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Benjamin Jones
Born: 9/27/1954 Atlanta, Georgia
Education: BFA 1977, State University of West Georgia
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Observations, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2011 New Works, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2010 Line and Language, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2008 Sins + Virtues, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Drawing a Diversion, John Martin Gallery, London, England
2007 Line, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2006 Benjamin Jones @ Art London, Royal Hospital Chelsea, London
Benjamin Jones, Barbara Archer Savannah, Savannah, Georgia
2005 The Alexander Homage Drawing Series, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2004 Works on Paper, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
Benjamin Jones Drawing, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Drawing, 1708 Gallery, Richmond Virginia
Isolation, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Figure, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2002 Works on Paper, 1987-2002, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 A Short Life, Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1994 Dr. Frankenstein’s Animal Show, Mattress Factory Building, Atlanta, Georgia
1993 Nature’s Oddity, Billboard, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Works on Paper, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2016 Art on Paper, Stewart Gallery, New York, New York
2014 10 Artists 48 Days, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2013 Drawing Inside the Perimeter, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Winter Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
4 x 4, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Dallas Art Fair, Stewart Gallery
2012 Trading Places Part 1: Selected Works from the MOCA GA Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Dallas Art Fair, Stewart Gallery
25, Stewart Gallery, Boise Idaho
Obsolescence – Invitational, Stewart Gallery, Boise Idaho
2011 Dallas Art Fair, Stewart Gallery
2010 Is Anybody Out There, Winter Group Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise Idaho
Los Angeles Art Fair, Stewart Gallery
Art Chicago, Stewart Gallery
2009 Black and White, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2008 Master Drawings London, London, England
2006 Group Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
Objects of Desire, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Graphic Expressions: American Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Permanent Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Evidence: Paper Works, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
2005 Recent Acquisitions, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Drawing Conclusions, Georgia State University Rialto Center for the Performing Arts,
Atlanta, Georgia
2004 Contemporary Southern Drawings from the Permanent Collection, High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, Georgia
Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects. New York, New York
Winter Group Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2003 Gallery Artist Group Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
Reading: material Volume Gallery New York, New York
2002 Georgia Triennial, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia
1999 Winter Group Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
1998 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
1995 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
1994 National Endowment for the Arts and Southern Arts Federation Regional Fellows,
Southeast Center of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Creating in Crisis: Making Art in the Midst of AIDS, Spaces Contemporary Art Center,
Cleveland, Ohio
1988 Artists in Georgia, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
SELECTED AWARDS
2000 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Individual Artist Grant
1997 Residency Fellowship, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia
1996 Residency Fellowship and CGR Scholarship, The Hambridge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia
1994 National Endowment for the Arts and Southern Arts Federation Regional Fellowship
1993 Georgia Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant in Drawing
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennslyvania
High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mennello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, Florida
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Huntsville Museum Of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
Morris Museum Of Art, Augusta, Georgia
State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia
Phillip Aarons + PRINTED MATTER New York
Patch Adams, M.D. + Gesundheit Institute, Arlington, Virginia
The Judith Alexander Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
Lucinda Bunnen, Atlanta, Georgia
Edie Falco, New York, New York
King and Spalding, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia
James Brett, London, England
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2003 TIFFANY AWARDS. The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, catalog, pub. 2004.
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