Born Somerset, 1972 , lives and Works in London.

Selected Solo Shows:

On Overgrown Paths, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 2010

Slow Action, Picture This, Bristol, 2010

Ben Rivers, Indielisboa, 2010
Origin of the Species, Kate MacGarry, London, 2010
A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool, 2009
Slow Action /Origin of the Species, Picture This, Bristol, 2009
Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, 2009
The House and The Woods, Punto de Vista, Pamplona, Spain 2009
On Overgrown Paths, Permanent Gallery, Brighton and Regency Town House, Hove, 2008
House, St Simon St Jude Gallery, Norwich, 2006

Selected Commissions:

Slow Action, Picture This, 2009
I Know Where I'm Going, Vauxhall Collective Commission, 2009
Ah, Liberty! and Origin of the Species, London Artists Film and Video Award, 2007
Sordal, Arts Council England, South East, 2006
The Coming Race, Surface Gallery Commission, 2006
House, Arts Council England, South East, 2005

Selected Solo Screenings 2008/09:

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

Artprojx/FLAMIN Matinee, Prince Charles Cinema, London
Nought To Sixty, ICA, London
Ben Rivers at the Edge of the World, 52nd BFI London Film Festival
Artist-in-focus - Courtisane, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
Tribute, VIS, Vienna
A World Rattled of Habit, Los Angeles 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 Shows:

2009
Practical Truths, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Out Of This World, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland
An Entangled Bank, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
For Robert Frank, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Figuring Landscapes- ArtSway, New Forest; Tate Modern, London. 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 and SOFA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand; Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney; OtherFilm, Brisbane
Tank TV presents, Artprojx, London
Soundtracks, 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, Germany
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:

1996-2006 Director/Programmer, Brighton Cinematheque
1990-93 BA Fine Art, Falmouth School of Art

Selected awards:

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, Canada,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

Ben Rivers, Laura McLean-Ferris, The Independent, 23 April 2010

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