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, Canada
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023 University of Santa Barbara Centre for Creatives Studies Gallery, Santa Barbara
2023 In a Year of 13 Moons, Jack Barrett, New York
2017 On Rooftop, AR Projects, Los Angeles
2017 Under the Tongue, a Constellation, LTD, Los Angeles
2017 On Rooftop, AR Projects, Los Angeles
2015 The Cows at Night, The Slimy Sandbox, Los Angeles
2014 Lost Wages, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions
2023 NADA New York, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2022 Shrubs, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2022 Moonflower, Europa NYC, New York
2022 Books and Things, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles
2022 Circular Ruins, Island, New York
2022 Art Toronto presentation w/ Night Gallery, Toronto
2022 NADA Art Fair presentation w/ Europa NYC, Miami
2021 Nomad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
2020 Oranges and Sardines, Foam Corp, Los Angeles
2019 Garden, Vacancy, Shanghai
2018 Art Basel Film Program, Hong Kong
2018 Emerald City, K11 Hong Kong
2018 Summer of Love, J:Gallery, Shanghai
2018 The Commons Gallery (NYU), New York
2018 Built In Ch. 2, Navel Gallery, Los Angeles
2017 Focus LA Microcinema, Art Toronto, Toronto
2017 Oracle (in collaboration with Alice Wang), Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai
2017 Similar Sunlight, GAIT.LA, Los Angeles
2017 California Curse, Mother’s Beach, Los Angeles
2016 OPENING, Golden Spike Press, Los Angeles
2016 From My Warm and Wet Kidneys, Practice, New York
2016 La Biennale di Vista del Oro, Yard Pedro, San Pedro
2015 Bad Data, Wolfart, Rotterdam
2015 Hunter Time, ITP Space, Jackson
2015 Petrella’s Imports, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
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
2014 The Work of the Work, University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
2014 As We Had All Been Flesh Together, Now we Were Mist, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2013 Entre Chien et Loup, Concord Space, Los Angeles
2012 Artist as Traveller, Hochscule fur Bildenkunste (HBK) Braunschweig, Braunschweig
2012 Unit Prints, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston
Awards & Residencies & Fellowships
2015 Parkfield Residency, Parkfield
2015 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Grant
2013 Fellow, Villa-Aurora Fellowship, Berlin
2012 DAAD Academic Exchange Grant
2012 Dean’s Project Grant, Calarts
2012 Calarts Scholarship
2012 Pitzer Scholarship
2011 Resident, SOMA Summer Program, Mexico City
2011 Calarts Scholarship