Born 1972 in Somerset, lives and works in London |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2019 |
Urthworks, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, UK |
2016 |
Urth, Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA |
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Islands, Kunstverein in Hamburg |
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The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, The Whitworth, Manchester |
2015 |
Solo Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London |
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The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, Artangel Open Commission 2013, Television Centre, White City, London |
2014 |
Things, Kate MacGarry, London |
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Fable, Temporary Gallery, Cologne |
2013 |
Ah Liberty!, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
2012 |
Phantoms of a Libertine, Kate MacGarry |
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Ben Rivers, Hepworth Wakefield |
2011 |
Sack Barrow, Changing Room Gallery, Stirling |
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Sack Barrow, Hayward Gallery project Space |
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Sack Barrow, Kate MacGarry at Art Basel, Art Statements |
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Slow Action, Matt’s Gallery, London |
2010 |
Slow Action, Picture This, Bristol |
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On Overgrown Paths, Impressions Gallery, Bradford |
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Origin of the Species, Kate MacGarry, London |
2009 |
A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool |
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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 |
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SELECTED COMMISSIONS |
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2013 |
Artangel Open Commission |
2010-11 |
Sack Barrow, Changing Room, Stirling |
2009-10 |
Slow Action, Picture This |
2009 |
I Know Where I’m Going, Vauxhall Collective Commission |
2007 |
Ah, Liberty! and Origin of the Species, London Artists’ Film and Video Award |
2006 |
Sørdal, Arts Council England, South East |
2006 |
The Coming Race, Surface Gallery Commission |
2005 |
House, Arts Council England, South East |
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SELECTED SOLO SCREENINGS |
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Slow Action, screening and talk at Contemporary Art Society, London |
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A Spell to Ward off the Darkness, The Imprint of Sound Film Festival, Taiwan |
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A Spell to Ward off the Darkness, Lithuanian Cultural Centre, New York |
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Phantoms of a Libertine,International Film Festival Rotterdam |
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The Creation as we saw it, Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou |
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Two Years at Sea, 55th London Film Festival |
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Two Years at Sea, 68th Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti section |
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Ben Rivers, IndieLisboa |
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The Coming Race in Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld |
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The House and The Woods, Punto de Vista, Pamplona |
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Ben Rivers at the Edge of the World – London Film Festival |
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Artist-in-focus, Courtisane, Vooruit, Ghent |
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Tribute, VIS, Vienna |
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A World Rattled of Habit, LA Film Forum |
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This Is My Land, Yerba Buena Centre of for the Arts, San Francisco |
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The Poetic Horror of Ben Rivers, Other Cinema, San Francisco |
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On the Nature of Affinities, Union Theatre, Milwaukee |
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A World Rattled of Habit, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Centre, Chicago |
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Omaggio a Ben Rivers, Pesaro International Film festival, Italy |
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Ben Rivers Films, Inverness Film Festival |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & PROJECTS |
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2019 |
Utopia/Dystopia Revisited curated by Yuko Shiraishi, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK |
2018 |
Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy |
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Bienal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
2017 |
Fifteen, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
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Truth: 24 frames per second, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA |
2016 |
What Means Something, Film Society of Lincoln Center |
2015 |
Quaypurlake, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK |
2014-16 |
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Centre Fellow / David and Roberta Logie Fellow |
2013 |
Insomnia, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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Someone Else, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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NEW WORLDS: BEN RIVERS/ BEN RUSSELL, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve |
2012 |
LOST SPACES.Sites of photography, Hamburger Kunsthalle |
2011 |
Spectrum of Light, Temporary Gallery Cologne |
2009 |
Practical Truths, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester |
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Serpentine Screening Series (with Javier Tellez), Gate Cinema, London |
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Out Of This World, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland |
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An Entangled Bank, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh |
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Artprojx/FLAMIN Matinee, Prince Charles Cinema, London |
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For Robert Frank, National gallery of Art, Washington |
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Figuring Landscape, ArtSway, New Forest; Tate Modern, London, 2009 – 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 |
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Wild Shapes, Cell Projects, London |
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Claremorris Open, Claremorris, Ireland |
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If – People and Places in recent film and video, Bloomberg Space, London |
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Art With Strangers, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh |
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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 |
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Tank TV presents, Artprojx, London |
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Soundtracks, Nought To Sixty, ICA, London |
2007 |
Kyoto Media Art Week, Kyoto Art Centre, Japan |
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Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva |
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Mayflies, Site Gallery, Sheffield, and Cornerhouse, Manchester |
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Tank TV – Fresh Moves: New Moving Images from the UK (DVD) |
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European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck |
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Prizewinners Show (with Tomas Chaffe), Surface Gallery, Nottingham |
2006 |
A Ses Parents, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
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A Certain Tendency in Representation, Cineclub, Thomas Dane Gallery, London |
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Open Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham |
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New Work UK, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
2005 |
Without Boundaries – European Artists Film and Video, Watershed, Bristol |
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Ways of Worldmaking (with Jeremy Butler), Permanent Gallery, Brighton |
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EDUCATION |
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1990-93 |
BA Fine Art, Falmouth School of Art |
1996-06 |
Director/Programmer, Brighton Cinematheque |
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SELECTED AWARDS |
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2016 |
EYE Art and Film Prize |
2015 |
Best Short Documentary:DOKUFEST 14th International Documentary & Short Film Festival |
2012 |
Ann Arbor Film Festival Jury Prize |
2011 |
Fipresci Award, Best Film, Orizzonti and International Critics’ Week, 68th Venice Film Festival |
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Baloise Art Prize, Art/42/Basel |
2010 |
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists |
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Shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award |
2008 |
Tiger Award Best Short Film – International Film Festival Rotterdam |
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Best Experimental Film – Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival |
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Best ExiS Award, ExiS, Seoul |
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The Badass Spirit of Blackhawk Award, ICE, Iowa |
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Jury Main Prize – $100 Film Festival, Calgary |
2007 |
London Artist Film and Video Award (LAFVA) |
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Jury Prize – Hamburg Short Film Festival |
2006 |
Main Prize – Surface Gallery Open |
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SELECTED PRESS |
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2015 |
Ben Rivers: The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, Timeout, p.92, July 7 |
2014 |
Ben Rivers’s “Things”, Melissa Gronlund, Art Agenda, Oct 3 |
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Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, 1000 words, introduction by Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith, ArtForum |
2013 |
Ben Rivers, Coleen Fitzgibbon, BOMB, issue 125, pp. 54-63 |
2012 |
A Man Apart, Ben Rivers talks to Andrea Picard, Sight and Sound, Ma |
2011 |
More than a Feeling, Dan Kidner in conversation with Ed Atkins, Melanie Gilligan, Anja Kirschner and Ben Rivers, frieze, issue 142, Octobe, pp.210-5 |
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Somerset or, A Glance at the Deep Future of the Avant-Garde, Mark von Schlegell, frieze, issue 141, September, pp. 140-5 |
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Part of The Process – Into the Wild, Ed Halter, Mousse Magazine issue 28, April – May, pp. |
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Ben Rivers – Slow Action, Helen Sumpter, Time Out London, 28 February |
2010 |
Listen to Britain: On the Outskirts with Ben Rivers, Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope, Issue 43 |
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Enduring portrait of the wilderness years, Laura McLean-Ferris, The Independent (Viewspaper), 23 April, p.16 |
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Ben Rivers, Steven Cairns, Artforum.com, 8 April |
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Slow Action, Ben Rivers, Map Magazine, Spring |
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Ben Rivers Interview, Daniel Bennet, littlewhitelies.co.uk, April |
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In The Studio – Ben Rivers, Helen Sumpter, Time Out London, 25-31 March, p.40 |
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Ben Rivers, Skye Sherwin, The Guardian Guide, 20-26 March, p.39 |
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Ben Rivers, Jonathan Griffin, Frieze, January-February, pp.125-6 |
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Ben Rivers, David Trigg, Art Monthly, February, pp. 20-1 |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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2013 |
Ah, Liberty!, Published by The Douglas Hyde Gallery, catalogue coordination by Michael Hill |
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In the Holocene, edited by Joao Ribas |