American, b. 1958
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 2023
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2022
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, CA 2021 exhibition catalogue
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2021
MM Fine Art, Southampton, NY 2020
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2019
St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA 2019
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 2018
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2018
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2017 exhibition catalogue
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 2014
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC 2014
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Art Market San Francisco, CA 2014
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA 2013
Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens and Museum, West Palm Beach, FL 2013
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 2010 exhibition catalogue
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 2009
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 exhibition catalogue
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 2008 exhibition catalogue, essay Donald Kuspit
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 exhibition catalogue
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 2006 exhibition catalogue
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 2005 exhibition catalogue
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 exhibition catalogue, essay Gerald Nordland
DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2003
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 2002
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 2000
Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA 1999
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA 1998
MB Modern, New York, NY 1997
Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1996
Jerry Solomon Gallery, Hollywood, CA 1996
Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA 1994
MM Fine Art, Southampton, NY 2023
Winter Collection
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2022
Selections: Winter 2022
Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2022
New Aquisitions
University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME 2019
Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective
New Britian Museum of American Art, CT 2016 exhibition catalogue
As We See It: The Collection of Gail and Ernst von Metzsch
San Diego Museum of Art, CA 2016
Urban Banality
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME 2015
New Acquistions
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL 2014
Selections from Fifty Years of Collecting
University of New Hampshire Art Museum, Durham, NH 2012
What’s New: Recent Additions to the Collection
The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME 2011 exhibition catalogue
Aronson to Aronson: The Lineage of Expressionism
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Bellagio Gallery, Las Vegas, NV 2011
A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney
Nagoya/Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Nagoya, Japan 2010
Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting
ART in Embassies Exhibition, United States of America Embassy
Tunis, Tunisia 2010
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL 2010
People, Places & Things: The Art of ARONSON, BABB, and SOTH
Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ 2009
Urban Perspectives
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 2008
Contemporary Still Lifes
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL 2007
Master Prints
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 2007
Landscapes: Rural and Urban Landscapes
Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI 2007
Contemporary Urban Landscape
American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, 2006
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME 2006
The Figure in American Painting
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2006
Cities Different
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY 2005
Re-Presenting Representation (catalogue)
Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005
Looking Back, Seeing Forward
National Academy of Design, New York, NY 2004
179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art (catalogue)
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco 2001- 2009
Realism Invitational, (catalogue)
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2004
Dualities
Hidell-Brooks, Charlotte, NC 2004
Still Life and Streets
DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2003
The Burbs
Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA 2002
Form & Conscience: Figurative Art from Mid-Century to Present
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 2001
Contemporary Portraits
Alter & Gil Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 1999
The Aronsons
Exxon-Mobil 1998-1999
Meridian International Traveling Exhibition (catalogue)
US, China, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 1999
Altered Streets: Boston Artists Paint Boston
MB Modern, New York, NY 1998
Town & Country
Perspectives
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA 1998
Urban Suburban
MB Modern, New York, NY 1997
Contemporary Figures
Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA 1997
The Distinct Still Life
Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1995
About American Realism: Part I
Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1995
Only in America
Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA 1994
Contemporary Perspectives II
Interiors
National Academy of Design, New York, NY 1992
167th Annual Exhibition (catalogue)
American Institute of Architects, Boston, MA 1992
National Convention Exhibition
National Academy of Design, New York, NY 1990
165th Annual Exhibition (catalogue)
The Copley Society, Boston, MA, 1990
The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 1988
AOL Time Warner, NY
Baupost Group, MA
Cabot Corporation, MA
Dodge & Cox, CA
General Atlantic, NY
Gordon Brothers, MA
The New York Times, NY
Sheraton Corporation, NY
Sony Corporation, CA
Tiffany & Co., NY
SPO Partners & Company, CA
VISA Inc., San Francisco, CA
The Walt Disney Company, FL
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., CA
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Prize, 2006
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Academician Appointment, 2005
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, 2004
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
J. Sanford Saltus Gold Medal for Painting, 2004
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Ogden M. Pleissner Painting Award, 1992
American Society of Architectural Perspectivists, New York, NY
Thomas Fisher Award, 1991
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
William P. & Gertrude Schweitzer Painting Prize, 1990
Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Grant, 1988
The Blanche E. Coleman Award for Painting, 1988
The St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant in Painting, 1988
Massachusetts Lottery Grant for Painting, 1987
The Blanche E. Coleman Award for Painting, 1986
Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Boston University, 1980-82
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Boston University, 1976-80
Studied under:
Philip Guston, James Weeks, David Aronson, Reed Kay, John Wilson
University of Massachusetts, Nantucket Island, 2002, 2003
Plein air painting
The Great River Art Institute, Walpole, NH, 2001
Plein air painting
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1995-1997
Drawing seminar
Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1983-90
Instructor, Visual Arts
Boston University, School of Fine Art, 1981-82
Adv. Anatomy & Figure Drawing, Teaching Asst. to Professor Jack Kramer
Boston University Art Gallery, 2005
University of Massachusetts, Art Department, 2002, 2003
Wellesley College, Art Department, 2001, 2002
Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1995-2002, 2008
Charrette Corporation, 1991
Rhode Island School of Design, 1990
Boston University School of Visual Art, 1989
Gordon College, 1989
Southeastern Middlesex University, 1988
Massachusetts College of Art, 1987
Boston University, Summer Art Institute, 1985
Michael Abatemarco, Urban Nature: Ben Aronson’s Arrivals & Departures
Pasatiempo, August 26, 2022
John O’Hern, Manhattan to Montauk,
American Art Collector, July 2020
Daniel Grant, Ben Aronson: Painting the City,
Fine Art Connoisseur, November/December 2019
Artnet News, 10 Must-See Exhibitions During the First-Ever Santa Fe Art Week, July 11, 2019
Jonathan Curiel, There’s a Scientific Reason That ‘California Light’ Attracts Artists,
SF Weekly, August 24, 2018
Review: Fine Art Today, Cityscapes With Emotionally Charged Brushwork, May 20, 2018
Daniel Graham, Aronson: Fine Art on Wall Street, Art Aesthetics Magazine, December 10, 2017
John O’Hern, The Spellbinding Mystery of it All,
American Art Collector, October 2017
Andrew Webster, Tableaux of urban Geometry,
Fine Art Connoisseur, October 2017
Kathering French, As We See It, The Collection of Gail and Ernst von Metzsch
New Britian Museum of Art, 2016
Jean-Baptist Ezanno, Aux Deuils de L’Ame, (cover)
Editions L’Age d’Homme, 2015
John S. Sledge, Roy Hoffman, Paul Richelson, The Mobile Museum of Art: Selections from
Fifty Years of Collecting, 2014
Rebecca Monroe, Art Without Explanation
Kanas City InfoZine, May 12, 2014
Patrick Pappano, Owning Main Street: A Beginner’s Guide to the Stock Market,
Cardyf Company, 2013
Jan Sjostrom, Painter Ben Aronson Uses Light to Capture Modern City Life
The Palm Beach Daily News, January 4, 2013
Martin Karlin, Ben Aronson on Exhibit Through February 10th at the Ann Norton
Art of the Times, 2013
Joshua Brown, Backstage Wall Street, (cover)
McGraw-Hill Education, 2012
Kenneth Baker, From Air and Light to Airmail
San Francisco Chronicle, 2012
Daniel Kany, Art Review: Ogunquit Museum’s Current Shows are Too Good to Miss
The Portland Press Herald, August 28, 2011
Donald Kuspit, The Mood of Money
ArtNet Magazine, October 2010
Rebecca Monroe, Ben Aronson’s Risk & Reward: A Painter’s Response to Big Business, Kanas City InfoZine, November 2010
Donald Miller, Reviews: National
Artnews, June, 2010
James Foritano,
ArtScope Magazine, May/June 2009
Maureen Mullarkey, Capturing a Scene, Minus the Camera
The New York Sun, April 10, 2008
Donald Kuspit, Ben Aronson: Urbane Paintings
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, April 2008 (exhibition catalogue)
Mark Rifkin, Review: Ben Aronson, Urban Currents
This Week in New York, April 30, 2008
R.C. Baker, Review, Best in Show: Ben Aronson
The Village Voice, April 29, 2008
Lea Feinstein, Reviews: National
ARTnews, Summer 2007
Gallery Guide, West Coast, May 2007
On the Cover: Ben Aronson: Explorations
ARTnews, illus., May 2007
James F. Cooper, Contemporary Realism, The View From San Francisco,
American Arts Quarterly, Fall 2007
Daniel Grant, Ben Aronson: Urban Geometries,
American Artist, June 2006
John O’Hearn, Secret Visions
American Art Collector, June 2006
Joanna Fink, Ben Aronson: Recent Paintings,
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2006 (exhibition catalogue)
Daniel Grant, Ben Aronson: Prolific, Popular, and Climbing in Price,
The ARTNEWSLETTER, November 8, 2005
Voice Choices,
The Village Voice, October 5 – 11, 2005
Kenneth Baker, Bubbling Over in Talent,
ARTnews, September 2004
Gail Leggio, Exhibitions,
American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2004
Mario Naves, Conflict of Interest,
New York Observer, May 31, 2004
Daniel Kunitz, Institutional Exhibitions
New York Sun, May 6, 2004
Review, New York Magazine, May 10, 2004
Mark Rifkin, National Academy’s 179th Annual Enters Last Week,
New York Resident, June 14, 2004
Margaret Lee, Fifth Annual Realism Invitational,
ARTnews, September 2003
G. Peterson, What Motivates a Collector?
American Artist, April 2002
Joanna Fink, Ben Aronson: New Paintings,
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2000 (exhibition brochure)
Cate McQuaid, Altered Streets: Boston Artists Paint Boston,
The Boston Globe, January 28, 1999
ARTnews, illus., October 1997
ARTnews, illus., February 1999
The New York Times, March 12, 1995
Gerald Nordland, Ben Aronson: California Visions,
Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, 1994 (exhibition brochure)
Bebe Raupe, Benjamin Aronson: National Academy of Design,
The Artist’s Magazine, August 1990
Review, Architecture in Perspective VI, 1990
Review, Art New England, April 1989
Jan Ehrenworth, ed., The Cabot Corporation Collection, 1985
Jack Kramer, Human Anatomy and Figure Drawing,
Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1984 (2nd edition)