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Ben Kinsley is an interdisciplinary artist working in sound, video, and social/contextual practice. His projects have ranged from choreographing a neighborhood intervention into Google Street View, directing surprise theatrical performances inside the homes of strangers, staging a royal protest, collecting put-down jokes from around the world, and hosting a lecture series in an aspen grove.

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; 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. His work has been featured on NPR, Associated Press, The Washington Post, Artforum.com, Wired.com, Rhizome.org, and Hyperallergic, among others.

Ben is also an avid mushroom hunter and amateur mycologist. He is a past president and current board member of the Pikes Peak Mycological Society and has led forays with PPMS, the North American Mycological Association (NAMA), and the Telluride Mushroom Festival. Kinsley and his artist team are five-time winners in the Telluride Mushroom Festival costume contest, and images of their mushroom costumes have been featured in Vogue, Travel + Leisure, and Mushroom People Magazine.

• M.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University
• B.F.A. Cleveland Institute of Art
• Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

Lower Division

• VA 1030: Digital Foundations
• VA 2100: Digital Art & Design
• VAPA 1100: Art in Time and Space

Upper Division

• VA 3200: Video Art
• VA 3300: Animation
• VAPA 3900: Situations - Contemporary Art in Public Space

Tree Talks: Populus Tremuloides, 2023, sound, lathe cut vinyl record, publication (edition of 50)