September 3 - October 16, 2011
Ben Weiner: Paintings and Video
The Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Information: www.eiu.edu/tarble

September 20, 2011, 7pm
Lecture
The Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Information: www.eiu.edu/tarble

September 22, 2011, 7pm
Lecture
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Information: artdept.nd.edu/events/calendar/visiting-artist

May 20 - July 11, 2011
Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Ben Weiner: Na + (aq) + C5H8NO - (aq) NaC5H8NO4(s) (New Media Room)

June 1 - 26, 2011
David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
RED Force Fields

July 2010
SUMMER GROUP SHOW AT DAVID RICHARD CONTEMPORARY
http://www.davidrichardcontemporary.com

June 2010
AWARDED 2010 NYFA PAINTING FELLOWSHIP
Press release and full list of 2010 fellows and panelists at http://www.nyfa.org/level4.asp?id=385&fid=1&sid=1&tid=15

CATALOG PUBLISHED BY MARK MOORE GALLERY
Now available on pre-order, Mark Moore Gallery: Statements 3 features Ben Weiner, complete with images from his upcoming solo exhibition, Material and Illusion, as well as works in public collections, a full-length interview and press excerpts.
Email publications@markmooregallery.com to purchase($20 + s/h)

June 5 - July 3 2010
MATERIAL AND ILLUSION AT MARK MOORE GALLERY, Santa Monica, CA
Opening Reception: June 5th, 5-7pm
http://www.markmooregallery.com

Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to host Ben Weiner's second solo exhibition in Los Angeles. For the first time in the artist's career, the gallery will debut four stop-motion video works in addition to five studio-fresh oil paintings rendered in his signature photorealistic technique.
Through cropped magnifications, Weiner decontextualizes the commonplace to achieve conceptually transcendent and enigmatic abstractions. In his most recent body of work, the artist continues to resolve mass production with artistic creation by referencing Clement Greenberg's formalist notion of art exploring the nature of medium. Weiner's portrayals of synthetic materials such as high-fructose corn syrup, beauty products, and oil paint, achieve arresting duality through their vague familiarity and simultaneous mystique, reflecting our zeitgeist's fascination with artifice and imitation. In conversation with Weiner's transformative videos, his paintings confront our societal resistance to mortality and the unrefined.

March 14 - May 23,
ELEMENTS OF NATURE: SELECTIONS FROM THE FREDERICK R. WEISMAN ART FOUNDATION AT THE CARNEGIE ART MUSEUM
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
The ancients believed that the world consisted of four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Although they have been replaced by modern scientific elements, these four essential states have continued to inspire artists. This exhibit gathers together works of art that reflect on how the four elements continue to have meaning in our lives.

December 3 - December 6, 2009
PULSE MIAMI WITH MARK MOORE GALLERY, Miami, FL
http://www.pulse-art.com/miami.

Fall 2009
OPEN APPLE SHIFT 3, MUSEO VOL.12
An exhibition of screenshots organized by Timothy Hull and David Shapiro.
http://www.museomagazine.com.

January 2, 2009
"FULL CIRCLE" NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE AND REVIEW

"A Show Goes Heavy on a Traditional Medium Yet Feels Fresh," by Benjamin Genocchio:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/nyregion/connecticut/04reviewct.html

"Celebrating a Decade of Nurturing Artists on the Verge," by Susan Hodara:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/nyregion/connecticut/04artsct.html

November 28, 2008 - May 31, 2009:
FULL CIRCLE: TEN YEARS OF RADIUS AT THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, Ridgefield, CT
http://www.aldrichart.org
Reception: December 14, 2008, 3-5 pm.
This exhibition will feature work from the first ten years of Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern New York , a professional development program for regional artists, which is jointly organized by The Aldrich and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists. Curated by Regine Basha from Arthouse in Austin, Texas, the exhibition will present a selection of recent works produced by alumni of the program.

July 22 - August 16, 2008
PAINTING'S EDGE SHOW AT TO RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM, Riverside, CA
http://www.riversideartmuseum.org.
Every year a two-week workshop in painting - painting techniques, painting subjects, painting ideas - takes place "up the hill" in Idyllwild, as part of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program. Conducted from its inception by Roland Reiss, who began the workshop after retiring as head of the art department at Claremont Graduate University, "Painting's Edge" brings visiting artists and critics from the Los Angeles area and other parts of the country together with enrollees whose own ideas and ambitions as painters keep the dialogue lively, collegial, and productive. For the past several years the Riverside Art Museum has hosted a show sampling work from "Painting's Edge" participants, visiting artists and enrollees alike, providing us a taste of the workshop's vital exchange of concepts and methods. Closer to sea level, the energy does not diminish a bit. With Fred Tomaselli, Pat Steir, Mark Bradford, Beatriz Milhazes, Peter Plagens, Roland Reiss, Wendell Gladstone, Patsy Krebs, Andy Moses, Laurie Fendrich, Jill Giegerich, Leslie Shows, Micaela Amateau Amato, Ben Weiner, Stephen Maine, Peter Clothier, and Carol Lee Chase.

June 21 - July 4, 2008
LECTURE AT PAINTING'S EDGE IDYLLWILD ARTS PROGRAM, Idyllwild, CA
http://www.idyllwildarts.org/
Lecture: Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 7 pm
Advanced Painting Resident Workshop with Critiques, Lectures, Discussions, and Exhibitions. Designed for serious painters, Painting’s Edge is an intensive painting workshop and conference combined. For others interested in comtemporary painting, the program offers the public a rare opportunity to attend lectures and view exhibits by internationally and nationally renowned painters and critics. Lecturers include Fred Tomaselli, Pat Steir, Mark Bradford, Beatriz Milhazes, Peter Plagens, Roland Reiss, Wendell Gladstone, Patsy Krebs, Andy Moses, Laurie Fendrich, Jill Giegerich, Leslie Shows, Micaela Amateau Amato, Ben Weiner, Stephen Maine, Peter Clothier, and Carol Lee Chase.

May 15 - August 9, 2008
PRETTY THINGS: CONFRONTING SENSUOUSNESS AT ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT
http://www.artspacenh.org/.
This exhibition seeks to explore the role of sensuousness in contemporary art and promote new discussion about the significance of materials and form in art-making, beyond the context of formalist rhetoric. Including not only work that demonstrates a direct embrace of sumptuous materials and explores traditionally “decorative” motifs, enticing textures, and rich colors, but also work that problematizes seductive aesthetics in contemporary art with conscious irony or ambivalence. Curated by Joy Pepe. With Kelly Bigelow Becerra, Phyllis Bramson, Mia Brownell, Oliver Herring, Grant Lincoln Johnston, Joyce Kozloff, Cristi Rinklin.

June 2007
Ben Weiner is featured as an emerging artist in the June 2007 issue of Art and Antiques.
http://www.artandantiquesmag.com/Articles/Emerging-Artists/Ben-Weiner.asp.


May 19 - July 7, 2007
GLAMTRANCE AT MARK MOORE GALLERY
http://www.markmooregallery.com.
Opening reception: May 19th, 5-7pm

April 27 - 30, 2007:
ART CHICAGO WITH JONATHAN NOVAK CONTEMPORARY ART
The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
http://www.artchicago.com.


February 22 - 25, 2007
PULSE NEW YORK WITH MARK MOORE GALLERY
69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue and 26th Street, New York, NYhttp://www.pulse-art.com.


February 2007:
Ben Weiner's work will be featured in New American Paintings Exhibition-in-print # 68, juried by Darsie Alexander,Curator of Contemporary Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art. http://www.newamericanpaintings.com.


December 7 - 10, 2006:
PULSE MIAMI WITH MARK MOORE GALLERY
2700 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL. 212 255 2327. http://www.pulse-art.com.

AQUA ART MIAMI WITH PLUS ULTRA GALLERY
Aqua Hotel 1530 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL. 206 245-8598 http://aquaartmiami.com.

BRIDGE ART FAIR WITH KATHLEEN CULLEN GALLERY
The Catalina Hotel and Beach Club 1732 Collins Avenue Miami, FL. http://www.bridgeartfair.com.


November 17, 2006:
ALDRICH UNDERCOVER AT THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT, 203-438-4519. http://www.aldrichart.org.


July 8 - August 19, 2006:
ULTRASONIC INTERNATIONAL AT MARK MOORE GALLERY
2525 Michigan Avenue, A-1, Santa Monica, CA, 90404. 310-453-3031. http://www.markmooregallery.com.
Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to present the first in a series of annual summer exhibitions dedicated to featuring young talent from around the world. Artists from North America, Sweden, Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom are represented this year.
Artists: Emily Counts, Craig Fisher. Kimberly Hart, Andrea Hornick, Jun-Ho Kwon, Jonas Ohlsson, Laurent Perbos, Kim Rugg, Ali Smith, Ben Weiner, Kenichi Yokono.


July 7 - August 27, 2006:
LA HISTORIA DE LLORAR POR EL AT LA GRUTA IN EL CENTRO CULTURAL HELENICO
Av. Revolucion 1500,Col. Guadalupe Inn, Mexico City, Mexico. 3640 3139. http://www.helenico.gob.mx
Video art by Ben Weiner will be featured in La Historia de Llorar Por El, the interdisciplinary Mexican theatrical production directed by Damian Cordero.
This series of videos is a collaboration designed and photographed by Ben Weiner and edited and digitally manipulated by Mexican media artist/designer Juan Carlos Contras. Each video was made by combining dozens of photographs into a semblance of motion using computer programs. Elaborating on themes from Weiner’s paintings and from the play La Historia de Llorar Por El, the videos feature attractive, high-resolution macro-images of commercial items such as Kleenex, cigarettes, and candy. While the objects have symbolic potential, the videos undermine narrative possibilities through abstraction and repetitive motion, creating the eerie feeling of TV commercials without words or intentions.


April 27 - 30, 2006:
NOVA ART FAIR WITH KATHLEEN CULLEN GALLERY
City Suites Hotel, 933 W. Belmaont Blvd., Chicago, IL. http://www.novaartfair.com/2006.


April 22 - May 26, 2006:
POD ART II AT FINE ART IN SPACE IN CONJUCTION WITH 31 GRAND
10-47 48th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11120 tel: 718 392 7766. http://www.fineartinspace.com.
Open Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm.
Opening reception Saturday April 22nd, 7 to 9pm.


February 23 - 26, 2006:
SCOPE NEW YORK ART FAIR WITH 31 GRAND
New York, NY. 212-268-1522. http://www.scope-art.com.


January 6 - March 3, 2006:
EASTERN BOYS AND WESTERN GIRLS AT KATHLEEN CULLEN FINE ARTS
526 W 26th Street, Suite 411, New York, NY. 212-463-4519. http://www.kathleencullenfinearts.com.
Opening Reception 6-8pm, Nov 17, 2005.


November 17- January 2, 2006:
ALL THAT GLITTERS AT KATHLEEN CULLEN
526 W 26th Street, Suite 411, New York, NY. 212-463-4519. http://www.kathleencullenfinearts.com.
Opening Reception 6-8pm, Nov 17, 2005.
Works by: Diana Kingsley, Gabriella Kiss, Ted Muehling, Andrea Corson Kiki Smith, Gregg Wolf, Denise Azira, Leah Bendahan, John Noesthedan & Surprise Guests.


November 5 - 20, 2005:
RADIUS AT THE ALDRICH MUSEUM/RGA GALLERY
258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT. 203-438-4519. http://www.aldrichart.org. Talk 2-3:30pm,
Opening Reception 4-7pm, Saturday, Nov 5, 2005.
A panel discussion and exhibition of emerging artists in Westchester County and Connecticut presented by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists. Speakers: Jakie Battenfield, David Opdyke, Rene Lynch. Exhibiting Artists: Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong, Kelly Bigelow Becerra, Michael De Feo, Grant Lincoln Johnson, Nathan Lewis, Laura Moriarty, Tyson Skross, Jeff Slomba, Allyson Smith, Laura Gail Tyler, Cara Vickers-Kane, and Ben Weiner.


September 16 – November 16, 2005:
BEN WEINER PAINTINGS AT FINE ART IN SPACE
10-47 48th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11120 tel: 718 392 7766. http://www.fineartinspace.com.
Open Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm.
Opening reception Friday, September 16, 6-8pm.


September 8 - 30, 2005:
INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES IN CONTEMPORARY PAINTING AT BERNARDUCCI MEISEL GALLERY
35 West 57th Street, 6th floor. tel: 212 593 3757. http://www.bernarduccimeisel.com.
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 10am - 5:30pm


March/April 2005:
Ben Weiner's paintings will be featured in the March 2005 issue of New American Paintings Exhibition in Print. Juror: Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. http://www.newamericanpaintings.com


November 4 – December 11, 2004:
THE GYM SHOW
508 West 26th St New York, NY 10011
The assistants of acclaimed artist Jeff Koons present The Gym Show, featuring the work of Manuel Castro, Travis Frazelle, Paul Jacobson, Peter Knutson, Sacha Mobarak, Arnulfo Toro, Georgi Tushev, and Ben Weiner.
The Gym Show probes an age-old connection between artistic conceptions of the body and the physical body itself. From classical Greek figurative sculpture to Boccioni’s Dynamism of a Cyclist, to Bruce Nauman’s conceptual studies of the body and its external influences, to Knutson’s seemingly machine-made body parts, art forms a relationship between the physical body and our perception of it. The human body is the content of, the muse for, the participant in, and the hand that creates such works of art. Considering this, it is significant that what brought the artists in this show together is their position as the “hands” that physically actualize Koons’s ideas.