Ben Altman
benaltman123@gmail.com
+1 773 561 9660
Selected Awards
2023 New York State Council on the Arts FY 2023 Artist Support Grant for I Own This Stolen Land
2022 Center for Photographic Art Project Support Grant
New York Foundation for the Arts NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship for I Own This Stolen Land
2019 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design
New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant
The Print Center Philadelphia, PA Honorary Council Award of Excellence
2018 Photolucida's Critical Mass Finalist
The Print Center’s 93rd Annual International Competition Semi-finalist
2017 Photolucida's Critical Mass Finalist
Meitar Award at Photo Is:rael Shortlisted
2016 Silver Eye Center for Photography Commendation Award Fellowship 17 International Photography Competition
2015 Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50
Houston Center for Photography HCP Fellowship 2015
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY Elmer Louis Award 65th Rochester-Fingerlakes
Schweinfurth Art Center Auburn, NY First Place Award, Made in New York 2015
The Print Center’s 89th. Annual International Competition Semi-finalist
2014 Photolucida's Critical Mass Finalist
Soho Photo Gallery New York, NY Runner-up Award Annual Photographic Competition
NY State Council for the Arts Artist in Community Grant forTalk Tompkins
2012 NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship The More That Is Taken Away
NYSCA Electronic Media and Film Finishing Funds Grant The More That Is Taken Away
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY Residency with 2X2 Collective
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 I Own This Stolen Land ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY
The More That Is Taken Away The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY
2023 The More That Is Taken Away Granary Arts, Ephraim, U.T. In parallel with US Holocaust Museum traveling
exhibition Americans and the Holocaust at Snow College
2017 Reverence Dowd Gallery SUNY Cortland Cortland, N.Y.
The More That Is Taken Away Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts Philadelphia, PA
Dream Sofa 7 Stone Hill Quarry Sculpture Park Cazenovia, NY
2016 Site/Sight Light Work Syracuse, NY
Dark Passage: The More That Is TakenAway Handwerker Gallery Ithaca College, NY
Seeing Memorials Community School of Music and Arts Ithaca, NY
2015 Site/Sight Kopeikin Gallery Los Angeles, CA
HCP Fellowship Exhibition Houston Center for Photography Houston, TX
Projects in Black and White Corners Gallery Ithaca, NY
2014 Talk Tompkins Tompkins County Public Library Ithaca, NY Sesquicentennial
2013 Say Peekskill Peekskill Project V Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, NY
2011 Memory Mechanism Community Art Partnership of Tompkins County Ithaca, NY
Exhibitions with 2X2 Collective
2021 Unbalance of Power Atrium Gallery Corning Community College, Corning, NY
2013 2x2 Collective: double consciousness Art Center of the Capital Region Troy, NY
2012 skin hides Gallery Aferro Newark, NJ
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 The View from Here Ain’t Bad Magazine Online exhibition
2019 The Qualities of LIGHT The Center for Creative Photography Tucson, Arizona
Everything I Ever Learnt Art at the ARB/Shutter Hub Cambridge University
2018 Borders Bridewell Theatre London, UK
Context 2018 Filter Space Chicago, IL
2017 Artificial Things Art at the ARB/Shutter Hub Cambridge University, UK (featured artist)
Old School: New School Pingyao International Photo Festival, China (eight artists)
Meitar Award Shortlist Exhibition Photo Is:rael Tel Aviv, Israel
The Curated Fridge Flash Forward Festival Gallery Kafayas Boston, MA
Center Forward The Center for Fine Art Photography Fort Collins, CO
Somerville Toy Camera Festival Somerville, MA
3rd Annual Group Show Davis Orton Gallery Hudson, NY
Reclaiming Our Cultural Landscapes Reclaim Festival, UK
On Beauty Humble Arts Foundation NY Online exhibition
All You Can Eat Ain’t Bad Magazine Online exhibition
2016 Critical Mass Top 50 Fotofestiwal Łódź, Poland
People Who Came To My House ArtRage Gallery Syracuse, NY (curator/anchor)
IPE 159 Royal Photographic Society London, UK and touring.
FRESH 2016 Top Ten Finalist Klompching Gallery Brooklyn, NY
22nd Juried Exhibition Griffin Museum of Photography Winchester, MA
2015 RESPOND! Smack Mellon Brooklyn, NY
I-Thou Kimmel Center Galleries, NYU New York, NY
65th Rochester-Fingerlakes Exhibition Memorial Art Gallery Rochester, NY
Made in New York 2015 Schweinfurth Art Center Auburn, NY
8thAnnual International Juried Plastic Camera Show RayKo San Francisco, CA
2014 This May Have Happened Filter Photo Festival Chicago, IL
The National: Best Contemporary Photography Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN
Social Portraits: Six Photographers Kirkland Art Center Clinton, NY
Fresh Air Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Artspace64 New York, NY
2013 Illusive Self Taller Boricua New York, NY
2012 Constructed Ambiguity City Without Walls Newark, NJ
The Fearless Eye The Other New York Biennial ArtRage Gallery Syracuse, NY
Dream Sofa 4 Saunders Farm Project Collaborative Concepts Garrison, NY
The More That Is Taken Away Pratt MWP, Utica, NY
Citizens Are Encouraged to use the Pencils Provided Tompkins County Public Library
Collections
Fort Wayne Museum of Art Fort Wayne, Indiana
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY
Candela Collection Richmond, VA
Corporate collections
Publication
2018 Void – The Hunger Project, Issue #4 The More That Is Taken Away
Stone Canoe Journal Photograph from Inside Out: An Expatriate’s Views
2017 Float Photo Magazine Ben Altman “The Empty Centre” Featured Interview
2016 BETA Developments in Photography 19 The More That Is Taken Away
ARENA: The Australian Magazine of Left Commentary The More That Is Taken Away
AllAboutPhoto.com Ben Altman: Site/Sight and Memory Mechanism Article by Ann Jastrab
2014 Feature Shoot Site/Sight online magazine
2013 Lenscratch Site/Sight online magazine
Education and Workshops
2016 Gatekeepers of the Art World Sharon Louden Creative Capital
2014 Portrait photography workshop Dawoud Bey Center for Photography at Woodstock
2014 Creative development workshop Carrie Mae Weems Filter Festival
2010 MARK Alumni Consultant Training New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
2009 MARK Professional Development NYFA
1976 BSc. Physics University College London
Work History
1984 – present Self employed: at various times artist, photographer, sail designer, boat rigging, boat deliveries, theater rigger, etc
1996 – 2008 Crowley’s Yacht Yard, Chicago, IL
1986 – 1992 Sadin Photo Group, Chicago, IL, partner/photographer
1979 – 1982 Brookes and Gatehouse, marine instrument engineer, Lymington, UK and Los Angeles, CA
1976 – 1979 Marex, offshore oil oceanographic services and iceberg protection