Recent
Inheritance
Iceland
Morocco
Uncertain Junctions
Songs of the Young Republic
Portraits
Landscapes Collage
Digital Paintings
Book
About
About
Ben is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer living in
Toronto, Canada. Through his work, he seeks to understand the relationship
between place and identity through compassionate explorations of grief, alienation,
and neurodivergence. His art employs multiple approaches, while thematically
exploring the role of narrative in the construction of the physical and
emotional spaces of our lives. Grounded, in part through his experience of mental illness and disability, as well as his lineage from Holocaust survivors, his practice is defined by a need to express, direct, and come into dialogue with histories of trauma, emotional struggle, and environmental precarity. Through his art, he examines notions of despair, love, and mythology, ultimately providing a visual language that gives meaningful expression to the difficulties we face as human beings.
AWARDS, HONOURS (selected)
2026 — Inheritance Shortlisted for Festival Diecixdieci photobook award
ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
2026 — Diactic/Oneric. Reflex Editions
2025 — Inheritance. Self-published at CPW
2025 — Der Greif, Guest Room, The New Urbanism, online, Munich, Germany
2024 — The Palm Tree Studios, Temps Mort, Santorini, Greece
2023 — Broad Magazine, The Voice That Does Not Ring, online, Vancouver, Canada
2023 — Out of Service Magazine, Selected Photographs, photography, online, Washington, USA
2023 — Map 6 Photography Collective, photography, online, UK
2022 — Nowhere Diary, A Synonym for Meaning, photography, online, Netherlands
2022 — Der Greif, Collectivity, photography, Issue 15, Munich, Germany,
2022 — Valentine Editions, Rock, photography, Issue 1, UK
2021 — Ain’t Bad Magazine, The Road from Eden, photography, Atlanta, GA, USA
2019 — Small Town, Hot Pavement, self-published book, photography, Toronto ON, Canada 2019
COLLECTIONS
2025 — Art Gallery of Ontario, Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives Collection (CA)
EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS, AUCTIONS (selected)
2026 — Salon 44, Gallery 44, Moon, digital photographic print, Toronto, ON
2025 — Frame of Absence, Gallery 44, digital photographic prints, Toronto, ON, 2025
2025 — Salon 44, Gallery 44, Hawks, archival photographic print, Toronto, ON, 2024
2023 — PH Museum Days, Collective Show, PH Museum, Moon, archival photographic print, Bologna, IT
2023 — Blue, Gallery44, Kimchi, archival photographic print, Toronto, ON
2023 — CollectivityAnniversary Show, Der Greif, Les Rencontres d’Arles and Pinakothek der Moderne, photographic prints, Munich, Germany, 2023
2023 — Redbone Coonhound, Tarragon Theatre, Dog with Snake, mixed media on charmeuse silk, Toronto, ON, Can
2022 365 Show, Gallery 44, photography Toronto, ON
2021 — Edition 365, British Journal of Photography, photography, virtual exhibition curated by Heloise Winstone
2021 — Strange Paradigm, Young Space Gallery, photography and collage, virtual exhibition curated by Kate Mothes
2021 — 365 Show, Gallery 44, photography Toronto, ON
2019 — Apolitical Landscapes, Gallery 424, photography, Toronto, ON
2016 — Form = Function, Thunder & Lightning, photography, Sackvile, NB, Canada
FAIRS
2026 — CONTACT Photobook Fair. Stephen Bulger Gallery (CA)