Solo exhibitions

2012

Phantoms of a Libertine, Kate MacGarry, 

2012

Ben Rivers, Hepworth Wakefield

2011

Sack Barrow, The Changing Room, Stirling

Sack Barrow, Hayward Project Space, London

Slow Action, Matt’s Gallery, London

2010

Slow Action, Picture This, Bristol

On Overgrown Paths, Impressions Gallery, Bradford

Origin of the Species, Kate MacGarry, London

2009

A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool

Origin of the Species & Slow Action, Picture This, Bristol

2008

On Overgrown Paths, Permanent Gallery/Regency Town House, Brighton

2006

House, St Simon & St Jude Gallery, Norwich

 

Selected commissions

Slow Action, Picture This, 2009-10

I Know Where I’m Going, Vauxhall Collective Commission, 2009

Ah, Liberty! and Origin of the Species, London Artists’ Film and Video Award, 2007

Sørdal, Arts Council England, South East, 2006

The Coming Race, Surface Gallery Commission, 2006

House, Arts Council England, South East, 2005

Selected solo screenings (2008-11)

Two Years at Sea, 55th BFI London Film Festival

Two Years at Sea, 63rd Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti section)

Ben Rivers, IndieLisboa

The Coming Race in Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld

The House and The Woods, Punto de Vista, Pamplona

Ben Rivers at the Edge of the World - London Film Festival

Artist-in-focus, Courtisane, Vooruit, Ghent

Tribute, VIS, Vienna

A World Rattled of Habit, LA Film Forum

This Is My Land, Yerba Buena Centre of for the Arts, San Francisco

The Poetic Horror of Ben Rivers, Other Cinema, San Francisco

On the Nature of Affinities, Union Theatre, Milwaukee

A World Rattled of Habit, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Centre, Chicago

Omaggio a Ben Rivers, Pesaro International Film festival, Italy

Ben Rivers Films, Inverness Film Festival

 

Selected group exhibitions, screenings and projects

2012

LOST SPACES.Sites of photography, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

2011

Spectrum of Light, Temporary Gallery Cologne

2009

Practical Truths, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

Serpentine Screening Series (with Javier Tellez), Gate Cinema, London

Out Of This World, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland

An Entangled Bank, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

Artprojx/FLAMIN Matinee, Prince Charles Cinema, London

For Robert Frank, National gallery of Art, Washington

Figuring Landscape, ArtSway, New Forest; Tate Modern, London – then touring to: Dundee Contemporary Arts; FACT, Liverpool; Vivid, Birmingham; Showroom, Sheffield; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; Site Festival, Stroud Valley Artspace; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Media-Space, Stuttgart.

2008

SYNDICATE, Rokeby, London

Wild Shapes, Cell Projects, London

Claremorris Open, Claremorris, Ireland

If - People and Places in recent film and video, Bloomberg Space, London

Art With Strangers, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh

We Can Not Exist In This World Alone (with Ben Russell), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; SOFA gallery, Christchurch; Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney; OtherFilm, Brisbane

Tank TV presents, Artprojx, London

Soundtracks, Nought To Sixty, ICA, London

2007

Kyoto Media Art Week, Kyoto Art Centre, Japan

Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva

Mayflies, Site Gallery, Sheffield, and Cornerhouse, Manchester

Tank TV - Fresh Moves: New Moving Images from the UK (DVD)

European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck,

Prizewinners Show (with Tomas Chaffe), Surface Gallery, Nottingham

2006

A Ses Parents, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

A Certain Tendency in Representation, Cineclub, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Open Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

New Work UK, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

2005

Without Boundaries - European Artists Film and Video, Watershed, Bristol

Ways of Worldmaking (with Jeremy Butler), Permanent Gallery, Brighton

 

Education

1990-93 - BA Fine Art, Falmouth School of Art

1996-2006 – Director/Programmer, Brighton Cinematheque

 

Selected awards

Fipresci Award, Best Film Orizzonti and International Critics’ Week, 68th Venice Film Festival

Baloise Art Prize, Art/42/Basel 2011

Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists 2010

Shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2010

Tiger Award Best Short Film – International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008

Best Experimental Film – Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival 2008

Best ExiS Award, ExiS, Seoul 2008

The Badass Spirit of Blackhawk Award, ICE, Iowa 2008

Jury Main Prize - $100 Film Festival, Calgary 2008

Jury Prize – Hamburg Short Film Festival, 2007

Main Prize - Surface Gallery Open, 2006

 

Selected recent press

Listen to Britain: On the Outskirts with Ben Rivers, Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope, Issue 43, 2010

Enduring portrait of the wilderness years, Laura McLean-Ferris, The Independent (Viewspaper), 23 April 2010, p.16

Ben Rivers, Steven Cairns, Artforum.com, 8 April 2010

Slow Action, Ben Rivers, Map Magazine, Spring 2010

Ben Rivers Interview, Daniel Bennet, littlewhitelies.co.uk, April 2010

In The Studio - Ben Rivers, Helen Sumpter, Time Out London, 25-31 March 2010, p.40

Ben Rivers, Skye Sherwin, The Guardian Guide, 20-26 March 2010, p.39

Ben Rivers, Jonathan Griffin, Frieze, January-February 2010, pp.125-6

Ben Rivers, David Trigg, Art Monthly, February 2010, pp. 20-1