BEN ALPER

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Tabula Rasa
Memento Mori
More Than Words...
Erasure
Pixel Portraits
The Family Dig
Domestic Equivalence

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Ben Alper
b. 1983, Westerly, RI

EDUCATION

2009, BFA, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
All of This Is Rocket Science, The Black Box Project, nofound Photo Fair, Paris, France
Macabre & Mysticism, Red Roots Gallery, New York, NY
How To Disappear, Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
The Collector's Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2 Exhibition, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2010
Manual Transmission Miami, NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
Manual Transmission, Bush Gardens Rooftop, Brooklyn, NY
Bushwick Open Studios, 250 Moore, Brooklyn, NY
Graphic Intersections, Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Postcards From the Edge, ZieherSmith, New York, NY
2009
ARTribe:Photography For The Next Generation, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition, Mass Art, Boston, MA
Mass Art's 20th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Boston, MA
PRC Student Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
2008
ARTcetera Art Auction, Boston, MA
A-4 Galley, Mass Art, Boston, MA
Insight Photography Project Silent Auction, Brattleboro, VT
Exposure Project, Tillies of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
All School Show, Mass Art, Boston, MA
2007
Exposure Project, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
Exposure Project, Center for Photographic Exhibitions, Boston, MA
2006
Artcetera Art Auction, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

PUBLICATIONS

The Collector's Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2 - Humble Arts Foundation
The Exposure Project Book, Issue # 3
The Exposure Project Book, Issue # 2
The Exposure Project Book, Issue # 1
In The Loupe

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Violet Strays
Share Mag
Landscape Stories, Issue 2
SuperMassiveBlackHole, Issue 5
Moloko + Magazine, Issue 10
No Culture Icons
Unless You Will, Issue 4
52 Editions
The Photography Post
01 Magazine, Issue 4
Ahorn Magazine, Issue 2
Wassenaar, Issue 1
Flak Photo
F-Stop Magazine, Issue 23
Group Show # 13
Northeast Exposure Online, PRC
Phase Collective 02: Community

INTERVIEWS

Mossless Magazine (interview conducted by SuperMassiveBlackHole)
All of This Rocket Science (Interview concucted by Pauline Magnenat)
Mull It Over (Interview conducted by Jonathan Cherry)
01 Magazine (Interview conducted by Jeff Otto O'Brien)

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

LOOKbetween, Charlottesville, VA 2010 (Festival Nominator)
Graphic Intersections: Volumes 1 & 2, 2009/10
The Portrait As Allegory, Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2010
Theartspace Photography Competition, 2009
The Exposure Project Book, Issue 4, 2009
The Exposure Project Blog (Ongoing)

Downloadable CV (PDF)