E D U C A T I O N |
| 2011 |
Master of Fine Art, HD, RMIT University |
| 2001 |
Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education, Monash University |
| 1998 |
Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), RMIT University |
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S |
| 2022 |
Echos in the Abyss, Compendium Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2022 |
Ashen Rainbow, Compendium Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2022 |
The More Things Change, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2019 |
Leviathan, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 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, Australia |
| 2016 |
Themes of Dislocation and Habitation, St. Francis, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2016 |
Selection, Mycelium, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2015 |
Monochroamatic Anomalies,Lorimer Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2014 |
Within the Grey, Shangyuan Museum of Modern Art, Beijing |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2007 |
Urban Fractures, SKAMraum, Hamburg |
| 2006 |
Surface Variations, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2004 |
Forms and shadows, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2003 |
Selected works, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne |
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S |
2024 |
Lester Prize, Western Australian Museum, WA |
2024 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Whales |
2024 |
Together, Always and Never, White Night, Ballarat, Victoria |
2024 |
Antipodes 2024, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne |
2023 |
Eureka Art Award, Fairbanks Eye Gallery, Ballarat, Australia |
2023 |
Dark Art 2023, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2023 |
Antipodes, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2022 |
Interconnected, New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM), NSW, Australia |
2022 |
Rites of Passage Tattoo Festival, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
2022 |
Hypercontemporary Act II, Hasbrook Galleries, online |
2022 |
Throwback, Six Years of Beinart Gallery Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2021 |
Dark Art, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2021 |
Lucid Dreaming, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, USA |
2021 |
Lucid, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2021 |
Antipodes, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2020 |
Dark Art, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2020 |
Antipodes, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2019 |
Dark Art, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2019 |
Doug Moran National Prortrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney, Australia |
2019 |
Lester Prize, Art Gallery of WA, Perth Cultural Centre, Australia |
2018 |
Australian Art, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2018 |
Ephemeral, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
2018 |
Focal Point: New Realist Painting, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, Australia |
2018 |
Dark Art Show, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
2017 |
NotFair, Melbourne, Australia |
2017 |
The 13th Hour, Last Rites Gallery, New York, USA |
2017 |
And if our days wont last, Distinction Gallery, Escondido, CA, USA |
2017 |
Art Collector Starter Kit, Cory Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
2016 |
Metro Summer Show 2016, Metro Gallery, Melbourne |
2016 |
Beinart Small Works 2016, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne |
2016 |
Transmogrify, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne |
2016 |
Black Swan Prize, Art Gallery of WA, Perth, Australia |
2016 |
Metropolis, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne |
2016 |
Beinart Inaugural Exhibition, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne |
2015 |
Whyalla art prize exhibition, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide |
2014 |
Strange Attractor, D11, Melbourne |
| 2014 |
Shangyuan Resident Artists 2014, Shangyuan Modern art Museum, Beijing |
| 2014 |
Ben Howe and HaHa, Second Story Studios, Melbourne |
| 2013 |
Urban, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2013 |
Your Old Self, Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2012 |
Exploration 12, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2012 |
Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 2012 |
Matter and Space, Ne Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| 2012 |
Possibilities, Metro Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2012 |
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 |
| 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 |
| 2007 |
Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 2003 |
Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1997 |
Contingency, RMIT Graduate Show, Span Galleries, Melbourne |
A W A R D S A N D H O N O U R S |
| 2024 |
The Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture, Winner |
| 2024 |
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Whales, Finalist |
| 2024 |
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Finalist |
| 2024 |
ARC Salon, Semi Finalist |
| 2023 |
Eureka Art Award 2023, Winner |
| 2022 |
Bluetumb Art Prize 2022, Finalist |
| 2021 |
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2021, Honourable Mention |
| 2021 |
Bluetumb Art Prize 2021, finalist |
| 2021 |
Lester Prize 2021, Finalist |
| 2020 |
Bluetumb Art Prize 2020, Finalist |
| 2020 |
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Finalist |
| 2020 |
Mission to Seafarers Maritime Art Prize, Finalist |
| 2019 |
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Finalist |
| 2019 |
Lester Prize 2019, Finalist |
| 2018 |
Bluethumb, Finalist |
| 2017 |
Hill Smith Award, NotFair |
| 2016 |
Black Swan, Finalist |
| 2015 |
Whyalla Art Prize, Finalist |
| 2014 |
Ian Potter Cultural Trust |
| 2014 |
Doug Moran, Semi Finalist |
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 |
C U R A T O R I A L |
| 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 |
R E S I D E N C I E S, T E A C H I N G, R E L A T E D A C T I V I T I E S |
| 2023 |
Teacher, The Art Room, Melbourne, Australia |
2019 - 2021 |
Teacher, Footscray Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2013 - 2024 |
Teacher, Melbourne Studio of Art, Melbourne, Australia |
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 |
| 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 |
I N T E R V I E W S A N D P U B L I C A T I O N S |
2024 |
Parsons, Jacinta. Weekend Mornings, ABC Radio Victoria 774, Sept 21 ( from 33.40 mins ) |
2024 |
Gilchrist-Stewart, James. The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies: Law, Politics, Culture. Edinburgh University Press, Oct |
2024 |
Radio Ballarat, Brett Macdonald, 3BA & Power FM News, Sept 30 |
2024 |
Bottams, Tim. Portrait Prize Finalist Frames Strength, Ballarat Times, July 5 |
2024 |
Allen, Christopher, Archibald Prize 2024, See the Finalists, The Australian, May 31 |
2024 |
Holden, Kate, Walls white, paintings bright: 2024’s Archibald Prize, The Saturday Paper, June 12 |
2023 |
Walton, Nieve. Unbelievable Ballarat painting wins top art prize, TheCourier, Nov 21 |
2022 |
Lima, Leandro, Weave: unveiling the eerie beauty of monochromatic figures in Ben Howe’s surreal paintings. visualflood.com, Sept 24 |
2022 |
T365 Art + Case 31. Zombie Fashion Show, pp 64-65, Oct |
2021 |
The Evocative Masterpieces of Ben Howe, Hyperrealism Magazine, issue 15, June 2021, pp 02–11 |
2021 |
Morrow, Justine. Conceptual & Hyperreal Oils: An Interview with Ben Howe. Beautifulbizare.net, March 18 |
2021 |
Wye, Grace.Packing Room Prize Winner Kathrin Longhurst Shares Her Artist Picks, https://bluethumb.com.au. 02, Nov |
2021 |
365 Art + Case 14. Earth/Spring, P 91, Feb |
2020 |
Decena, Guenivere.What it is to be Human; an interview with Ben Howe, Art Satelite, May 2020 |
| 2020 |
Diabolico II: Exploring the Realm of Dark Art, Out of step books, March |
2020 |
Melville, Hermen. Moby Dick, or The Whale, Waterbell books, March |
2020 |
Barden, Elizabeth. Interview with Ben Howe, Artists Can, April |
2020 |
Black & White: Volume Five, Out of step books, volume 5, Feb |
2019 |
Howe, Benjamin, Behind the Painting: How and why I make art. Aug 23 |
2019 |
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney Arts Guide |
| 2019 |
Joruk, Natalia. Primal Impulses & Curious Beauty: is 2019 the Year of the Dark Art Movement? Beautifulbizare.net, March 28 |
2018 |
Howe, Benjamin. Instances of Anomaly, Double Dialogues, Issue 20, September (incl Cover) |
| 2018 |
Abdulrahim, Nadiah. Ben Howe – New paintings, Art Guide Australia, Issue 115, September / October. p 52 |
| 2018 |
Miekus, Tiarney. Focal point: New Realist Painting, Art Guide Australia, 8 May |
| 2018 |
Beinart, Jon. The brilliant, yet often misunderstood paintings of Ben Howe. Steemit.com, 30 April |
| 2018 |
Morrow, Justine. Waxing and Weaving Realities, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Issue 20, March, pp 52-57 |
| 2018 |
Digital Exclusive – An Interview with Ben Howe. Beautifulbizarre.net, Jan 30 |
| 2017 |
Barret, Luke. In conversation with Ben Howe, Beinart.org, September |
2017 |
Henschke, Adam. Ethics in an Age of Surveilance, Cambridge University Press, July |
2017 |
Smith, Andy. Ben Howe’s Arresting New Oil Paintings, Hi-Fructose Magazine, September |
2017 |
Singhi, Manav. Paintings by Ben Howe, Australia, Artospective.com, March |
2017 |
Evans, Hayley. Hyperrealistic Paintings of Fragmented Faces by Ben Howe, Illusion Scene 360 Magazine, March |
2016 |
Holsworth, Mark. The walls of Irene Warehouse, Black Mark, melbourneartcritic.com, October |
2016 |
Pügh,A.J. Ben Howe: Piece By Piece, Daub Daily, May |
2016 |
Buermann, Margot. Ben Howe’s Surface Variations’ Feature Eerie, Distorted Faces, Hi-Fructose Magazine, July |
2016 |
Tutor, Zach. Ben Howe’s Daily Motion. supersonicart.com, March |
2015 |
Hawkins, Celeste. The Art and the Curious, Art Diary 1, Dec |
2015 |
The Beinart Collective: A Shared Facination of the Surreal, Heavy Metal Magazine, issue 278, Dec. p 64 |
2015 |
The Arts show, J Air Radio, Alex McCulloch and Demian Gibbins,25 Nov |
2015 |
The Arts show, Highlands FM, Ben Howe and Demian Gibbins, Alex McCulloch. Interview 07 July |
| 2015 |
Brotchie, Eric. Ben Howe - Constructed Space, Undercoat, 5 March |
| 2014 |
Ben Howe, Within the Grey.>China Broadway, P159, 1 July |
| 2014 |
Brotchie, Eric. Ben Howe: Strange Attractor/Paper Dolls, Undercoat, 15 April |
| 2013 |
Gladwin, Darcy. Ben Howe, Artist Profile https://vimeo.com/66212049, 14 May |
2013 |
Windmiller, Susan. Fitting Together Pieces of Humanity, Stonnington Leader, 23 April |
| 2013 |
Fehlly,Toby. Ben Howe, The Sum of its Parts, Three Thousand, 22 April |
| 2012 |
Gleeson, Michael. Thornbury painter's hyper-real creations receive recognition, Nortcote Leader, 24 July |
| 2012 |
McCulloch, Ann. Can art change minds where science can’t Theconversation.edu.au, 11 Feb |
| 2012 |
Kerr, Justine. Artists paint a different picture of climate change. The 730 Report, 26 Jan |
| 2012 |
Woodruff, Alan. McCulloch, Ann. Aesthetic Perceptions of Climate Change. |
| 2012 |
Howe, Benjamin. City and Populace: An Exploration in Paint. 3 March |
2011 |
Kellett, Luke. This city speaks to me: a portrait of Melbourne's underground. Published by Headjam, 2011 |
2011 |
Holsworth, Mark. Metro Art Award 2011 July |
| 2009 |
O’Connell, Brigid. Pigeon Artists Fire Up Coop, Moreland leader, 25 March |
| 2009 |
Ruiz, Paul. Interview with Ben Howe, Art Catalyst,10 March |
| 2009 |
Gladwin,Darcy. Creative Brunswick Documentary |
| 2008 |
Graffiti artist Defends his Work,Mornington Leader, Dec |
| 2008 |
Mcguiness, Peter. Interview with Ben Howe, 5/502. Pedro TV, 11 August |
| 2007 |
Feuilleton für die Ohren, Interview. SBS Radio, 11 Dec |
| 2004 |
Berry, Michael. Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia. Published by Krispin Pty Ltd. p 75 - 76 |
