Benjamin Freedman presently resides and works in Toronto, ON. Freedman completed his BFA in photographic studies at Ryerson University (Toronto) after studying Cinema, Video and Communications at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec. Freedman’s practice questions photography’s role in describing the world and its implications within a range of professional practices. While probing the relative truths and deceptions of photography, he purposely adopts visual vocabularies from genres such as science fiction and horror in an effort to create expanded documentary projects. He self-published his first photography book Observations of Foreign Objects in a Remote Town in 2015, and has exhibited extensively across the greater Toronto area – most recently at the Ryerson Image Centre, 8eleven Gallery and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. He has also shared his work internationally at the Aperture Foundation in New York City.
For more information or any questions, you can reach me at:
benafreedman@gmail.com
or
514.793.1807
To download a PDF of my CV, please click HERE
EDUCATION
2009-2014
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography,
Ryerson University, Toronto.
2008-2009
Cinema, Video, and Communications
Dawson College, CEGEP, Montreal.
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
OFORT, Ryerson Image Center, Toronto, Ontario, 2017
New Votives, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 2016
Lab Notes, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2015
The Pensive Spectator, Alliance Française Gallery, Toronto, 2013
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
C-Magazine Art Auction, Location TBD, Toronto, Spring 2019 (Upcoming)
Workhorse Show Pony, Access Gallery, Vancouver, 2018
Photorama, Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2018
Flash Forward, Division Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 2016
In Situ, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, Ontario , 2016
Black Mirror, Aperture Gallery, New York, New York, 2015
Lab Notes, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2015
Art Auction, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, 2015
SNAP! Live Auction, Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, 2014
Photorama, Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2014
89+ Marathon, SPBH, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2013
Nuit Blanche, Carlton Cinema, Toronto, 2013
Second Annual Emergent Artists Exhibition, O'Born Contemporary, Toronto, 2013
In Dreams, Studio 407, Toronto, 2012
Presidents Show, Jorgenson Hall, Toronto, 2012
Temporal Forms, I.M.A. Gallery, Toronto, 2012
Nostalgia for the Present, Forgetus Collective, Toronto, 2012
Maximum Exposure, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, 2012
PUBLICATIONS
Double Dot Magazine, Issue 4, Toronto, 2014
Carbon Paper, Issue 2, Toronto, 2014
Quill & Quire, Kenneth Oppel, Toronto, 2014
Go Home Print, Issue 2, Toronto, 2013
Function Magazine, Volume 13, Toronto, 2013
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
New Generation Photography Award, Canadian Photography Institute, 2018
Gibraltar Point Artist Residency, 2017
Flash Forward Winner, 2016
NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland Nov 2014-Jan 2015
CONTACT / Alliance Française Award, 2012-2013
Dean's List, Ryerson University, 2011-2013
Snap!Star, 2012
Robert S. Gooblar Scholarship, 2011
LECTURES/TALKS
Ryerson University, Toronto, 2017
The Assembly, The Rubber Factory, New York City, 2016
Walk the Talk, artist talk with Elisa Julia Gilmour, Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2014
New Modes of Image Making (Panel Discussion), Contact Photography Festival, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto,
ON (With Jimmy Limit, Aaron Friend Lettner, Lili Huston-Heterich, Vanessa Runions, Felix
Kalmenson, and Sam Cotter), 2013
Nostalgia for the Present, Forgetus Collective 163 Sterling Rd. Unit 29, Toronto, ON (With Kyle Broman,
Andrea Leigh Pelletier), 2011