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

2024 The Armory Show, Jack Barrett, New York, NY

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