Benji Whalen
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Claustrotopia, Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005
New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Fooled Again, Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004
New Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cover Me, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Evol, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1999
Love Love Love, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Odd Astra, Dirt Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997
Flawed, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
The Good with the Bad, Mogadishni, Aarhus, Denmark
Group Show, Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark
It's Gouache and Gouache Only, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Art Brussels 2008, Mogadishni, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
The Book of Lies, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
2006
Fernando Chieco, Neil Hamon and Benji Whalen, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Natural Selection, Microsoft Collection, Redmond, WA
The Next Doing, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Likeness, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Go Figure, Mogadishni, Aarhus, Denmark
2005
How Bad Do You Want It, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Summer Camp, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
It'll Cost You, Arken Contemporaries, New York, NY
The Book of Lies, Belgrade Art Center, Belgrade, Serbia
2004
Articles and Waves, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Dessins et des Autres, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Colored Pencil, K.S. Art, New York, NY
Dessins et des Autres II, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
So Sweet, Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003
Lust + Leisure, Galerie Voges + Partner, Frankfurt, Germany
Clementine @ Hallwalls, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Summer of Lust, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Funny Papers, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Musikshow, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX
The Book of Lies, Grunwald Center, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Where the Boys Are, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
Use Your Illusion, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Loss and Ardor, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2001
Beefcake/Cheesecake, Orange Co. Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
New Visions, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
August Confessions, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Matrix International, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Dia de Los Muertos, Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
Operating Systems, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2000
Parts, Goliath, Brooklyn, NY
The Standard Model: (Game Face), Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
California Small Work, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
1999
Memento Mori, Star 67, Brooklyn, New York
Return to Splendor, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Bay Area Awards Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1998
Nothing but Time, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
For the Birds, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Annual Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Sugar, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Website Featured Artist, Artists Space, New York, NY
1997
Introductions, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
All the Things You Are, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Me, Myself and I, Higbee Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Crystal Ball, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
MFA Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Countdown 2000, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
Dead Nature, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996
Guy, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA Field Days,
Cerulean Embankments, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
NAACP Show, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Luscious, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Art on Market Street Public Art Project, SF Art Commission, SF, CA
1995
Emotional Baggage, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
Obsession, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Annual Show, SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION / AWARDS
2002
Awarded Artadia grant
1999
Bay Area Award (Musee Miniscule) in visual art, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1997
Graduated with M.F.A. in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute
1996
Awarded Cadogan Scholarship by San Francisco Foundation
1991
Graduated summa cum laude, PBK, B.A. in English from Columbia College, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY