Ben Howe
E D U C A T I O N
2011
Master of Fine Art, HD, RMIT University
2001
Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education, Monash University
1998
Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), RMIT University
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2017
Weave, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016
Themes of Dislocation and Habitation, St Francis, Melbourne
2015
Monochroamatic Anomalies, Lorimer Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014
Within the Grey, Shangyuan Museum of Modern Art, Beijing, China
2013
The Sum of its Parts, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2012
Signs, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Exploring Transience: locating meaning within the urban crowd. First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Schism Overwrite, As Soon As Gallery, Hamburg
2009
Graffscapes, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
2008
Urban Fractures 2, 5-502, Sydney
2007
Once Upon a Space, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
Raumatisiert, Wir sind Woanders, Europien art festival, Hamburg
Urban Fractures, SKAMraum, Hamburg
2006
Surface Variations, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2004
Forms and shadows, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
2003
Selected works, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2017
NotFair 2017, Melbourne
The 13th Hour, Last Rites Gallery, New York, USA
If Our days wont Last, Distinction Gallery, Escondido, CA, USA
Art collecter starter kit, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016
Metro Summer Show 2016, Melbourne
Beinart Small Works 2016, Melbourne
Metropolis, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
Transmogrify, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne
Beinart Inaugural Exhibition, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne
2014
Shangyuan Resident Artists 2014, China
Ben Howe and HaHa – Second Story Studio, Melbourne
Strange Attractor, D11, Melbourne
2013
Supporters Exhibition, D11, Melbourne
Urban, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
Your Old Self, Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne
2012
Exploration 12. Flinders Land Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Art fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Matter and Space. Ne Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Possibilities, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
Dark Horse. The Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
It’s Not You, It’s Me, Eckersley's Open Space Gallery, Melbourne
Climate Change. Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2011
RMIT Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition. Gossard Project Space, Melbourne
The Brunswick Show, Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne
Space and the city, Eckersley's Open Space Gallery. Melbourne
Surface: Texture, Materiality and Conceptual Plasticity, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2010
SoBright, Prague, Melbourne
New, Used and Abused, Loft Gallery, Melbourne
The Brunswick Show, Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne
Irenes Street art festival, Irene, Melbourne
Out of Nowhere, 696 INK, Melbourne
Grand Opening Show, 696 INK, Melbourne
Urban Art 10A, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne
2009
Gaengeviertel, Hamburg
Melbourne stencil festival, Collingwood, Melbourne
Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Painting 09A, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2007
Stencil and Freeform Combinations, A.S.A, Hamburg
Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2003
Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Contingency, RMIT Graduate Show, Span Galleries, Melbourne
C U R A T O R I A L
2009
Pigeon hole 4, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
Pigeon hole 3, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
Conduit, Brunswick street gallery, Melbourne
Pigeon hole 2, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
2008
Pigeon hole 1, The Pigeon Hole, Melbourne
R E S I D E N C I E S / T E A C H I N G A N D R E L A T E D A C T I V I T I E S
2016
Double Dialogues: Why do things Break Symposium: ‘Instances of Anomaly’, University of Adelaide
2015
Residency: Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, USA
2014
Residency: Shangyuan Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013-14
Teacher, Melbourne Studio of Art, Elsternwick, Australia
2009
Organised Creative Warehouse Network, Brunswick/Northcote, Australia
2008
Established ‘Pigeon Hole Studios’, Brunswick, Australia
2007
Residency: SKAM, Hamburg, Germany
2005
Research and Teaching: India, Egypt and Europe
2002 – 2009
Teacher, secondary school and adult education. Australia/ U.K / Germany
A W A R D S A N D H O N O U R S
2017
Hill Smith Award
2016
Black Swan, Finalist
2015
Whyalla Art Prize, Finalist
2014
Doug Moran Semi Finalist
Ian Potter Cultural Trust
Cliftons Art prize, Finalist
2012
Metro Award, Finalist
Doug Moran, Shortlisted
RMIT Vice chancellors List Award for academic excellence
2011
Dark Horse MFA Award
Metro Award, Finalist
2009
Window Frames, Winner
Melbourne stencil festival, emerging artist Award
2008
I Art Sydney Road, 1st prize
Small works 08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Highly commended
