Ben Rivers
Page 1 | Biography
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Born: Somerset, 1972
Lives: and works in London
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1990-93 - BA Fine Art, Falmouth School of Art
1996-2006 � Director/Programmer, Brighton Cinematheque
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2011
Sack Barrow, The Changing Room, Stirling
Sack Barrow, Hayward Project Space, London
Slow Action, Matt�s Gallery, London
2010
Slow Action, Picture This, Bristol
On Overgrown Paths, Impressions Gallery, Bradford
Origin of the Species, Kate MacGarry, London
2009
A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool
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
Selected commissions
Slow Action, Picture This, 2009-10
I Know Where I�m Going, Vauxhall Collective Commission, 2009
Ah, Liberty! and Origin of the Species, London Artists� Film and Video Award, 2007
S�rdal, Arts Council England, South East, 2006
The Coming Race, Surface Gallery Commission, 2006
House, Arts Council England, South East, 2005
Selected solo screenings (2008-10)
Ben Rivers, IndieLisboa
The Coming Race in Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
The House and The Woods, Punto de Vista, Pamplona
Ben Rivers at the Edge of the World - London Film Festival
Artist-in-focus, Courtisane, Vooruit, Ghent
Tribute, VIS, Vienna
A World Rattled of Habit, LA 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
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2009
Practical Truths, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Serpentine Screening Series (with Javier Tellez), Gate Cinema, London
Out Of This World, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland
An Entangled Bank, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Artprojx/FLAMIN Matinee, Prince Charles Cinema, London
For Robert Frank, National gallery of Art, Washington
Figuring Landscape, ArtSway, New Forest; Tate Modern, London � 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
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; SOFA gallery, Christchurch; Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney; OtherFilm, Brisbane
Tank TV presents, Artprojx, London
Soundtracks, Nought To Sixty, 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,
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
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Listen to Britain: On the Outskirts with Ben Rivers, Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope, Issue 43, 2010
Enduring portrait of the wilderness years, Laura McLean-Ferris, The Independent (Viewspaper), 23 April 2010, p.16
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
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Baloise Art Prize, Art/42/Basel 2011
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists 2010
Shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2010
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 2008
Jury Prize � Hamburg Short Film Festival, 2007
Main Prize - Surface Gallery Open, 2006
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