Biography
BEN SLOAT
www.bensloat.com
Born 1977 New York, NY Lives and works New York, NY and Cambridge, MA
EDUCATION
2005 M.F.A. Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2002 Post-Baccalaureate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1999 B.A. w/honors, U.C. Berkeley
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2009 Fulbright Scholar’s Grant, seven month research photo project in Taiwan
2008 Ford Foundation Grant
2008 Faculty Development Grant, Art Institute of Boston
2006 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, SMFA
2004 Travel Grant, SMFA
2002 Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, SMFA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 'His eyes were like mine' Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montréal May 11-June 11
Upcoming: “Academy of Light” NLH, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 This Midas Earth2010 Cycle 2010 Package from China
2009 Yellow in August 2009 In Depraved May
2008 I’m Not Like Other Guys
Death is just a rumor/Spread by life
2007 Half Asian
2005 Independence
2004 Portraits
2002 Half-Asian
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2011 NEXT Chicago, Galerie Laroche/Joncas
2010 American Footsteps Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston
MMX, Berlin 126 Gallery
Galway, Ireland
ACC Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Front Gallery, Oakland,
CA OH&T Gallery, Boston, MA
Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
Front Gallery, Oakland, CA
Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
CCAE, Cambridge, MA Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Koahsiung History Museum,Taiwan
2008
A Rake’s Progress (opera set installation)BRIC studio, Brooklyn, NY
In Between: (2 person show) OH&T Gallery Simmons College, Boston, MA Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL
2007
Word of Mouth Safe-T Gallery OH&T Gallery Situation of Seeing Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL Art Now Art Fair, Miami, Fl Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL Gallery 1600, Atlanta, GA
2006
An Orchid In The Land of Technology Fetish Gesture
OH+T Gallery, Boston, MA G.A.S.P. Brookline, MA
Postcards From The Edge Sikkema, Jenkins & Co. NY, NY
2005
The Once Over Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston curated by David Hilliard
I Am Your Secret Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston
Fresh Fiction Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Genealogies Harvard University, Cambridge
2004
New Work, New Faces Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
6th Annual Juried Photo Show Providence Arts Club, Providence, RI
Digital Art Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, LA, CA
Juried Exhibition Contemporary Artist Center, MA (juror: Jenny Holzer)
2003
Decked Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Photo I.D. Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
Blackburn Memorial Cooper Union, NY, NY
2002
Funny You Don’t Look It Gallery@Green Street, Boston
Asianlens Chambers Fine Arts, NY, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
“Head Games” Greg Cook, Boston Phoenix, June 2010 2010 “Communist Consumerism” Kernan Andrews, Galway Advertiser, Mar 2010
2009 “Through The Lens”Noah Buchan, Taipei Times, July 2009 2008 “A Pop Icon’s Many Layered Image” Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, Sept
2008
“Now You See It…” Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, April 2008
“Photography, Chess, and Death”, BigRed&Shiny, March 2008
2007
"The Whole Picture" Brenda Payton, Oakland Tribune, March 2008 "Mixed Doubles” Rachel Swan, East Bay Express, February 2007 "Half Asian" Hokubei News, February 2007
2006 "Going To Extremeties" Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, April 2006 2005 "Five Degrees of Inspiration" Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe May 2005
2004 “Photography” ArtMatters, spring issue 2004
“Photo Show at the Art Club”, Providence Journal, April 2004
“The Edge” Tenley Woodman, Boston Herald, January 2004
2003
“Photo I.D.” Dominick Lombardi, New York Times, March 2003 “Kyogen” Andover Townsman January 2003 “Half-Asian” David Hsieh, World Journal, December 2002
2002
“Up and Coming”, Brooklyn Journal of Art , November 2002 “Half-Asian” Liberty Times New York, November 2002
“Asianlens” Adrian Leung, AsiaWeek Magazine, August 2002
“Photos Play Out Against Racial Backdrops” Boston Herald, July 2002
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