Benjamin Bird is an English artist, based in London and the south east of England, working within an expanded field of photography incorporating amongst other methods sculpture and text.
His practice investigates the built environment, its relationships to interlinked ideas of history, politics, the perception of structures in society, and the spaces they are located in.
Bird holds a BA (hons) from the University for the Creative Arts and a Masters from the Royal College of Art. His work has been exhibited around the UK, and internationally including Germany, China and the Netherlands.
Benjamin is also a trustee of the Rebecca Vassie Trust, a charitable organisation supporting the art of long-form narrative photography, and promoting education in photography for both emerging professionals and the broader public.
Photo: Melanie Issaka
Selected C.V.
2019 - 2022 MA, Royal College of Art, London.
2005 - 2008 BA Hons, University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, Kent.
2024
Zygote, Culterim Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Fresh eyes, GUP Magazine.
HAUTE Photographie Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2023
TEN:th, Art Language Location, Quip & Curiosity, Cambridge.
Savouring Shadows, Copeland Gallery, London.
Our Paths will cross again, Parallel Institute, Hangzhou, China.
2022
Endpaper Talks, Parallel Institute, Hangzhou, China.
Royal College of Art Autumn Graduate Show, Battersea, London.
After the waiting room, Copeland Gallery, London.
Offprint London, Tate Modern, London.
Future Archive Phase 1-3, Folium Publishing, London, Editor: Rut Blees Luxemburg.
2021
A study of land and time, with Leah Carvell, LCP Project Space, Letchworth Garden City.
Correspondance: 4:104082 room 12, with Thomas Brown,Guillaume Ferrand and The Photographers Gallery, London.
2020
WIP show, RCA, Battersea, London.
Rotterdam Photography Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2019
Take Back Control, Crypt Gallery, London.
Uncertain states issue #30.
2018
Trees Remember too, B#Side gallery, Treviso, Italy.
Brexit Wounds: A One-Day Symposium on Cultural Responses to Leaving the EU, Facultyof Arts and Humanities Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.
Rûm III, Rathaus, Graz, Austria.
Open forum, Brighton Photo Biennial : A New Europe, University of Brighton.
2016
Brighton Photo Fringe, Brighton.
2015
Art Language Location, Cambridge.
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CONTACT
For any inquiries and more information please email: benjamin.bird (at)network.rca.ac.uk
All images © Benjamin Bird