BEN ARONSON
BORN
1958 Boston, MA
EDUCATION
1980-82
MFA, Boston University
1976-80
BFA, Boston University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2008
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2005
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2000
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1999
Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
1998
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA
1997
MB Modern, New York, NY
1996
Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Jerry Solomon Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1994
Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
1989
The Nancy Lincoln Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA
1987
Julia-Saul Gallery, Sudbury, MA
1986
Lane Gallery, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
People, Places & Things: The Art of ARONSON, BABB, and SOTH, Naples Museum of Art,
Naples, FL
2009
On Paper, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summertime…, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Urban Perspectives, Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ
Winter Haiku, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
Contemporary Still Lifes, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Text and Texture: An Exhibition of Work from the Permanent Collection, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN
Beyond Representation, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2007
Anniversary Exhibition, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Master Prints, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 2007
Landscapes: Rural and Urban Realities, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Representation, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Interiors, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpure, American Academy and National Institute of
Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Celebrate Summer, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Winter Haiku, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cities Different, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
From Private Walls, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, FL
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2005
Re-Presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Looking Back, Seeing Forward, Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
Seventh Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Looking Back, Moving Forward, Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Still Lifes and Streets, Hidell-Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Dualities, Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of
Design, New York, NY
2003
Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Regional, Merill Lynch Building Gallery, New York, NY
Form & Conscience: Figurative Art from Mid-Century to Present, Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
2001
Contemporary Portraits, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA {through 2007}
Spheris Gallery, NH, New York, NY
1991-01
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1999
The Aronsons, Alter & Gil Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Altered Streets: Boston Artists Paint Boston, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1998-99
Meridian International Traveling Exhibition, catalog, Exxon-Mobil, US, China, Pakistan, Iran,
Israel, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa
1998
Town and Country, MB Modern, New York, NY
Perspectives, MB Modern, New York, NY
Urban Suburban, Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA
1997
Contemporary Figures, MB Modern, New York, NY
The Distinct Still Life, Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA
1997 - 1996
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Jerry Solomon Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1995
About American Realism: Part I, Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Only in America, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994
Interiors, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
Contemporary Perspectives II, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
1992
167th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
National Convention Exhibition, American Institute of Architects, Boston, MA
Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mickelson Gallery, Washington, DC
1991
The Urban Center of the Municipal Art Society, New York, NY
American Society of Civil Engineers, Washington, DC
1990
165th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
The Copley Society, Boston, MA
1988 The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2009
James Foritano, ArtScope Magazine, May/June.
2008
Mullarkey, Maureen. “Capturing a Scene, Minus the Camera.” The New York Sun, April 10.
Kuspit, Donald. Ben Aronson: Urbane Paintings, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New
York, April (exhibition catalogue).
Rifkin, Mark. “Review: Ben Aronson, Urban Currents.” This Week in New York April 30.
Baker, R.C. “Review: Ben Aronson.” The Village Voice, April 29.
2007
Feinstein, Lea. “Reviews: National.” ARTnews, Summer.
Cooper, James F. “Contemporary Realism, The View form San Francisco.” American Arts
Quarterly, Fall.
2006
Grant, Daniel. “Ben Aronson: Urban Geometries”, American Artist, June.
O’Hern, John. “Secret Visions”, American Art Collector, June.
2005
Grant, Daniel. “Ben Aronson: Prolific, Popular and Climbing in Price”, The
ARTnewsletter, Vol. 21, No. 8, November 8.
Baker, R.C. Voice Choices. Short List. The Village Voice, October 5 -11
2004
Baker, Kenneth. “Bubbling Over in Talent.” ARTnews, September
Leggio, Gail. “Exhibitions.” American Arts Quarterly, Summer
Naves, Mario. “Conflicts of Interest.” New York Observer, May 31
Nordland, Gerald. Ben Aronson: Painterly Visualizations. San Francisco, CA
Jenkins Johnson Gallery (exhibition catalogue).
Kunitz, Daniel. “Institutional Exhibitionism.” The New York Sun, May 6
Review, “New York Magazine”, May 10
Rifkin, Mark. “National Academy’s 179th Annual Enters Last Week.” New York
Resident, June 14
2003
Lee, Margaret. “Fifth Annual Realism International”, ARTnews, September
2002
Peterson, Gregory. “What Motivates a Collector?” American Artist, April 2000
Fink, Joanna. Ben Aronson: New Paintings, exhibition brochure, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1999
McQuaid, Cate “Altered Streets: Boston Artists Paint Boston”, The Boston Globe, January 28
1997
ARTnews, illus., October
1996
ARTnews, illus., February
1995
The New York Times, March 12
1994
Nordland, Gerald. Ben Aronson: California Visions, exhibition catalog, Louis Newman Galleries,
Beverly Hills, CA
1991
Rauper, Bebe. “Ben Aronson: National Academy of Design”, The Artist’s Magazine, August
“Review,“ Architecture in Perspective VI
1989
Review, Art in New England, April
1985
Ehrenworth, Jan, ed. The Cabot Corporation Collection
1984
Kramer, Jack, “Human Anatomy and Figure Drawing”, Van Nostrand Reinhold CO, (2nd edition)
AWARDS
2006
Childe Hassam Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2005
Academician Appointment, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2004
The Benjamin Altman Painting Prize, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
J. Sanford Saltus Gold Medal for Painting, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1992
Ogden M. Pleisser Award, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1991
Thomas Fisher Award, American Society of Architectural Perspectives, New York, NY
1990
William P. & Gertrude Schweitzer Painting Prize, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1989
Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Grant
1988, 1996
The Balnche E. Coleman Award for Painting
1987
Massachusetts Lottery Grant for Painting
First Prize in Drawing, Sudbury Art Association
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
AOL Time Warner, NY
Akron Art Museum, OH
Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA
Boston Public Library, Prints & Drawings Collection, MA
Boston University, MA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Cabot Corporation, MA
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO
Colorado Springs Museum of American Art, CO
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
Currier Museum, Manchester, NH
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Dayton Art Institute, OH
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
deYoung Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Dodge & Cox, CA
Edgerton Gerrnishauser & Greer, MA
Flint Institute of Arts, MI
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Hansen, Lind, Meyer Inc., Orlando, FL
Houston’s, Phoenix, AZ
Leaf Systems, Inc., Orlando, FL
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Mobile Museum of Art, AL
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Naples Museum of Art, FL
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
The New York Times, New York, NY
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME
Orlando Museum of Art, FL
Palm Springs Art Museum, CA
Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, WI
Reading Public Fine Art Museum, PA
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
San Diego Museum of Art, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Sheraton Corporation, NY
Sony Corporation, CA
State of Rhode Island, Statehouse, Providence, RI
Suzhou Museum, Jiangsu Province, China
Tampa Museum of Art, FL
United States of America Federal Courthouse, Providence, RI
Universal Aluminum Corporation
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Vero Beach Museum of Art, FL
Vieques Museum of Art and History, PR
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Walt Disney Corporation, CA
Warner Brothers Corporation, CA
The Wellington Trust Collection, Boston, MA
Woodshole Oceanographic Institute, MA
Zaldastani Associates, Boston, MA