SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016: Untilted, Valentine Gallery, Queens, NY (with David Scher)
2011: New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2008: Music for My Funeral, Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007: Benji Whalen: Claustrotopia, Mogadishni, Copenhegan, Denmark
2005: Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Fooled Again, Leisure Club 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, Los Angeles, CA
1997: Flawed, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019: In A Flash, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2018: UNCONSCIOUS RATIONALE, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies, Hyperallergic.com
2017: Supreme Friction, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2016: The Book of Lies, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
The Book of Lies, Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2015: Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2013: The Goddess, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2011: Status: Somewhere between position and condition, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010: To the Road Less Travelled – Wishing You Love and Happiness and Curiosity Forever, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009: Low Blow, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Dritto e Rovescio, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
A Thin Slice, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
Compass in Hand: Selections from the Rothschild Collection, MOMA, New York, NY
2008: Is It a Fiber Show?, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Good with the Bad, Mogadishni AAR, Copenhagen, Denmark
Group Show, Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gouache and Gouache Only, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
Art Brussels 2008, Mogadishni, Brussels, Belgium
Art Chicago 2008, Gallery Paule Anglim, Chicago, IL
2007: The Book of Lies III, 18th St. Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
2006: Go Figure, Mogadishni, Aarhus, Denmark
The Next Doing, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Fernando Chieco, Neil Hamon and Benji Whalen, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Natural Selection, Microsoft Collection, Redmond, WA
Likeness, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
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, Leisure Club 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, Vedanta 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
Bon Voyage Vernissage, Studio 54, Marin, 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, Gr. 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 1997, 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, Gt. Barr., 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 ArtCouncil (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, Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia College, NY, NY, with B.A. in English
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1997, Kenneth Baker, “Newcomers at Anglim,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 24
1997, Maria Porges, “Michael Thurston and Benji Whalen,” Artpapers, September/October
1997, Benny Shaboy, “An Interview with Benji Whalen,” Studionotes, December
1999, Leah Ollman, “Star Sightings,” Los Angeles Times, January 22
2001, Ilana Stanger, “Interview with Benji Whalen,” TheArtBiz.com, August
2002, Laurie Simmons, “Top 10,” Artforum, February
2002, Kevin Williams, “Use Your Illusion,” Chicago Tribune, August 2
2002, Roberta Smith, “Benji Whalen,” New York Times, December 13
2002, Laura Janku, “Leo Bersamina and Benji Whalen,” Flavorpill, December 5
2003, New American Paintings #43
2003, Christopher Schutte, “Saisonstart,” Frankfurter Allgemeine, September 9
2004, “Musikshow and Rawkshow,” Voices of Art, January 14
2006, “Galleria Leme exibe o corpo humano…,” Globo.com, November 8
2006, Kristian Handberg, “Anmeldelse: Go Figure,” Aarhus.nu, December 6
2007, Karen Torp-Pederson, “En Hard Omgang Kluddermoor,” 24Timer, Copenhagen,
October 18
2007, Joel Githrow, “Pricked at the Museum of Art and Design,” Flavorpill, New York, November 3
2008, Eric Meistrup, “The Good with the Bad,” Kunstavisen, January 3
2008, Cindi Di Marzo, “Extreme Embroidery: Art and Craft Meet on the Verge” Studio International, January 9
2008, Contemporary Textiles: The Fabric of Fine Art, Bradley Quinn, Black Dog Publishing, London
2008, “Sew Controversial,” New York Sun, March 27
2008, Torben Sangild, ‘Whalen udstiller begraveleskunst,” iBYEN.dk, November 10
2008, Pernille Rom Bruun, “Benji Whalen.” Kunsten.nu, November 10
2009, Francesca Rigotti, “Dritto Rovescio,” Ticino Sette, March 7
2009, Pernille Rom Bruun, Contemporary, Living,” Kunsten.nu, March 24
2010, Trine Ross, “Underdommelige kunstnere hylder nysgerrigheden,” iBYEN.dk, January 13
2010, Future Textiles, Bradley Quinn, Berg Publsihers, London
2011, Romain Dauriac, “Interview with Benji Whalen,” Clark, Paris, March