Benjamin Freedman

Artist presently living and working in Toronto, Canada.

ben.a.freedman@gmail.com

(514) 793-1807

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About

Benjamin Freedman is an artist whose practice spans multiple mediums including photography, video and computer generated imagery with an interest in the restorative potential of photographic research and play.

He received his Masters degree in Photography at ECAL (Lausanne) in 2023 and his a bachelor’s degree in photography at the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in 2013. In 2025 he published his first book, Positive Illusions with MACK and SPBH Editions. He has exhibited extensively across the greater Toronto area and internationally at the Aperture Foundation in New York City, Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Foto-Undustria Biennale in Bologna and in the Riga Photography Biennale in Latvia. He recently presented work at the Images Vevey Biennale, Vontobel in Zurich, Switzerland and at Ptolemy Gallery in New York City.

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EDUCATION

2021-2023

Master of Design, Photography, École cantonal d’art Lausanne (Écal), Lausanne.

2009-2013

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto.

IN PRINT

Dear Dave, Issue #39, January - May 2026

Bloomberg Businessweek, November 2025

PhotoEd, Meld Issue, #76, 2025

Harpers Bazaar Italy, CLASH!, Issue 18, 2025

FOAM Magazine, Missing Mirror, Issue #66, 2024

FRAME Magazine, Generation Generative, Issue 157, 2024

Masonneuve Magazine, The Technology Issue, Summer 2023

T, Le magazine du Temps, 26 aout 2023

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Surface Imperfect, Ptolemy World, New York, 2025

Positive Illusions, Vontobel, Zurich, Switzerland, 2024

Positive Illusions, Images Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland, 2024

A Breaking Point, A Delicate Balancing Act, RIXC Gallery, Riga, Latvia, 2024

Facades, Gallery 64, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, 2023

Jake, VRAL - Milan Machinima Festival, Milan, Italy, 2023

Exquisite Corpse, Pumice Raft, Toronto, Ontario, 2020

OFORT, Ryerson Image Center, Toronto, Ontario, 2017

New Votives, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 2016

Lab Notes, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2015

Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, 2014

Alliance Française Gallery, Toronto, 2013

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Automated Photography, Foto/Industria, Milan, 2023

Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Lausanne, 2023

MetaContraVerse, GESTURE Paris, Paris, 2022

Won Syat, Platform L, Seoul, 2022

The Final Frontier, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Summer 2019

C-Magazine Art Auction, Location TBD, Toronto, Spring 2019

Workhorse Show Pony, Access Gallery, Vancouver, 2018

Photorama, Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2018

Flash Forward, Division Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 2016

In Situ, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, Ontario , 2016

Black Mirror, Aperture Gallery, New York, New York, 2015

89+ Marathon, SPBH, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2013

Nuit Blanche, Carlton Cinema, Toronto, 2013

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

Long List - New Generation Photography Award, Canadian Photography Institute, 2018

Gibraltar Point Artist Residency, 2017

Flash Forward Winner, 2016

NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland Nov 2014-Jan 2015

CONTACT / Alliance Française Award, 2012-2013

Dean's List, Ryerson University, 2011-2013

Snap!Star, 2012

Robert S. Gooblar Scholarship, 2011

LECTURES/TALKS

Ryerson University, Toronto, 2017

The Assembly, The Rubber Factory, New York City, 2016

Walk the Talk, artist talk with Elisa Julia Gilmour, Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2014

New Modes of Image Making (Panel Discussion), Contact Photography Festival, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto,

ON (With Jimmy Limit, Aaron Friend Lettner, Lili Huston-Heterich, Vanessa Runions, Felix Kalmenson, and Sam Cotter), 2013

Nostalgia for the Present, Forgetus Collective 163 Sterling Rd. Unit 29, Toronto, ON (With Kyle Broman, Andrea Leigh Pelletier), 2011