Ben Aronson
Boston University, M.F.A. in Painting, 1982
Boston University, B.F.A. in Painting, 1980
Childe Hassam Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 2006
Academician Appointment, National Academy of Design, New York, 2005 Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National Academy of Design, New York, 2004
J. Sandford Saltus Gold Medal, National Academy of Design, New York, 2004
Ogden M. Pleissner Painting Awards, National Academy of Design, New York, 1992
Thomas Fisher Award, American Society of Architectural Perspectivists, New York, 1991
William P. & Gertrude Schweitzer Painting Prize, National Academy of Design, New York
Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Grant, 1989
IThe Blanche E. Coleman Award for Painting, 1988
The St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant in Painting, 1988
Artist in Residence, Beaver County Day School, 1985 - 1988
Sudbury Art Association, First Prize in Drawing, 1987
The Blanche E. Coleman Award for Painting, 1986
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2006 (catalogue)
Tiber de Nagy, New York, NY, 2005 (catalogue)
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004 (catalogue)
DFN Gallery, New York, NY, 2003
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2002
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2000
SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA, 1998
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA, 1998
MB Modern, New York, NY, 1997
Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, 1996
Jerry Solomon Gallery, Hollywood, CA, 1996
Louis Neman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, 1994
Nancy Lincoln Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1989
Julia-Saul Gallery, Sudbury, MA, 1987
Lane Gallery, Gordon College, Wenham, MA, 1986
Nancy Lincoln Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1983
"Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture", American Academy Of Arts and Letters, New York, 2006
"From Private Walls", Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, FL, 2006
"Re-Presenting Representation", Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, 2005
"Looking Back, Moving Forward", Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, 2004
"179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art", National Academy of Design, New York, 2004
"Realism Invitational," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2001-4
"Dualities", LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, 2004
"Summer Selections," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2004
"Still Life and Streets", Hidell-Brooks, Charlotte, NC, 2004
"The Burbs", DFN Gallery, New York, NY, 2003
"Regional", Merrill Lynch Building, New York, NY, 2002
"Form & Conscience: Figurative Art from Mid-Century to Present", Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA, 2002
"Contemporary Portraits," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2000
"Altered Streets: Boston Artists Paint Boston," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1999
"The Aronsons", Alter & Gil Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 1999
"Meridian International Traveling Exhibition", sponsored by Exxon-Mobil, US, China, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, 1998-1999
SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA, 1998
"Town & Country", MB Modern, New York, NY, 1998
"Perspectives", MB Modern, New York, NY, 1998
Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1998
"Urban Suburban", Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hoolywood, CA, 1998
"Contemporary Figures", MB Modern, New York, NY, 1997
"The Distinct Still Life", Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA, 1997
Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Hollywood, CA, 1997
Jerry Solomon Gallery, Hollywood, CA, 1996, 1997
"About American Realism: Part I", Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, 1995, 1996
"Only in America", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1995
"Contemporary Perspectives II", Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, 1993, 1994
"Interiors", Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, 1994
"167th Annual Exhibition", National Academy of Design, NYC, NY, 1992
"National Convention Exhibition", American Institute of Architects, Boston, MA, 1992
Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1992
Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA, 1992
Mickelson Gallery, Washington, DC, 1992
American Society of Civil Engineers, Washington, DC, 1991
Urban Center of the Municipal Art Society, New York, NY, 1991
"165th Annual Exhibition", National Academy of Design, New York, 1990
Copley Society, Boston, MA, 1991
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture park, Lincoln, MA, 1988
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, 1980, 1982
AOL Time Warner
Boston Public Library
Cabot Corporation
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Edgerton Germishausen & Greer, MA
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Hansen, Lind, Meyer, Inc., Orlando, FL
Houston's Restaurants, Phoenix, AZ
Leaf Systems, Inc., Southborough, MA
Lyman Allen Museum, New London, CT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Academy Museum, New Yor, NY
The New York Times
Reading Public Fine Art Museum, Reading, PA
San Jose Museum of Art
Sheraton Corporation
Sony Corporation
State of Rhode Island, State House, Providence, RI
United State of America, Federal Courthouse, Providence, RI
Universal Aluminum Corporation, MA
Walt Disney Corporation
Warner Bros.
Wellington Management Corporation
Woodshole Oceanographic Institute
Zaldastani Associates, Boston, MA
Daniel Grant, "Ben Aronson: Prolific, Popular, and Climbing in Price", ARTnewsletter, Nov. 8, 2005
"Voices Choices", The Villiage Voice, Oct. 5-11, 2005
Kenneth Baker, "Bubbling Over in Talent", ARTnews, September, 2004
Gail Leggio, "Exhibitions", American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2004
Mario Naves, "Conflicts of Interest", New York Observer, May 31, 2004
Daniel Kunitz, "Institutional Exhibitions", The New York Sun, May 6, 2004
Review, New York Magazine, May 10, 2004
Mark Rifkin, "National Academy's 179th Annual Enters Last Week", New York Resident, June 14, 2004
Margaret Lee, "Fifth Annual Realism Invitational", Artnews, Sept. 2003
Gregory Peterson, "What Motivates a Collector?", American Artist, Ap.2002
Joanna Fink, "Ben Aronson: New Paintings," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2000 (exhibition brochure)
Cate McQuaid, "Altered Streets: Boston Artists Paint Boston", Boston Globe, January 28, 1999
Margaret Combs, "Speaking in Images," Fay Magazine, 1995, p. 35 - 37 and 65 (illustrations)
ARTnews, October, 1997
ARTnews, February, 1996
The New York Times, March 12, 1995
Gerald Nordland, "Ben Aronson: California Visions," Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, 1994 (exhibition brochure)
Interiors and Sources, March/April, 1992
Ben Aronson with Bebe Raupe, "Ben Aronson: National Academy of Design," The Artist's Magazine, August, 1990
Architecture in Perspective VI, 1990
Review, Art New England, April, 1989
Jen Ehrenworth, ed., The Cabot Corporation Collection, 1985
Jack Kramer, Human Anatomy and Figure Drawing, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1984 (2nd edition)
University of Massachusetts, Nantucket Island, 2002, 2003
The Great River Art Institute, Walpole, NH, 2001
Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1997, 1996, 1995
Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1983-90
Boston University School of Fine Arts, 1981-82, 1980-81
