Researching Ben Vida
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The name Ben means "Son" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Ben Vida
Ben Vida (born 1974) lives and works in New York. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Bard College. As an artist and composer, he has been an active member of the international experimental music community for two decades with a long list of collaborators, projects and releases to his credit.
BiographyVida has performed as a musician in several bands since the mid 1990s. He co-founded the minimalist quartet Town & Country and continued to perform as a guitarist and trumpeter for the band. Vida was also a member of Pillow and Terminal 4 and recorded and performed solo as Bird Show and in the Drag City band Singer.
In addition to his musical endeavors, Vida has exhibited his work as a contemporary artist in recent years. His work has been performed and presented in New York at the Guggenheim, Audio Visual Arts, and The Artist’s Institute; in London at The Institute of Contemporary Art and The Royal Festival Hall as part of the Meltdown Festival; in Chicago at The Museum of Contemporary Art; and other locations such as the Sydney Opera House, Leap Gallery, Berlin, and Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna.
Other solo and two-person exhibitions include:
2016
[Smile on.]. . . [Pause.]. . . [Smile off.], Lisa Cooley, New York
2015
Microramp Boombox, with Jeff DeGolier, Waterfront Gallery, Kingston, New YorkSlipping Control (West), 356 S Mission Rd, Los Angeles, California
2014
Damaged Particulates (Undersong Edition), Unsound NYC, Experimental Intermedia, New York. Travelled to: Cricoteka Museum, Kraków, Poland [2014]; Leap Gallery, Berlin, Germany [2014]
2013
Bloopers: #0, Performa Biennial, New YorkMetal Fatigue Music with Jeff DeGolier, NADA Fair Miami special project, Miami Beach, FloridaSlipping Control, Audio Visual Arts, New York
2012
hy.morf.eld, Artist’s Institute, New York
Vida has been the recipient of several awards including the ISSUE Project Room Artist-in-Residency Commission; the Museu d’ Art Contemporani de Barcelona “Composing with Process” Exclusive Works Commission; Unsound Festival New Works Commission and a Swedish Arts Committee Travel Grant. Recent residencies include EMS Studios, Stockholm; EMPAC, Troy and the Clocktower, Manhattan.
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