W. Benjamin Bray

CV

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS

2023 Nov - Plane-Spotting at the Tropicana: A Research-Based Art Practice - New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA
2023 Apr - An Anticline of Data - I've Been There - Assemblage Art Space, Boston, MA
2022 Sep - FPAC Open Studios Group Show - FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 May - World Memory : The Art of Data Visualization - Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Oct - 1000 Years - Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, MA
2018 Feb - Here Be Dragons - MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
2016 Jul - Art Meets Science - MDI Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
2016 Jun - Emancipation: how to make a work of glass that isn't glass - Corning, NY
2015 Nov - Stealing from the Real: Simulation and Sense-Making - Machines With Magnets, Providence, RI
2015 Oct - SXSW Eco - Austin, TX
2015 Sep - CSO X Cyberarts - Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 Aug - From Mountains to Sea - Art.Science.Gallery, Austin, TX
2015 Jul - Nuit Blanche Akiyoshidai - Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
2015 Jun - Curious Sound Objects Vol. III - The Space Between - Aeronaut Brewery, Somerville, MA
2015 Jun - Stealing from the Real: Simulation and Sense-Making - Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Oct - More Human - Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Jan - Bilocate - Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 Jun - The Foundry Equation - Cambridge, MA
2013 Jan - Septentrion: Exploring the Arctic Circle - Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2012 Nov - Present - Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Mar - Transformer - Axiom Gallery for New and Experimental Media, Boston, MA
2011 Oct - Mediating Place - Harbor Art Gallery, UMass - Boston, Boston, MA
2011 Feb - Fluid - Axiom Gallery for New and Experimental Media, Boston, MA
2010 Mar - Findings - Axiom Gallery for New and Experimental Media, Boston, MA
2009 Jun - How Is This Glass? Of Post-Glass Artists and Glass Guerillas - Corning, NY
2008 Aug - Departure - FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Nov - Collision X - Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA
2006 Jun - Paine Gallery - Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

PRESENTATIONS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS

2023 Apr - Digeo : Navigating Digital Geography - Assemblage Art Space, Boston, MA
2020 Feb - Democratizing Data Through Art: A Web-Based, User-Centric Approach to Water Quality Analysis and Visualization – Poster, 2020 AGU Ocean Sciences, San Diego, CA
2020 Feb - River Herring Telemetry Tracking and Data Visualization for Research, Management, Education, and Outreach – Oral, 2020 AGU Ocean Sciences, San Diego, CA
2018 Mar - PMOC - presentation - MIT Water Night, Cambridge, MA
2018 Feb - A Vitreous Approach to Public Oceanography - presentation - MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
2017 Sep - Plane-Spotting at the Tropicana: A Research-Based Art Practice - CESTEMER, Chicago, IL
2016 Sep - Purposeful Venturing - Visiting Artist Lecture - Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2015 Nov - Oceans+Art - A Situationist Approach - Presentation - Art Technology New England, Boston, MA
2015 Jun - Illuminating the Deep Ocean - Presentation - Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Jun - Stealing from the Real - Panel - Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Oct - More Human - Panel - Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Jan - Vermont Studio Center - Presentation - Johnson, VT
2013 Jan - Mapping the Polar Eternities - Presentation - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2012 Oct - Mapping the Polar Eternities - Presentation - Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 Oct - Expanding Tahiti - Presentation - Arctic Circle Residency, Raudfjorden, Svalbard
2011 Mar - Expanding Tahiti - Presentation - Axiom Gallery for New and Experimental Media, Boston, MA

RESIDENCIES / SCHOLARSHIPS / ASSISTANTSHIPS / GRANTS

2017 May - Critic - Dept. of Glass - Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2017 Feb - Visiting Artist - Dept. Of Glass - Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2016 Sep - Visiting Artist - Dept. Of Glass - Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2016 Jan - Artist Grant - Artist's Resource Trust
2014 May - Artist Grant - MIT Arts Council
2014 Mar - Vermont Studio Center Residency - Johnson, VT
2014 Mar - Artist Grant - Vermont Studio Center
2011 Sep - The Arctic Circle Residency - Svalbard, Norway
2011 May - Artist Grant - MIT Arts Council
2005 Jun - General Scholarship - Studio at Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY
1995 Aug - Research Assistantship - Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA

REVIEWS AND PRESS

2018 Dec - Boston Hassle, review of 1000 Years
2015 Jun - Boston Globe, The Art of Provocation
2014 Apr - Vermont Studio Center, feature
2013 Sep - Colortek Lab, feature
2013 Apr - Radio Boston, feature
2013 Feb - Union Art Gallery, feature
2012 Oct - The Arts Fuse, COLLISION18:present - The Expanding Range of Cyberarts
2011 Mar - Jamaica Plain Patch, Put Some Art into Your Commute With "Fluid"
2008 Aug - The Weekly Dig, DEPARTURE: The Peanuts Ain't Free These Days
2006 Aug - Boston Magazine, South End Open Studios: Hot Picks

EDUCATION

1997 Dec - The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA - MS in Meteorology (Oceanography emphasis)
1995 May - Texas A&M University, College Station, TX - BS in Meteorology
2005 to present - Massachusetts College of Art, Boston University, Corning Museum of Glass, Haystack Mountain School of Craft

WORK EXPERIENCE

Geospatial Applications Developer - MIT Sea Grant, Jul 2005 to present - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Assistant Director - ELMO Project, Aug 2001 to July 2005 - Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Research Assistant - Department of Geosciences, Jan 1996 to Sept 1997 - The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Internal Communications and Scheduling Coordinator - May 1995 to Aug 1995 - International Space University, Stockholm, Sweden

HONORS

Chi Epsilon Pi (National Atmospheric Sciences Honor Society)