Ben Tong (b. 1981 Toronto, Canada) is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. His work has been exhibited at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; University of California, Santa Barbara; Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Art Basel Film program, Hong Kong; Europa NYC, New York; Island, New York. He was a fellow at the Villa Aurora Foundation, Berlin, and in residency at the Soma Summer Program, Mexico City. Tong received a BCS in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, a BFA in Photo from CalArts, and an MFA in Art from CalArts.
Ben Tong
b. 1981, Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
2012 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2008 BFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2005 BSc, Computer Science & Visual Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, BC
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2024 The Universe Tastes Like Blueberries, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC
2024 The Violet Hour, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 University of Santa Barbara Centre for Creatives Studies Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 In a Year of 13 Moons, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2017 On Rooftop, AR Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Under the Tongue, a Constellation, LTD, Los Angeles, CA
2017 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
Group Exhibitions
2024 NADA Miami, Night Gallery, Miami, FL
2024 Painting the Infinite: Power and Process, Bode Gallery, Berlin, DE
2024 The Armory Show, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2023 Sunrise, Sunset, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC
2023 Frieze London, Night Gallery, London, UK
2023 Certain Technicalities of Being, Kling and Bang, Reykjavik, IC
2023 Untold Stories, G/ART/EN Gallery, Como, IT
2023 NADA New York, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2022 Shrubs, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Moonflower, Europa NYC, New York, NY
2022 Books and Things, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Circular Ruins, Island, New York, NY
2022 Art Toronto presentation w/ Night Gallery, Toronto, BC
2022 NADA Art Fair presentation w/ Europa NYC, Miami, FL
2021 Nomad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2020 Oranges and Sardines, Foam Corp, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Garden, Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2018 Art Basel Film Program, Hong Kong
2018 Emerald City, K11 Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2018 Summer of Love, J:Gallery, Shanghai, CN
2018 The Commons Gallery (NYU), New York, NY
2018 Built In Ch. 2, Navel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Focus LA Microcinema, Art Toronto, Toronto, BC
2017 Oracle (in collaboration with Alice Wang), Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, CN
2017 Similar Sunlight, GAIT.LA, Los Angeles, CA
2017 California Curse, Mother’s Beach, Los Angeles, CA
2016 OPENING, Golden Spike Press, Los Angeles, CA
2016 From My Warm and Wet Kidneys, Practice, New York, NY
2016 La Biennale di Vista del Oro, Yard Pedro, San Pedro, CA
2015 Bad Data, Wolfart, Rotterdam, NL
2015 Hunter Time, ITP Space, Jackson, WY
2015 Petrella’s Imports, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 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
2014 The Work of the Work, University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 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, DE
2012 Unit Prints, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Awards & Residencies & Fellowships
2015 Parkfield Residency, Parkfield
2015 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Grant
2013 Fellow, Villa-Aurora Fellowship, Berlin, DE
2012 DAAD Academic Exchange Grant
2012 Dean’s Project Grant, Calarts
2012 Calarts Scholarship
2012 Pitzer Scholarship
2011 Resident, SOMA Summer Program, Mexico City, MX
2011 Calarts Scholarship