Benjamin Armstrong

Born 1975, Melbourne, Victoria; lives and works in Melbourne. Benjamin Armstrong completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996. Notable recent projects have included Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006; NEW09, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2009; Walking Backwards to the Place I Come From, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 2010; A First Life Residency Project in Landscape, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2011; Conjurers, Tolarno Galleries, 2012; and Roundtable: The 9th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, 2012. Armstrong’s work was the subject of a major monograph, Benjamin Armstrong: Holding a Thread, published in 2010. He was awarded an Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2011.