Ben Howe (artist)

2020 Dark Art, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne 2020 Antipodes, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne 2019 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney 2019 Lester Prize, Art Gallery of WA, Perth Cultural Centre, WA. 2019 Dark Art, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne 2018 Australian Art, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne 2018 Ephemeral, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2018 Focal Point: New Realist Painting. Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide 2018 Dark Art Show, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne 2018 Bluethumb Award, Melbourne 2017 NotFair 2017, Melbourne 2017 The 13th Hour, Last Rites Gallery, New York, USA 2017 If Our days won't Last, Distinction Gallery, Escondido, CA, USA 2017 Art collecter starter kit, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, USAv 2016 Metro Summer Show 2016, Melbourne 2016 Beinart Small Works 2016, Melbourne 2016 Metropolis, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne 2016 Transmogrify, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne 2016 Black Swan prize, Art Gallery of WA, WA. 2016 Beinart Inaugural Exhibition, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne 2015 Whyalla art prize exhibition, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide 2014 Shangyuan Resident Artists 2014 2014 Ben Howe and HaHa – Second Story Studio, Melbournev 2014 Strange Attractor, D11 Docklands 2013 Supporters Exhibition, D11 Docklands 2013 Urban, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne 2013 Your Old Self, Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Exploration 12. Flinders Land Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Melbourne Art fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2012 Matter and Space. Ne Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand 2012 Possibilities, Metro Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Dark Horse. The Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne 2012 It's Not You, It's Me, Eckersley's Open Space Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Climate Change. Metro Gallery, Melbourne 2011 RMIT Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition. Gossard Project Space, Melbourne 2011 The Brunswick Show, Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne 2011 Space and the city, Eckersley's Open Space Gallery. Melbourne 2011 Surface: Texture, Materiality and Conceptual Plasticity, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne. 2010 SoBright, Prague, Melbourne 2010 New, Used and Abused, Loft Gallery, Melbourne 2010 The Brunswick Show, Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne 2010 Irene's Street art festival, Irene, Melbourne 2010 Out of Nowhere, 696 INK, Melbourne 2010 Grand Opening Show, 696 INK, Melbourne 2010 Urban Art 10A, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne 2009 Gaengeviertel, Hamburg 2009 Melbourne stencil festival, Collingwood, Melbourne 2009 Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2009 Painting 09A, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne 2007 Stencil and Freeform Combinations, A.S.A, Hamburg 2007 Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne BSG stand 2003 Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne 1997 Contingency, RMIT Graduate Show, Span Galleries, Melbourne

In 2019, Howe was a finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, and the Lester Prize. He has also been a finalist in the Black Swan Prize (2016), and the Metro 5 Award, (2012+2011). In 2017, he won the Hill Smith Prize at NotFair. He has been the recipient of residencies and fellowships including the Ucross Foundation, USA (2015), Shangyuan Art Museum, China (2014), and SKAM, Germany (2007).

Howe's paintings have been featured as cover art on several music releases (including ‘Graded’ by Cirex), book covers and reproduced in magazines and journals including Hi Fructose, Beautiful Bizarre, Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia, Double Dialogues and Out of Step Books. In 2019, his paintings were used in a new publication of Moby Dick, celebrating Herman Melville’s 200th anniversary.

2019 Leviathan, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2018 A Strange Architecture, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, Australia 2017 Weave, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2017 Selection, Mycelium, Melbourne 2016 Themes of Dislocation and Habitation, St Francis, Melbourne 2015 Monochromatic 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 2007 Raumatisiert, Wir sind Woanders, European art festival, Hamburg 2007 Urban Fractures, SKAMraum, Hamburg 2006 Surface Variations, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne 2004 Forms and shadows, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne 2003 Selected works, Manyung Gallery, Melbourne

Benjamin Howe (born 1977 in London, England) is a contemporary Australian artist is known primarily for his figurative and experimental oil painting. He holds a Masters of fine art degree with distinction from RMIT University.