BIO
Ben Kinsley’s projects have ranged from choreographing a neighborhood intervention into Google Street View, directing surprise theatrical performances inside the homes of strangers, organizing a paranormal concert series, staging a royal protest, investigating feline utopia, collecting put-down jokes from around the world, and planting a buried treasure in the streets of Mexico City (yet to be found).

He has exhibited internationally at venues such as: Queens Museum, NYC; Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland; Bureau for Open Culture; Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh; Flux Space, Philadelphia; Katonah Museum of Art, NY; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence; La Galería de Comercio, Mexico City; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; and ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe.

Ben has been an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; Skaftfell Art Center, Iceland; Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Ireland; and Platform, Finland. His work has been featured on NPR, Associated Press, The Washington Post, Artforum.com, Wired.com, Rhizome.org, and Temporary Art Review, among others.

Kinsley is Assistant Professor of New Media/Time-Based Art in the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

CV
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SELECTED INTERVIEWS++
NPR Weekend Edition Interview
Surprisingly Awesome Podcast
Yale University Radio Interview
2015 Summer Institute for Visual Arts Lecture
MOCA Cleveland ArtCast Interview: Part 1 | Part 2
Danish Royal Protesters by Ben Kinsley & Jon Rubin for Lokal Global Plan
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Podcast
The Making of “Street With A View” from Mattress Factory Museum

WRITING
Zen of the Woods: a Foray into Art and Mushrooming on Temporary Art Review

PROJECT SITES
Janks Archive: janksarchive.org
The Yard: whatsintheyard.com

CONTACT
benkinsley(at)gmail(dot)com