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Ben Altman

Solo Exhibitions

2014    Talk Tomkins    Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY
2013    Say Peekskill    Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2011    Memory Mechanism    Community Art Partnership of Tompkins County NY Artspace
2010   Trouble Seeing Trouble    Installation    Second Story Gallery, Trumansburg, NY

Exhibitions with 2x2 Collective

2013    2x2 Collective: double consciousness    Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
2012    skin hides    Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

Group Exhibitions

2014    Social Portraits: Six Photographers    Kirkland Art Center    Clinton, NY
            Fresh Air    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center    New York, NY
            Social Portraits: Six Photographers    Kirkland Art Center    Clinton, NY
            The National: Best Contemporary Photography, Fort Wayne Museum of Art   
            ONWARD Compé, Project Basho, Philadelphia    PA   
2013    Illusive Self    Taller Boricua, New York, NY
            Marriage Equality    Ithaca, NY
2012    The Fearless Eye    ArtRage Gallery    The Other New York    Syracuse, NY, Biennial
            Saunders Farm Project    Hudson valley, NY
            The More That Is Taken Away    in: Figure Drawing    Pratt MWP, Utica, NY, 3-person show
            Citizens Are Encouraged To Use The Pencils Provided    in: Drawing on Democracy   Tompkins County Library, Ithaca, NY
            Made in New York    Schweinfurth Art Center    Auburn, NY

2011    Arcades Project    Ithaca, NY,    Scarf Swap - Installation and connection game.
            bookMARKs Robert B. Menschel Gallery, Syracuse University, Pop-up show
            Juried Photography Invitational State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2010    MARK-up      Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY
            Flight    Ithaca-Tompkins Regional Airport, Ithaca, NY
            Juried Photography Invitational    State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2009    A Book About Death    Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
            Empty Chairs    Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service,    CSMA,    Ithaca, NY
            Juried Photography Invitational    State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2008    Juried Photography Invitational    State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2007    Juried Photography Invitational    State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2005, 2004    Around The Coyote    Chicago, IL

Publication

2013     Sites/Sights    Lenscratch online magazine    Link

Awards

2014     Artist in Community NYSCA Decentralization Grant for Talk Tompkins
2012     Fiscal Sponsorship    Artspire - a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts
            Electronic Media and Film Finishing Funds Grant    NY State Council on the Arts
            Strategic Opportunity Stipend    NY State Council on the Arts
2009    Intellectual Challenge    Juried Photography Invitational    State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2008    Best in Show    Juried Photography Invitational    State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2007    Honorable Mention    Juried Photography Invitational    State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2005    Curator’s Choice    Around The Coyote    Chicago, IL

Residencies

2012    Sculpture Space, Utica, NY — with 2X2 Collective

Collective

2x2 Collective:    Sandra Stephens, Maria Driscoll McMahon, Ben Altman

Education

2010    MARK Alumni Consultant Training    New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
2009    MARK Professional Development Course    NYFA
1976     BSc.    Physics    University College London