Recent Press/ External Links for Work

Please reach out to me
@ benjamin.rdg@gmail.com or @benrossdavis
for any questions or feature work.

Press 
2024-04 Empathy is a Dicey Practice, Geoffrey Mak by Liara Roux for Cultured Mag
2024-04 Moving as Thing at Wesleyan University
2024-04 From Christ to Key (and back again), Geoffrey Mak’s Mean Boys by Paul Johnathan for Plaster Magazine
2024-02 The Paris Review for Geoffrey Mak’s My Friend Ellis
2023-10 Electronic Groove on Massimiliano Pagliara Album Art
2023-10 New Yorker Magazine for Geoffrey Mak’s The UnHoly Son
2023-10 Massimiliano Pagliara Album Art for All The VCOS You Can Eat
2023-10 Bobby Anspach Memorial Performance
2023-10 NYQZF 2023
2022-10 Kaje World: Back To School Performances
2022-10 Miriam Gallery Chatroom with Precog Mag
2020-9 Community Bread: Visuals for CEM for Glits Inc. 
2019-03 Bushwick Daily: Queer Bushwick Artist Exhibits at Leslie-Lohman Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art in SoHo by Savannah Camastro

2019-03 NY Art Beat
2019-03 Artforum

2019-02 Endosymbiosis at Leslie Lohmann Sculpture, Illustration, Photography, Performance
2018-11 Going Beyond at Kunstraum LLC Photography
2018-07 Alex Baczynski-Jenkins at Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw for Contemporary Cruising Photography
2018-06 Motherlode Audio/Photos for Luxury Escapism
2018-06 Printed Matter Nastic Movements Illustration
2018-05 Printed Matter Thr0mb0 Sculpture, Illustration, Photography, Performance, Writing
2017-10 Pratt News Augmented Reality
2017-10 Alt-Citizen
2017-11 Out Magazine Audio
2017-9 Eye Chart Book by William Germano
2017-7 HyperAllergic Performance Work
2017-7 The Clemente Digital Art/Print
2017-7 Hartbeats Audio Work
2016-4 I-D Vice Mx Artist Profile/Audio Work
2016-4 Alt-Citizen Audio Work
2015-10- Printed Matter Creeps Annual
2015-9  Posture Magazine Photography
2015-9 Huffington Post Photography

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2024

September 2024
New York Queer Zine Fair
4 Publications- Illustration, Painting, 3D, Photography
Exhibition at BGSQD inside the Center
New York City

April 2024
Mean Boys by Geoffrey Mak
Photography, Cover Art

International Distribution by Bloomsbury Press

April 2024
Moving as Thing
Performance Lecture, Intermedia, Video
Wesleyan University 
Middletown, CT

January-December 2024
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Arts and Design
Queens College of Art and Design
Queens, NY

January-December 2024
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Arts and Design
Baruch College of Art
New York City, NY

2023
November 2023
Bobby Anspach Memorial
Installation and Performance
Exhibition at Studio 3X, 62 18th St
Brooklyn, NY

October 2023
Massimiliano Pagliara Album Art for All The VCOS You Can Eat
Painting, 3D Sculpture, Intermedia 
International Distribution

October 2023
Bobby Anspach Memorial
Installation and Performance
Exhibition at Studio 3X, 62 18th St
Brooklyn, NY

October 2023
New York Queer Zine Fair
6 Publications- Illustration, Painting, 3D, Photography
Exhibition at BGSQD inside the Center
New York City

August-December 2023
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Arts and Design
Baruch College of Art
New York City, NY

April 2023
Apt. 404 with Hanna Schaich
Painting
Exhibition in McKibbin Lofts
Brooklyn, NY

January-December 2023
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Arts and Design
Queens College of Art and Design
Queens, NY

2022
October 2022
In Arcadia Ego collaboration with Geoff Mak
Performance, Sculpture
Exhibition at Kaje World (Brooklyn)

June 2022
Sensual Loyalty show with Hanna Schaich 
Paintings
Exhibition at Backhaus Projects, (Berlin)

June 2022
It’s A Mad Mad World
3D Prints, Paintings
Curated by Rob Hugh Rosen
Exhibition at Leslie Lohmann, (New York City)

December
Artist Talk: A Magazine Show
Miriam Gallery
Curated by Precog Magazine
Brooklyn, NY

January-December
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Arts and Design
Queens College of Art and Design
Queens, NY

2021
December
Artist Talk: A Magazine Show
Miriam Gallery
Curated by Precog Magazine
Brooklyn, NY

October-November
Movement Sculptures/Wearables
Bubble Orchestra at NARS Foundation
Curated by Precog Magazine
Brooklyn, NY

January-December
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Arts and Design
Queens College of Art and Design
Queens, NY

2020
September
Community Bread x CEM to Benefit Glits Inc.
3D Visuals for sound by CEM
Digital, Global

January-December
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Arts
Queens College of Art
Queens, NY

2019
September
Precog Issue 5
Hydroponic Plants
Available at Precog Magazine’s website, Artbook PS1, Printed Matter, and other locations
New York City, NY

May
Loops, Ladders, Reticulations
Original Audio and Sound Design for Choreography by Raziman Sarbini
Performed at Jack Crystal Theater
New York City, NY

February-March
Solo Show: Illustration, Video, Movement, Photography, Sculpture, Publications
Endosymbiosis at Leslie Lohmann
Curated by Noam Parness and Daniel J. Sander
New York City, NY

2018 
November
Group Show
Going Beyond at Kunstraum LLC
Curated by Hanna Schaich and Lena Marie Emrich
Brooklyn, NY

June
Book 
Nastic Movements
Sold at Printed Matter NY, Motto Berlin

May
Book
Thr0mb0
Sold at Printed Matter NY, Motto Berlin

2017
May- October
Augmented Reality
LibrARy at Pratt Library
Brooklyn, NY

July 
Group Show- Night Shift
LES Gallery, Clemente Center
New York City, NY

May
Performance
Felix Gonzalez Torres at David Zwirner
New York City, NY

February
Group Exhibition
Queer Threads Crafting Identity
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA

2016
January
Book (Contributor)
CREEPS Annual Book
Sold at Printed Matter, NY

CREEPS Collective 
Group Show at IDIO Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

2015
March
Group Show
Trans*ience at Moma Ps1 Pop Up Shop
in conjunction with AllGold

2014
May
Group Show
SYNDICATE: What? at Brooklyn Fire Proof
Curated by Sierra Siemer