Born 1982
Lives and works in London, UK.
Education
2008 – 2010
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2001 – 2004
BA Painting, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Under the Buttercross, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
2018
ArtCologne (Benjamin Senior & Patrick Hari), BolteLang, Cologne, Germany
Benjamin Senior, Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy
2016
Benjamin Senior, Bruce Haines, Mayfair, London, UK
Benjamin Senior, Frieze New York, solo presentation with James Fuentes, USA
2015
Parade, Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
The Upset, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
Enclosure, Grey Noise, Dubai, UAE
2013
Benjamin Senior, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
Benjamin Senior, Monica de Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy
Healing Fields, Art Basel Hong Kong, Discoveries, solo presentation with BolteLang, Hong Kong
Unnatural Order, James Fuentes LLC, New York, USA
2012
Artifice, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
SUNDAY Art Fair, solo presentation with BolteLang, London, UK
2011
Ella Kruglyanskaya and Benjamin Senior, James Fuentes LLC, New York, USA
2008
Regenesis, Jerwood Project Space, London, UK
Bestiary, Centre for Recent Drawing, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2019/20
Slow Painting, traveling group exhibition, Leeds Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth – the Levinsky Gallery, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, and Thurso Art Gallery, UK
2016
End Game, Turps Gallery, London, UK
2015
Inside, LISTE Art Fair with BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
Reliability of Recognition, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
Figuratively Speaking, Heike Moras, London, UK
2014
Fate of Forms, with Michele Toccas, East Side to the West Side, with James Fuentes LLC, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Suspicion curated by Dan Coombs, Jerwood Space, London, UK
BolteLang Stadtbiotop 2014, Eleonorenstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland
Miart, BolteLang, Milan, Italy, with Vanessa Billy, Daniel Gustav Cramer and Jill Spector
2012
Circles and Cycles, Boltelang at LISTE, Basel, with Bianca Brunner, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Patrick Hari and Benjamin Senior
2011
The Future Can Wait presents: Polemically Small, curated by Zavier Ellis, Edward Lucie-Smith, Max Presneill & Simon Rumley, Torrance Art Museum, USA
New Decade, Popup Gallery, London, UK
2010
The Marmite Prize for Painting, touring show, London, Coventry, Tameside, UK
Fade Away, Transition Gallery, London, UK
The Future Can Wait, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK
Polemically Small, Charlie Smith, London, UK
Young Gods, Charlie Smith London, UK
Show 2010, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Studio Voltaire Members Exhibition 2010, selected by Rebecca Warren and Jennifer Higgie), Studio Voltaire, London, UK
2009
Interim Show 2009 , Royal College of Art, London, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize , Jerwood Space, London, UK
2008
Marmite Prize for Painting, Studio 1.1, London, UK
2007
Emergency 3 Aspex, Portsmouth, UK
Disposable Fetish, The Nunnery, London, UK
2006
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London, UK
After Michelangelo, Centre for Recent Drawing, London, UK
Press & Publications
2015
Breathless, artist’s monograph, Anomie publishing
Soft Art, Rizzoli
2014
100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames & Hudson
2013
Benjamin Senior, GLOW ! Magazine, Mexico
Benjamin Senior, Kaleidoscope, issue 18, Summer 2013
Counterpoint Alice Cattaneo/Benjamin Senior, by Maria Chiara Valacchi, Flash Art, Italian, edition, nr 309, March – April, p. 28
2012
A Sunday l’arte torna ad essere dipinta, by Sara Dolfi Agostini, ArtEconomy 24, Il Sole 24 Ore, October 22
Taste for the anti-Frieze, by Rachel Spence, Collecting, Financial Times, October 11
SUNDAY Report: The Scrappy Satellite Matures, Proving a Beacon for Tastemakers, by Coline Milliard, www.artinfo.com, October 11
Ella Kruglyanskaya and Benjamin Senior, by Karen Rosenberg, Art In Review, The New York Times, July 21
Awards & Residencies
2011 – 2012
Kingsgate Workshops Trust Residency
2010
Gordon Luton Prize for Painting
2009
Shortlisted for Jerwood Drawing Prize
2007
Shortlisted for Aspex Awards
2006
Shortlisted for Jerwood Drawing Prize