BEN TONG
Born in 1981, Toronto, Canada. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
EDUCATION
2012
MFA, Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2008
BFA, Photography, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2005
BSc, Computer Science & Visual Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Universe Tastes Like Blueberries, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada
The Violet Hour, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
To See Is To Forget The Name Of The Thing You See, UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies, Santa Barbara, CA
In a Year of 13 Moons, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2017
Under the Tongue, a Constellation, LTD, Los Angeles, CA
On Rooftop, AR Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Cows at Night, The Slimy Sandbox, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Lost Wages, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
In one thousand years we will have caused the earth’s axis to shift, 45 degrees, and the polar icecaps will have melted into the seas, giving them a flavoring of lemonade …, Villa Aurora Foundation, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Night Gallery at Frieze London, London, United Kingdom
Sunrise, Sunset, Bradley Ertaskran, Montreal, Canada
Certain Technicalities of Being, Kling and Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland
Untold Stories, G/ART/EN, Como, Italy
Jack Barrett at NADA New York, NADA New York, New York, NY
Night Gallery at Dallas Art Fair, Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
2022
Circular Ruins, island, New York, NY
Books and Things, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Moonflower, Europa, New York, NY
Shrubs, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Nomad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2020
Oranges and Sardines, Foam Corp, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Garden, Vacancy, Shanghai, China
2018
Art Basel Film Program, Hong Kong
Emerald City, K11, Hong Kong
Summer of Love, J:Gallery, Shanghai, China
The Commons Gallery, Margaretville, New York
Built In Ch. 2, Navel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Focus LA Microcinema, Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Oracle (in collaboration with Alice Wang), Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Similar Sunlight, GAIT.LA, Los Angeles, CA
California Curse, Mother’s Beach, Los Angeles, CA
2016
OPENING, Golden Spike Press, Los Angeles, CA
From My Warm and Wet Kidneys, Practice, New York, NY
La Biennale di Vista del Oro, Yard Pedro, San Pedro, CA
2015
Bad Data, Wolfart, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015
Hunter Time, ITP Space, Jackson, WY
2014
Petrella’s Imports, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In one thousand years we will have caused the earth’s axis to shift, 45 degrees, and the polar icecaps will have melted into the seas, giving them a flavoring of lemonade …,LAABF, MOCA Geffen, Los Angeles, CA
The Work of the Work, University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
As We Had All Been Flesh Together, Now we Were Mist, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Entre Chien et Loup, Concord Space, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Artist as Traveller, Hochscule fur Bildenkunste (HBK) Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Unit Prints, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
MMXII, LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA
The Parrot Lecture, MFA Thesis Exhibition, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2011
The Experimental Impulse, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
On Dialogue, Centre for Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths, London, United Kingdom
Adorno Dance Party, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
Having Just Broken the Water Pitcher, Main Gallery, Valencia, CA
2010
Included in The Present Classification Images Festival 23, Toronto, Canada
Metropolitan Museum Doubles, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
TD Bank
The National Bank
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2023
Canadian Arts Council Project Grant
2015
Parkfield Residency, Parkfield, CA
Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Grant, Ontario, Canada
2013
Fellow, Villa-Aurora Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
2012
DAAD Academic Exchange Grant
Dean’s Project Grant, Calarts, Los Angeles, CA
Calarts Scholarship, Los Angeles, CA
Pitzer Scholarship, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Resident, SOMA Summer Program, Mexico City, Mexico
CalArts Scholarship, Los Angeles, CA
SELECT PUBLISHED WRITING & ARTIST BOOKS
2019
The Magic Hour Annual
2016
Nonsensical Journal, “IEEE, The Crystal Spa” January
Parkfield Review #5, February
2014
Petrella’s Imports
2013
IDCA 1971, Aspen Times, Intro., RosaB.net, March
Interview with Sheila de Bretteville, RosaB.net, March
2012
FrameWork 9/12, Susan Hobbs Gallery, September
The Parrot Lecture, Golden Spike Press, Los Angeles, CA
Love Songs for Antarctica, VSC Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Having just broken the Water Pitcher, Art/e/Fact Journal, University of London, London, United Kingdom
The Calarts Design School Interviews, EastOfBorneo.org, November 20
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
The New York Times, May
Galerie, January
2023
Santa Barbara Independent, March
Revue Eclipse, February
Cultbytes, February
Museum of Non-visible Art, February
2019
The Artling, July
2017
Canadian Art, Art Toronto Report, canadianart.ca news, October
Art and Cake, LA focus at Art Toronto, October
Ocula, October
2016
Esse, October
www.otherplaces.la
2015
The Parkfield Review #5
2012
Molly Sullivan, “The Notions of Line(s),” MMXII Exhibition Catalogue, July