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BEN CHASE 
 

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Permanent Collection

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1308 Factory Place #408, Los Angeles, CA 90013  (310)926-1278  benchas2@gmail.com
www.benchaseart.com  @benchase_art  

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1981 - MFA, Whitney Independent Studio Program 1976,  
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1976 - BFA

Permutations, Still Life Studio (curated by Claire Zhao and Elizabeth Brice-Heames)

Abstraction Not Abstraction, PRJCTLA, LA (curated by Carl Berg) 
Empirical Nonsense NYC   https://empiricalnonsense.today/end/ben-chase
Square Peg/Round Hole - International LGBTQ Photography, PhotoLA, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica
Curated by Phil Tarley; also City of West Hollywood Long Hall Gallery
Presentation of “IOL@IAO” Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin
IOL@IAO (Imitations of Life at the Institute for Art and Olfaction) LA 
ART IS HOPE “Remove Clothes” PAISA, Paris (curated by Rene-Julien Praz)
Barnsdall Art Foundation Group Show
“Alptraum” Group show: Company Gallery, LA; blank projects, Cape Town; Goethe Institute, Johannesburg;
Green Papaya Art Projects & Telenobela, Manila (organzed by Jay Stuckey)
Getty Museum,”California Video: Artists and Histories” (curated by Bruce Yonemoto/Glenn Phillips) 
Watch Me Get Watched, Telic Arts Exchange (organized by Glenn Phillips and Catherine Taft)
Mandrake, Culver City (curated by Catherine Taft) 
The Brewery “Hausguests” (curated by Nena Amsler, William Rabe) 
GENDEROSITY, 4F Gallery, Chinatown, LA
HAUS, Pasadena - solo (curated by Nena Amsler, William Rabe)
From the Edge, benefit show at Sperone Westwater, NYC 
Group Show, Basic Plumbing, LA (curated by T. Dimitrus Chandler)   
Los Angeles Municipal Arts Gallery Group Show (curated by Connie Butler)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) Front Window Installation, LA  (curated by Ed De La Torre) 
Striking Distance http://strikingdistance.com (organized by Mitchell Syrop) 
True Bliss, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), LA  (curated by Kenneth Riddle) 
CHANCE, Whiskey Pete’s Casino, Primm, NV (curated by Sarah Gavlak & Pam Strugar)
Marc Foxx Gallery, LA  (curated by Larry Johnson)
Paradise Found - Project X, Occidental College Amphitheater, LA 
Food House, LA (solo) 
Anniversary Show, Food House, LA
Loose Slots, Las Vegas, NV (curated by Richard Kuhlenschmidt)
Bliss, Pasadena, CA - solo  
Courtyard Project, Sue Spaid Fine Arts, L.A.
In Memory of Nature, Marymount College, NYC
Harvest 2001, Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ  
Made In New York, Rastovski Gallery, NYC
The New Who’s Who, Hoffman Borman Gallery, L.A. (curated by Marvin Heiferman)
Skeptical Belief(s), Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (curated by Suzanne Ghez)
Group Show, 303 Gallery, NYC
Fresh Fruit, A&P Gallery, NYC
4x4 - Artists Pick Artists, Jus de Pomme Gallery, NYC  (selected by Jenny Holzer)
Video Showing, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Collaborations, Alternative Museum, NYC
TV Works, Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art (LAICA)
Sign on a Truck, NYC  (curated by Jenny Holzer)
     Fifth Avenue and 60th Street; also Bowling Green Plaza.
     Additional coverage: Kitchen, NYC; Dutch Network and Cable Television; WABC TV News;
     WOR TV News; Cable News Network, Election Side Bar.
Lecture and showing, Werkstatt fur Fotografie, VHS Kreuzberg, Berlin
Tyler Alumnae Invitational - Fiftieth Anniversary, Philadelphia, PA
Kunst und Massenmedien, Vienna
West Coasters, Hara Museum and Image/Form, Tokyo  (curated by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto)
Video showing, The Kitchen, NYC
Lately in LA, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC (curated by Kathy Huffman) 


CCI Arts Grant (Center for Cultural Intervention at California Community Foundation) 2014    
NY Foundation for the Arts Grant 1985
NEA Grant 1983  

MacDowell Fellowship, NH  
Dorland Colony, CA  

Parsons School of Design, NYC  1985 - 1989 
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
 
303 Gallery - 35 Years (2019)  Lisa Spellman, Editor
now past later (2016)  Maxwell Williams, Editor 
Odou Magazine - Issue 4 (2015)  Liam Moore, Editor

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