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EDUCATION
2003 Wesleyan University, Middletown,
CT. BA, High honors, Department of Art.
2000 Universidad de las Americas,
Puebla, Mexico. Independent Study in Painting with Muralist Jose Lascarro.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Solo Exhibition, Mark Moore
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2007 GlamTrance, Mark Moore Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA.
2006 Eastern Boys and Western Girls
(with David Shapiro), Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY.
2005 Ben Weiner: Paintings, Fine
Art in Space, Long Island City, NY.
2002 Recent Works, Plotkin Gallery,
Dobbs Ferry, NY.
2000 Mural-Inspired Painting, Universidad
de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Full Circle: Ten Years of Radius,
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
Pulse
Miami Art Fair with Mark Moore Gallery, Miami, FL.
Painting's
Edge, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
Pretty
Things: Confronting Senuousness, Artspace, New Haven, CT.
2007 Pulse Miami Art Fair with Mark
Moore Gallery, Miami, FL.
Art
Chicago with Jonathan Novak Contemporary, Chicago, IL.
Pulse
New York Art Fair with Mark Moore Gallery, Manhattan, NY.
2006 Pulse Miami Art Fair with Mark
Moore Gallery, Miami, FL.
Aldrich
Undercover, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
Ultrasonic
International, Mark Moore Gallery. Santa Monica, CA.
Nova
Art Fair with Kathleen Cullen Fine Art, Chicago, IL.
Pod
Art II, Fine Art in Space/31 Grand, New York, NY.
Scope
New York Art Fair with 31 Grand, New York, NY.
2005 All That Glitters, Kathleen
Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY.
RADIUS,
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum/ RGA Gallery, Ridgefield, CT.
The
Industrial Landscape in Contemporary Painting, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY.
2004 The Gym Show, 508w 26th st,
New York, NY.
2003 Thesis Exhibition, The Ezra
and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. Middletown, CT.
1999 Permanent Collection, Art Really
Gallery. Dobbs Ferry, NY.
1997 Small Works, Pace University
Gallery. Pleasantville, NY.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Frederick
R. Weisman, CA.
Progressive
Insurance, OH.
Sammlung/Collection
Mondostudio, Assembled by Adrian Koerfer, Germany.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 Kobasa, Stephen Vincent, "Painted
Over: Reflections on a Desperate Art," New Haven Advocate, June
05.
2007 Resneck,
Jacob, "Ben Weiner: GlamTrance," Cool Hunting
Jacobs,
Joseph, “Strange Forces: Ben Weiner,” Art and Antiques,
June.
Dean,
Cecilia. "Finger on the Pulse," V Magazine, February.
New
American Paintings, Exhibition-in-print # 56, juried by Darsie Alexander,
Curator of Contemporary Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art.
2006 Ollman, Leah, "Larger Than
Life in Liquid Pigment," Los Angeles Times, July 28.
“International
Art with Youthful Edge,” Around the Galleries, The Los Angeles
Times, July.
Gordon,
Margery, "Art Basel Miami: Pulse Beats Sophomore Slump," ArtInfo.com,
Dec.
2005 New American Paintings, Exhibition-in-print
# 68, juried by Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 Lecturer at Painting's Edge
Idyllwild Arts Program.
2006 Video Design, La Historia de
Llorar por El, by Ignacio Apolo. Mexico City.
Art
Design, Colas, Colas, y Nicolas, by Alberto Dominguez, Mexico City.
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