Ben Steele
With an education built upon classical training, Steele utilizes the processes of the old masters with a contemporary sensibility; never staying in one place for too long.
Ben
Helper, Utah
Ben Steele
With an education built upon classical training, Steele utilizes the processes of the old masters with a contemporary sensibility; never staying in one place for too long. The result is a wide-ranging body of work, from still life to portraiture to landscape (and often somewhere in between), melding art history and pop culture references in his ever-changing process.
His work can be found in many national and international personal and corporate collections, including Raymond James Financial, San Francisco Giants Executive Offices, the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Sportscaster Dan Patrick, Academy Award-Winning Producer Michael Sugar, Golfer Fred Couples’ personal collection, and in multiple Delta Airline Sky Club lounges throughout the US.
EDUCATION:
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Fall 2002
BFA, Painting and Drawing
Helper Workshops Apprenticeship, 2002-2005
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
2022
- Featured Artist, Giacobbe Fritz Fine Art, Santa Fe NM
- Solo Exhibition, Altamira Fine Art, Scottsdale AZ & Jackson WY
- Solo Exhibition, CODA Gallery, Palm Desert CA
2021
- Solo Exhibition, Friesen Fine Art, Sun Valley ID
- Solo Exhibition, Altamira Fine Art, Scottsdale AZ
- Featured Artist, Giacobbe Fritz Fine Art, Santa Fe NM
2020
- Solo Exhibition, Friesen Fine Art, Sun Valley ID
- Solo Exhibition, Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
- C.M. Russell Museum Auction, Great Falls MT
- Solo Exhibition, Altamira Fine Art, Jackson WY
2019
- Solo Exhibition, Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
- Solo Exhibition, Altamira Fine Art, Jackson WY
- Sundance Film Festival Solo Exhibition, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City UT
2018
- Solo Exhibition, Arden Gallery, Boston MA
- Delta Sky Club Guest Artist, Washington DC Ronald Reagan
- Solo Exhibition, CODA Gallery, Palm Desert UT
- Group Exhibition, National Contemporary Realism, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa OK.
2017
- us being u.s. exhibition, Gallery 19, Chicago IL
- Gallery Exhibition, Galerie Ariel Jakob, Paris FRANCE
- Solo Exhibition, Arden Gallery, Boston MA.
- Solo Exhibition, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City UT
2016
- Solo Exhibition, Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
- Solo Exhibition, Arden Gallery, Boston, MA.
- Solo Exhibition, Modern West Fine Art, SLC
2005-2015
- Over 35 solo and group exhibitions
- Western Heroes of Pulp Fiction Exhibition, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ, 2015
- Artists for the New Century Exhibition, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington VT, 2012
- Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Invitational Gala, 2012, 2013
- Springville Museum Spring Salon Award of Merit, 2006, 2007, 2009
REVIEWS & ARTICLES
- “Helper’s Artistic Revival,” PBS: This is Utah, Season 2 Episode 3, February 20, 2020
- “Utah Artist Copies Great Masters for a Laugh,” KSL TV, February 2020
- “Contemporary SW,” Phoenix Home & Garden, Summer 2019
- “The Audacity of Art: Art for the Midterm Elections,” The Magazine Santa Fe, Oct 2018
- “Avian Art Takes Flight,” Fine Art Connoisseur, Oct 2017
- “A Slice of Americana,” New City Art, July 2017
- “Art Chameleon,” American Art Collector, June 2016.
- “At Home in Helper,” Utah Stories, Feb 2016
- “Pop Goes America,” American Art Collector, Sept 2015.
- 2005-2014: Feature Articles in Southwest Art, Art and Living, In Magazine, American Art Collector, The New Mexican Pasatiempo, KVSP The Voice of Santa Fe.
