Ben Howe

Ben Howe Biography

Australia, born 1977

Ben Howe is an Australian artist born in 1977. He obtained his degree in Master of Fine Art, HD, RMIT University.

His work circles issues of representation, time, structure and consciousness. Coming from a background of hyper-realist painting, his works are often derived from preliminary explorations in other media such as sculpture, photography and film.

On Dark Fine Art we have the original paintings by Ben Howe of the Bones and Surface Variations series, where the artist shows us his most dark and mysterious side. In the Bones series we discover the beauty of the skeletal system while on the Surface Variations series the artist experiments with the density, flexibility and texture of human flesh, creating visually stunning images.

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.

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