dark Horse MFA Award
• 2011 Metro Award, Finalist
• 2009 Window Frames, Winner
• 2009 Melbourne stencil festival, emerging artist Award
• 2008 I Art Sydney Road, 1st prize
• 2008 Small works 08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Highly commended

Residencies, teaching, related activities:

• 2016 Double Dialogues: Why do things Break Symposium: ‘Instances of Anomaly’, University of Adelaide.
• 2015 - Residency, Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, USA
• 2014 - Residency, Shangyuan Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China
• 2013-2014 - Teacher, Melbourne Studio of Art, Elsternwick
• 2009 - Organised Creative Warehouse Network, North eastern Suburbs
• 2008 - Established 'Pigeon Hole Studios', Brunswick
• 2007 - Residency, SKAM, Hamburg, Germany
• 2005 - Research and Teaching: India, Egypt and Europe
• 2002 - 2009 - Teacher, secondary school and adult education. Australia / UK / Germany

Interviews and publications:

• 2018 Beautiful Bizare, Waxing and Weaving Realities, Justine Morrow, Issue 20, March, p 52 - 57
• 2017 Beinart.org, In conversation with Ben Howe, Luke Barrett, September
• 2017 HiFructose, Ben Howe’s Arresting New Oil Paintings, Andy Smith, September
• 2017 Ethics in an Age of Surveilance, Adam Henschke, Cambridge University Press, July
• 2017 Illusion Scene 360 Magazine, Hyperrealistic Paintings of Fragmented Faces by Ben Howe, Hayley Evans, March
• 2017 Artospcective.com, Paintings by Ben Howe, Australia, Manav Singhi, March
• 2016 Daub Daily, Ben Howe: Piece By Piece, AJ Pügh, May
• 2016 HiFructose, Ben Howe’s Surface Variations’ Feature Eerie, Distorted Faces, Margot Buermann, July
• 2015 The Art and the Curious, Art Diary 1, Celeste Hawkins, Dec
• 2015 Heavy Metal Magazine, TheBeinart Collective: A Shared Facination of the Surreal, issue #278, Dec
• 2015 The Arts show, J-Air Radio, Alex McCulloch and Demian Gibbons, 25 Nov
• 2015 The Arts show, Highlands FM 100.7 FM, Ben Howe and Demian Gibbons, Alex McCulloch. Interview 07 July
• 2014 China Broadway, Ben Howe, 1 July, pp 129
• 2014 Undercoat, Ben Howe, Constructed Space, Eric Brotchie, 5 March
• 2013 Stonnington Leader, Fitting Together Pieces of Humanity, Susan Windmiller, 23 April
• 2013 Three Thousand, Ben Howe, The Sum of its Parts, Toby Fehlly, 22 April
• 2012 Nortcote Leader, Thornbury painter's hyper-real creations receive recognition, Michael Gleeson, 24 July
• 2012 theconversation.edu.au, Can art change minds where science can’t? ProfessorAnn McCulloch, 11 Feb
• 2012 The 730 report, Artists paint a different picture of climate change, Justine Kerr 26 Jan
• 2012 Aesthetic Perceptions of Climate Change. Alan Woodruff, ProfessorAnn McCulloch
• 2012 City and Populace: an exploration in Paint. Ben Howe, 3 March
• 2009 Moreland leader, Pigeon Artists Fire Up Coop, Brigid O’Connell, 25 March
• 2009 Art Catalyst, Interview with Paul Ruiz, 10 March
• 2009 Creative Brunswick Documentary, Interview with Darcy Gladwin,
• 2008 Mornington Leader, Graffiti artist Defends his Work, Dec
• 2008 Pedro TV, Interview with Peter Mcguiness, 11 August
• 2007 SBS Radio, Feuilleton für die Ohren, Interview. 11 Dec
• 2004 Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia. Michael Berry. Published by Krispin Pty Ltd.