Ben Hartley | b.1997 | Lives and works in Bristol

Education

• 2026 - current - MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London

• 2024 - 2026 - School of the Damned

• 2016 - 2019 - BA (Hons) Art & Visual Culture, University of the West of England

Solo & Duo exhibitions

• 2026 - With every sinew, The Launderette, Bristol (with Cassie Ireland)

• 2026 - Through yellow light, Exeter Phoenix

• 2025 - Ritual & Remains, Back Lane West, Redruth

• 2024 - Parts of a whole, KIT FORM, Bristol

Selected Group exhibitions 

• 2026 - In Conjuncture, FILET Space, London

• 2025 - Lammas: Our inheritance is corn, Spike Island Studios, Bristol

• 2025 - Condition Report, Spike Island Studios, Bristol

• 2025 - Making meaning, Turf Projects, Croydon

• 2024 - Bog Idol, KIT FORM, Bristol

• 2024 - Summer Camp, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

• 2024 - Lore, Strange Brew, Bristol

• 2023 - Out of place artefacts, St Anne's House, Bristol

• 2023 - Out of place artefacts, Elysium Gallery,  Swansea

• 2022 - Unstable Ground, Studio KIND, Braunton

• 2022 - All that you touch you change, all that you touch changes you, Chisenhale Studios, London

• 2020 - TAPS Now, Kosar Contemporary, Bristol

Awards & Grants 

• 2025 - Bursary, Gane Trust

• 2024 - Originators Fund, Bristol City Council Cultural Investment Fund

• 2022 - Research and Development Bursary, West of England Visual Arts Alliance

Residencies 

• 2025 - Back Lane West, Redruth

• 2019 - Remember Me, Digital Artist Residency

Workshops 

• 2024 - Fertility Dolls, Bog Idol, KIT FORM 

• 2023 - I am making art: Shrines & Reliquaries, for Ofelia Rodriguez: Talking in Dreams, Spike Island

Publications

• 2024 - Lore, Doozy Magazine Issue #2

• 2023 - ROAM Anthology, Issue #1

• 2019 - RUNG Magazine, Issue #2