BEN ARONSON
American, b. 1958
EDUCATION
1980-82 Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Boston University, Massachusetts
1976-80 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Boston University, Massachusetts
AWARDS
2006 Childe Hassam Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
2005 Academician Appointment, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
2004 Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
2004 J. Sanford Saltus Gold Medal, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
1992 Ogden M. Pleissner Painting Award, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
1991 Thomas Fisher Award, American Society of Architectural Perspectivists, New York, New York
1990 William P. & Gertrude Schweitzer Painting Prize, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
1988 The Blanche E. Coleman Award for Painting
1988 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Grant
1988 The St. Botolph Foundation Grant in Painting
1987 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Lottery Grant for Painting
1986 The Blanche E. Coleman Award for Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Views from Above, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2019 The Essence of Light, St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts
2018 Homeward, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2018 Distilled Realities, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2017 Perspective and the Ephemeral, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, exhibition catalogue
2014 Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2014 Cityscapes by Ben Aronson, Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
2013 Cityscapes by Ben Aronson, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
2013 Ben Aronson, Ann Norton Sculpture Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida
2011 Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
2011 Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2010 Risk and Reward, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, exhibition catalogue, essay Donald Kuspit
2009 The Urban Signature, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 Urban Currents, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, exhibition catalogue, essay Donald Kuspit
2008 The Figure in Context, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, exhibition catalogue
2007 Explorations, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Ben Aronson: Recent Works, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, exhibition catalogue, essay Joanna Fink
2005 Ben Aronson: Recent Works, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, exhibition catalogue
2004 Painterly Visualizations, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California, exhibition catalogue, essay Gerald Nordland
2003 Ben Aronson, DFN Gallery, New York, New York
2002 Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2000 Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, California
1998 Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, California
1997 MB Modern, New York, New York
1996 Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1996 Jerry Solomon Gallery, Hollywood, California
1994 Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, Maine
2016 As We See It: The Collection of Gail and Ernst von Metzsch, New Britian Museum of American Art, New Britian, Connecticut
2016 Urban Banality, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
2015 New Acquisitions, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
2014 Selections from Fifty Years of Collecting, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
2012 What’s New: Recent Additions to the Collection, University of New Hampshire Art Museum, Durham, New Hampshire
2011 Aronson to Aronson: The Lineage of Expressionism, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
2011 A Sense of Place: Landscapes From Monet to Hockney, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, Nevada
2010 Changing Soils: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan
2010 ART in Embassies Exhibition, United States of America Embassy, Tunis, Tunisia
2009 People, Place, and Things: The Art of ARONSON, BABB, and SOTH, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida
2009 Urban Perspectives, Mark Gallery, Englewood, New Jersey
2009 On Paper, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2009 Summertime…, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2009 Winter Haiku, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2008 Contemporary Still Lifes, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
2008 Text and Textures: An Exhibition from the Permanent Collection, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2008 Beyond Representation, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 Master Prints, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
2007 Landscapes: Rural and Urban, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
2007 Anniversary Exhibition, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 Good Night Sun: Nocturnes, Storms, and Sunsets, George Billis Gallery, New York, New York
2007 Representation, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2007 Interiors, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
2006 The Figure in American Painting, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
2006 From Private Walls, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, Florida
2006 Celebrate Summer, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Cities Different, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2006 Winter Haiku, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Re-Presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
2005 Looking Back, Seeing Forward, Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Seventh Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California
2004 179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, New York
2004 Dualities, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004 Still Life and Streets, Hidell-Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2004 Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2003 The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, New York
2002 Form & Conscience: Figurative Art from Mid-Century to Present, Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, California
2002 Regional, Merrill Lynch Building Gallery, New York , New York
2000 Contemporary Portraits, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 The Aronson’s, Alter & Gil Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
1999 Altered Streets: Boston Painters Paint Boston, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1998 Meridian International Traveling Exhibition, sponsored by Exxon-Mobil, traveled to US, China, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa (through 2000)
1998 Town & Country, MB Modern, New York, New York
1998 Perspectives, MB Modern, New York, New York
1998 Urban Suburban, Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, California
1998 Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1997 Contemporary Figures, MB Modern, New York, New York
1997 The Distinct Still Life, Pepper Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1996 About American Realism: Part I, Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1995 Only in America, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1994 Contemporary Perspectives II, Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
1994 Interiors, Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
1992 167th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, New York
1992 National Convention Exhibition, American Institute of Architects, Boston, Massachusetts
1992 American Society of Architectural Perspectivists Traveling Exhibition, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1992 American Society of Architectural Perspectivists Traveling Exhibition, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1992 American Society of Architectural Perspectivists Traveling Exhibition, Mickelson Gallery, Washington DC
1991 American Society of Architectural Perspectivists Traveling Exhibition, American Society of Civil Engineers, Washington DC
1991 American Society of Architectural Perspectivists Traveling Exhibition, Urban Center of the Municipal Art Society, New York, New York
1991 Copley Society, Boston, Massachusetts
1990 165th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, New York
1988 DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1982 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1980 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
