Benjamin Palethorn (b. 1994, Suffolk) lives and works in London.

He has exhibited at Tate Modern, Firstsite, Leeds Art Gallery, OHSH projects, V.O Curations among others.

He gained his BA from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds (2017). He went on to be a participant in the Zabludowicz Collection Masterclass (2020).

‘Painting is like a dream forming in your mind, you don’t know where you’re going to be taken next. That’s the power of art. The fertile ground where images are born and die, they come into reality but sometimes they’re ghosts, of a thought or a feeling’.




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EDUCATION
2020 Zabludowicz Collection Masterclass
2013 - 2017 BA Fine Art (with Industry Placement) University of Leeds

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 South Open 4, OHSH Projects, London
2023 Thin Red Lion at Hypha Studios, London
2022 The Crypt, Kings Cross, London
2021 VO Curations, Mayfair, London
2021 VO Curations, St James Park, London
2020 Feral Harvest, Asylum Studios, Suffolk
2017 Graduate Residency – The Art House, Wakefield
2017 So What of the Future - School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
2017 Warm Up – Art Hostel Leeds.
2017 Off-White – School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
2016 An Evening with isthisit? – Eva’s Place, Sibton Green, Suffolk
2016 Où Est La Piscine? - Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation, University of Leeds
2016 What is the Future of Art? - Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London
2016 British Art Show 8, Collaboration with Ciara Phillips - Leeds Art Gallery
2015 Firstsite Open Exhibition - Firstsite, Colchester
2015 Melt – hARTslane, London 2015 Way Out: Exit B - Enjoy Art Space, Leeds
2014 Leeds International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair - The Tetley, Leeds
2014 Basement - University of Leeds
2012 Anna Airy Award 2012 - University of Suffolk, Ipswich
2012 First Look - Ipswich Art Gallery, Colchester and Ipswich Museums

AWARDS
2017 Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire Award for ‘(Dead) Mutter’. (University of Leeds)
2012 Anna Airy Award 2012: Winner of 'Best work in a Variety of Media'. (University of Suffolk) 

RESIDENCIES
2017 Graduate Residency, The Art House Wakefield

TALKS 
2020 Zabludowicz Collection Masterclass

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Giuseppe Oliverio, Erik Kessels, Familiar Stranger, PhMuseum, 2020
Bob Bicknell-Knight, Isthisit? Issue 03, Isthisit, 2017


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