About
Ben is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer living in
Toronto, Canada. Through his work, he seeks to understand the relationship
between place and identity through compassionate explorations of grief, alienation,
and neurodivergence. His art employs multiple approaches, while thematically
exploring the role of narrative in the construction of the physical and
emotional spaces of our lives.
Grounded, in part through his experience of mental illness
and disability, as well as his lineage from Holocaust survivors, his practice
is defined by a need to express, direct, and come into dialogue with histories
of trauma, emotional struggle, and environmental precarity. Through his art, he
examines notions of despair, love, and mythology, ultimately providing a visual
language that gives meaningful expression to the difficulties we face as human
beings.