Biography
Benjamin Hunt was born in Boise, Idaho in 1996 and is a Cornish College of the Arts BFA Graduate. He is an artist that uses healing, predictions, resolutions, and meditation as a vision of field. His paintings are reflections of time and moods inside of evolving environments. Representations of visual texture and patterns emotionally convey graphic structures of fauna throughout his work. He has shown In the International Contemporary Art fair in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, The Van Gogh Art Gallery in Madrid, Spain and Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington.
Artist Statement
I express my identity as an Artist by painting and drawing to change the reality of my existence. I contemplate ideas of my culture through my work, linking death and orientation together by multimedia discipline through textiles, collage, paint, poetry and drawing. My paintings reconstruct the purpose of repurposed materials creating a “second life” of an unanticipated outcome. I arrange sacred objects to create an entryway to dimensions where I can discuss sensitive desires and obstacles. I use the symbolism of these objects to discuss my ideas of beauty and its relationship to visual and physical touch. My work is biographical, a self portraiture of abstract and distinct painting styles referencing the human body.
CV
2022
Abstract, Initial Point Gallery, Meridian, ID
Artfort, Treefort Music Fest, Boise, ID
Doors and Windows, Vineyard Arts, Boise, ID
2021
Small Works Show, Surel’s Place, Boise, ID
Best of BOSCO, Riverside Hotel, Boise, ID
Real Love, The Hub Gallery, Meridian, ID
Don't Take Wild Things Home, Joe Bar Cafe, Seattle, WA
Somewhere Between Siberia and Japan, Flying M, Boise, ID
2020
Collective Art Show, Van Gogh Gallery, Madrid Spain
International Contemporary Art Fair, Lux Expo, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
MASK PARADE, MoM, Seattle, WA
Blooming Hearts, Jump, Boise, ID
2019
While Supplies Last Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Big Spirit, Edmonds Art Walk, Edmonds, WA
Screen Printing Party, Party Hat Gallery, Seattle, WA
Forever Again, Specialist Gallery, Seattle, WA
Cornish at Fred Hutch, Fred Hutch, Seattle, WA
Painted Psyche, Belltown Art Walk, Seattle, WA
Alumni Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA
Double Fantasy, Cornish College of the Arts BFA Graduate
2018
Mood Flowers, Studio e, Curated by Anthony White, Seattle, WA
Cloud of Smoke, Studio Current, Seattle, WA
While Supplies Last, Mount Analogue, Seattle, WA
Through Multiple Vessels, Cornish College of the Arts, L Space, Seattle, WA
2017
Incidental Eraser, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Print Show, Joe Bar Cafe, Seattle, WA
2015
Alice at the Gates of Dawn, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Boise High Art Show, Boise High School, Boise, ID
Ap Concentration, The Crux, Boise, ID
Awards
BOSCO Emerging Member, 2021
Cornish College of the Arts, Art Merit Scholarship, 2015
Artist of the Year, Timberline High School, 2014
Scholastic Arts and Writing, Silver Medal, 2014
Auctions
Boise Weekly Cover Auctions, 2021
Publications
Boise Weekly, Volume 30, Issue 15, Cover
Boise Weekly, Volume 29, Issue 38. pg 12
Boise Weekly, Volume 29, Issue 37 Cover
Cornish BFA Catalogue 2019
Valley Visions, 2013/14/15
Residencies
Cornish Instagram Residency, 2019, Seattle, WA
Summer at Cornish, Art Intensive, 2014, Seattle, WA
Permanent Collections
Timberline High School
