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Benjamin Cottam Biography
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BFA Interdisciplinary, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
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MFA Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
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Lives and works in New York
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Cottam's nearly complete 'Dead Artist' series features artists that have died since 1950. All portraits are approximately the same size, all set on the same size paper, floating frail images of both famous and once-famous artists. The method of the drawings, silverpoint, is itself an antiquated technique so that in both technical and conceptual terms, his project combines the nearly forgotten (or soon to be forgotten) artists with a nearly forgotten drawing technique. The subject of this portrait, Alfred Jensen, was an artist deeply interested in the inter-relatedness of Goethe's color theories, Mayan numerologies and the theories of the scientist Michael Faraday.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Schlectriem Brothers, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2008
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Galerie Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
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2008
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En Face/Surface, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
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2008
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Desenhos Estranhos [Uncanny Drawings], Porta 33, Funchal, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal
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2007
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Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York (solo)
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2007
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Vernissage, C2C, Berlin, Germany
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2007
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The New Generation, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
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2007
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Stuff, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan
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2007
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Small is Beautiful, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc, New York
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2007
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Blood Meridian, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
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2006
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Hidde Van Seggelen, London (solo)
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2006
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Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York (solo)
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2006
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Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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2006
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FACES, BFAS Blondeau Fine Arts Services, Geneva, Switzerland
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2006
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Subject: Contemporary Portraiture, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
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2006
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Of Mice and Men, The 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin Germany
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2006
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Big Paintings, Small Paintings, White Sculpture, The Cartin Collection, G-Fox building, Hartford, Connecticut
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2006
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NEW WORK, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York
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2005
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New Talents, Art Cologne 2005, Cologne, Germany
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2005
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Flower Power, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York.
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2004
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Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York (solo)
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2004
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Robert Barry, Benjamin Cottam, Thomas Locher, Olivier Mosset
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2004
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Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York
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2004
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Sadie Hawkins Dance, Southfirst Arts, Brooklyn, New York
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2004
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Portraits, Esso Gallery, New York, New York
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2004
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Works on Paper, Southfirst Arts, Brooklyn, New York
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2003
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Benjamin Cottam - Paintings, Carlson Tower Gallery, Northpark University, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
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2002
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Salon V, The Oni Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
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2001
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The 17th Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
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2001
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Salon IV, The Oni Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
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2001
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Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Tufts University Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Massachusetts
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2001
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Salon III, The Oni Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
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1999
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Salon, The Adams Art Space, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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1999
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Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California.
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1999
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Zyzzyva, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California
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