BEN ARONSOn bio
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E D C U C A T I O N
Boston University, M.F.A. Painting, 1982
Boston University, B.F.A. Painting, 1980
A W A R D S / G R A N T S / R E S I D E N C I E S
Childe Hassam Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 2006
Academician Appointment, National Academy of Design, New York, 2005 Benjamin Altman
Landscape Prize, National Academy of Design, New York, 2004
J. Sandford Saltus Gold Medal, National Academy of Design, New York, 2004
National Academy of Design, New York, Ogden M. Pleisner Painting Awards, 1992
American Society of Perspectivists, New York, Thomas Fisher Award, 1991
National Academy of Design, New York, William P. & Gertrude Schweitzer Painting Prize,
1990
Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Grant, 1989
The Blanche E. Coleman Award for Painting, 1988
The St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant in Painting, 1988
Artist in Residence, Beaver Country Day School, 1985-1988
Sudbury Art Association, First Prize in Drawing, 1987
The Blanche E. Coleman Award for Painting, 1986
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
Urban Perspectives (two-person exhibition with Robert Birmelin), Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA,
2014
Cityscapes by Ben Aronson, Asheville Museum of Art, NC, 2013
Cityscapes by Ben Aronson Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, 2013
Ben Aronson, Ann Norton Sculpture Museum, West Palm Beach, FL, 2013
Ogunquit Museum of Art, ME, 2011
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2011
Risk and Reward, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, 2010
The Urban Signature, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2009
Urban Currents, Tibor de Nagy, New York, NY, 2008
Explorations, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Ben Aronson: Recent Works, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2006 (catalogue)
Ben Aronson: Recent Works, Tibor de Nagy, New York, NY, 2005 (catalogue)
Painterly Visualizations, Jenkins Johnson, San Francisco, CA, 2004 (catalogue)
Ben Aronson, DFN Gallery,New York, NY, 2003
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2002
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2000
SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA, 1998
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA, 1998
MB Modern, New York, NY, 1997
Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, 1996
Jerry Solomon Gallery, Hollywood, CA, 1996
Louis Meman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, 1994
Nancy Lincoln Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1989
Julia-Saul Gallery, Sudbury, MA, 1987
Lane Gallery, Gordon College, Wenham, MA, 1986
Nancy Lincoln Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA 1983
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
Aronson to Aronson: The Lineage of Expressionism, Ogunquit Museum of Art, ME, 2011
A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney, Bellagio Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas,
NV, 2011
Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
Nagoya, Japan, 2010
Art in Embassies Exhibition, U.S. Embassy, Tunis, Tunisia, 2010
People, Places & Things: The Art of Aronson, Babb and Soth, Naples Museum of Art, Naples,
FL, 2009
Urban Experiences, Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ, 2009
Contemporary Still Lifes, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, 2008
Master Prints, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 2007
Landscapes: Rural and Urban Landscapes, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, 2007
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New
York, 2006
The Figure in American Painting, Ogunquit Museum of Art, Ogunquit, ME, 2006
From Private Walls, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, FL, 2006
Re-Presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, 2005
Looking Back, Moving Forward, Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, 2004
179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of
Design, New York, 2004
Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2001-4
Dualities, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, 2004
Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2004
Sixth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson, San Francisco, CA, 2004
Contemporary Portraits, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2000
Altered Streets: Boston Artists Paint Boston, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1999
SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA, 1998
MB Modern, New York, NY, 1998 (April & November)
Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1998
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA, 1998
MB Modern, New York, NY, 1997
Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA, 1997
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA, 1997
Jerry Solomon Gallery, Hollywood, CA, 1996, 1997
Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, 1996, 1995
Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1995
Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, 1994, 1993
National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 1992
AIA National Convention, Boston, MA, 1992
Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1992
Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA, 1992
Mickelson Gallery, Washington, DC, 1992
American Society of Civil Engineers, Washington, DC, 1991
Urban Center of the Municipal Art Society, New York, NY, 1991
National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 1990
Copley Society, Boston, MA, 1990
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 1988
Quadrum Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1984
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, 1982, 1980
S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S
AOL Time Warner
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL
Boston Public Library, Prints & Drawings Collection, MA
Boston University
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Cabot Corporation
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IO
Colorado Springs Museum of Fine Art, CO
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Delaware Art Museum
Denver Museum of Contemporary Art
Detroit Institute of Art
DeYoung Museum, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Edgerton Germishausen & Greer, MA
Eli & Edythe Broad Museum of Art, East Lansing, MI
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Hansen, Lind, Meyer, Inc., Orlando, FL
Houston's Restaurants, Phoenix, AZ
Leaf Systems, Inc., Southborough, MA
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Naples Museum of Art, FL
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
The New York Times
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME
Orlando Museum of Art, FL
Palm Springs Art Museum, CA
Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, WI
Reading Public Fine Art Museum, Reading, PA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
San Diego Museum of Art, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Sheraton Corporation
Sony Corporation
State of Rhode Island, State House, Providence, RI
Suzhou Museum, Jiangsu Province, China
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Taylor Art Museum, Colorado Springs, CO
United States of America, Federal Courthouse, Providence, RI
Universal Aluminum Corporation, MA
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Vero Beach Museum of Art, FL
Vieques Museum of Art, Puerto Rico
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Walt Disney Corporation Warner Bros.
Wellington Management Corporation
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA
Zaldastani Associates, Boston, MA
S E L E C T E D B I B L I O G R A P H Y
Aronson to Aronson: The Lineage of Expressionism, forward by Ron Crusan, Ogunquit
Museum of American art, 2011 (exhibition catalogue)
The Boston Globe, City Slivers, May 19, 2009
James Foritano, ArtScope Magazine, May/June, 2009
Maureen Mullarkey, Capturing a Scene, Minus the Camera, The New York Sun, April 10, 2008
Donald Kuspit, Ben Aronson: Urbane Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, April 2008
(exhibition catalogue)
Mark Rifkin, Review: Ben Aronson, Urban Currents, This Week in New York, April 30, 2008
R.C. Baker, Review: Ben Aronson, The Village Voice, April 29, 2008
Lea Feinstein, Reviews: National, ARTnews, Summer 2007
Gallery Guide, West Coast, On the Cover: Ben Aronson: Explorations, May 2007
ARTnews, illus., May 2007
James F. Cooper, Contemporary Realism, The View from San Francisco, American Arts
Quarterly, Fall 2007
Daniel Grant, Urban Geometries, Nov. 8, 2005
Daniel Grant, "Ben Aronson: Prolific, Popular, and Climbing in Price", ARTnewsletter, Nov. 8,
2005
"Voices Choices", The Villiage Voice, Oct. 5-11, 2005
Kenneth Baker, "Bubbling Over in Talent", ARTnews, September, 2004
Gail Leggio, "Exhibitions", American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2004
Mario Naves, "Conflicts of Interest", New York Observer, May 31, 2004
Daniel Kunitz, "Institutional Exhibitions", The New York Sun, May 6, 2004
Review, New York Magazine, May 10, 2004
Mark Rifkin, "National Academy's 179th Annual Enters Last Week", New York Resident, June
14, 2004
Margaret Lee, "Fifth Annual Realism Invitational", Artnews, Sept. 2003
Gregory Peterson, "What Motivates a Collector?", American Artist, Ap.2002
Joanna Fink, "Ben Aronson: New Paintings”, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2000 (exhibition
brochure)
Cate McQuaid, "Altered Streets: Boston Artists Paint Boston", Boston Globe, January 28,
1999
Margaret Combs, "Speaking in Images," Fay Magazine, 1995, p. 35 - 37 and 65 (illustrations)
ARTnews, October, 1997
ARTnews, February, 1996
The New York Times, March 12, 1995
Gerald Nordland, "Ben Aronson: California Visions," Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills,
CA, 1994 (exhibition brochure)
I N T E R I O R S A N D S O U R C E S , M A R C H / A P R I L , 1 9 9 2
Ben Aronson with Bebe Raupe, "Ben Aronson: National Academy of Design," The Artist's
Magazine, August, 1990
Architecture in Perspective VI, 1990
Review, Art New England, April 1989
Jen Ehrenworth, ed., The Cabot Corporation Collection, 1985
Jack Kramer, Human Anatomy and Figure Drawing, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1984 (2nd
edition)
T E A C H I N G
University of Massachusetts, Nantucket Island, 2002, 2003
The Great River Art Institute, Walpole, NH, 2001
Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1997, 1996, 1995
Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1983-90
Boston University School of Fine Arts, 1981-82, 1980-81