Ben Polsky

Page 1 | Biography

Born: Miami
Lives: Newark, New Jersey

Education
1986- 89
BFA - San Francisco Art Institute - CA
1984- 86
School of Visual Arts - New York

Solo Exhibitions
2007
Structural Process - Westby Gallery - Rowan University, NJ
2005
Site21 - Luxe Gallery, New York
2003
SiteUnseen - Luxe Gallery, New York
2002
SiteUnseen, - Sharadin Art Gallery - Kutztown University, PA

Group Exhibitions
2010
Modern Fracture - Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
2009
Drawing - Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
2008
Re-Mix 2 - Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
Sprawl - Jersey City Museum, NJ
2007
Pulse Miami - Margaret Thatcher Projects, NY
Year 07 Art Projects - Thatcher Projects, London
A Time to Build Up and a Time to Tear Down - Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NY
Places - Luxe Gallery, NY
Spaces into Places - Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago
NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition - Ben Shahn Galleries - William Paterson University, NJ
Smack Mellon Art Benefit - Brooklyn, NY
2006
Singular - Galleri S E, Bergen, Norway
Smack Mellon Art Benefit - Brooklyn, NY
2005
Fifteen Paces - Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
ARTissima12 - Luxe Gallery Booth, Torino
Weird NJ: The Exhibition - Here Art Center, New York
2004
Simply Drawn - Luxe Gallery, New York
FIAC - Luxe Gallery NY, Paris
Stop & Stor - Luxe Gallery, New York
ArtWalk NY - Invitational to benefit Coalition for the Homeless, New York
Postcards From the Edge, Visual Aids benefit - Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York
2003
Toronto International Art Fair, Luxe Gallery Booth
ArtWalk NY - Invitational to benefit Coalition for the Homeless, New York
d.u.m.b.o. Arts Center - Winter Invitational Benefit, Brooklyn, NY
2002
The Drawing Center - 25th Anniversary Show, New York
The San Francisco Art Fair - Gallery 16, San Francisco
MCS Gallery, Pennsylvania
2001
Ben Polsky and Holli Schorno - Gallery 16, San Francisco
2000
Hunterdon Museum of Art, New Jersey
1998
Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston
Art Exchange Show - Esso Gallery, New York
1997
The Drawing Center - Selections - Winter '97, New York

Bibliography
Ken Johnson, SiteUnseen.
New York Times - August 8, 2003
Tim Higgins, Ben Polsky : SiteUnseen.
Art and Story Magazine - Vol. 1 No. 1 - October 2002
Tony Sienzant, The Express Times - July 26, 2002
Megan Wilson, Ben Polsky and Holli Schorno
San Francisco Bay Guardian - February 21, 2001
William Zimmer, Contemplating categories among genres
New York Times - January 7, 2001
Dan Bischoff, Arts fellows show off their creativity
The Star Ledger - January 7, 2001
Alan Gilbert, Building Locations: Recent Works By Ben Polsky
January 4, 2001
Douglas Century, Heard The One About Hip Newark?
New York Times - Sunday Styles Section, May 14, 2000
Robert M. Murdock, Selections - Winter '97 at The Drawing Center
Review, December 1, 1997

Grants/Awards
2006
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation / New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Fellowship Award Recipient, Works on Paper
2001- 02
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Grant Recipient
2000
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation / New Jersey State Council on the Arts

Fellowship Award Recipient, Works on Paper

Publications
2008
Rockman, Deborah. Drawing Essentials - Oxford University Press
2007
Harper's Magazine June 2007, Readings p.25
Hatchadoorian, Lisa. Structural Process Exhibition catalogue - essay.
Westby Gallery - Rowan University, New Jersey
2006
Premnath, Sreshta/Rit. SHIFTER 9, ruin/monument, Web Magazine
Gilbert, Alan. Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight - Wesleyan University Press
2005
Onnen, Serge. DRAWINGS ON GEOLOGY - J&L; Books
2002
Dan Talley. SiteUnseen Exhibition catalogue - Interview : Correspondence.
Sharadin Art Gallery , Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
1999
Newark Review - Volume 2, Set 3, New Jersey Institute of Technology
1998
Newark Review - Volume 2, Set 1, New Jersey Institute of Technology