Benjamin King holds an MFA from the University of Chicago and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. King's work has been exhibited locally and internationally in galleries including Freight+Volume, Laroche/Joncas, White Columns, Longhouse Projects, ACME Los Angeles, Ridgeway Exhibitions, and the Painting Center. King is a fellow of the Edward F. Albee Foundation and a repeat recipient of the DNA artist in residence award sponsored by Freight+Volume gallery. Between 2009 and 2015, with artist Jay Henderson, King curated a series of exhibitions in NYC and abroad. Their group was included in an Exit Art and MIT press publication called Alternative HIstories in 2010, a compendium documenting New York alternative art since the 1960s.
Selected Exhibitions * solo and two person exhibitions
2023
Readymade Gallery, Orleans, MA Search and Rescue
Readymade Gallery, Orleans, MA A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2021
*Freight & Volume, New York, NY, Illusions of Separation
*Borghi Fine Art, Sag Harbor, NY, Already There
2020
White Columns Inc, New York, NY, Cloud Memories
2019
*Freight & Volume, New York, NY Homeland
2017
*Ober Gallery, Kent, CT Way Back In
2016
*Four AM, New York, NY Benjamin King
2014
*Arts & Leisure, New York, NY Simple Mountain
*Longhouse Projects, New York, NY Abdolreza Aminlari and Benjamin King
*Laroche/Joncas, Montreal, Ca Various Deposits
Zürcher Studio, New York, NY Salon Zürcher
Underdonk, New York, NY Genesis Forward Battery
2012
Bruce High Quality Foundation / Vito Schnabel, New York, NY Brucennial
2011
ART BLOG ART BLOG, New York, NY Snowclones
Bronx River Art Center, New York, NY The Working Title
2010
Participant Inc., New York, NY The Collective Show
Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA Paper Awesome
2009
ACME, Los Angeles, CA Seasonal Pictures
Grants and Awards
2018
DNA residency
2013
Edward F. Albee Foundation
Talks
2020
Mt. Gretna School of Art, Pennsylvania Chautauqua, July 29, 2020 10:00 AM
Curatorial Projects
2009- 2017
HKJBlog, http://hkjbny.blogspot.coM
2015
HKJB, Bushwick, NY Temple of Vates
2014 Underdonk, Bushwick, NY Genesis Forward Battery
2013
The Sphinx, New York, NY End Times
HKJB, Collective Show, Mexico City, Mx Collective Show Mx
2012
Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montreal, Ca Upside Downturn
2011
ARTBLOGARTBLOG, New York, NY Snowclones
HKJB, Bushwick, NY Control Alt Delete
HKJB, New York, NY Pieced Together
2010
Participant Inc., New York, NY Collective Show
HKJB, Long Island City, NY Portable CaveS
HKJB, Collective Show, Silver Shed, New York, NY ABCyz
2009
HKJB, Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY Bad Graphic Design
HKJB, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY Personal Abstraction
Selected Bibliography
2021
Castle, Terry, On Benjamin King, Freight & Volume
Chejfec, Sergio, To Electric City, The Evergreen Review
2019
Nedzamar, Samir, Homeland, Freight & Volume
2017
Haggarty, Catherine, Review : The Secret Life of Plants, Curator
2014
Fisher, Michelle Millar, Abdolreza Aminlari and Benjamin King, ARTnews
2014
Kohler, William, Benjamin King at Longhouse Projects, Huffington Post
2014
Romashevskaya, Irina, Longhouse Projects Abdolreza Aminlari and Benjamin King, Nu Mode Magazine: 193
2012
Rosati, Lauren and Staniszewski, Mary Anne, Alternative Histories New York Art Spaces 1960-2010, EXIT Art and The MIT Press
2011
Russeth, Andrew, Control Alt Delete: A One-Night HKJB Show in Bushwick, 16 Miles of String
Skene, Cameron, Benjamin King, Border Crossings, Issue 117
2009
Warner, Emily, Art Minus Gallery: 'Personal Abstraction' in Sunset Park, Bomblog