Ongoing and Upcoming
The Well, a new interviews series for Myrtle
Soft Opening, Last Fridays, monthly [note: No SO in May ‘24!]
Reinsulator, Providence Public Library, 4.20.24
Extended Play, Myrtle, 6.20.24
PechaKucha, Inspiria, 10.23.24
WLWLTDOO, Providence Public Library, Summer ‘25
Recent
Gallerie All Together at RISD Museum, 02.18.24
Providence Commemoration Lab branding
Exhibiting and Curating, 2021–
Permanent Collection at Paper Nautilus Books
If I Had a Flower..., Sept-Oct 2023
How to Live on Love, July-Aug 2023
I Walked Up to the Cloud, May-June 2023
Herstory, Mar-April 2023
Protest Grim Reapers, Jan-Feb 2023
PSE QSL PVD, Nov-Dec 2022
Snack Aisle, Sept-Oct 2022
Seekonk Museum, Seekonk Public Library, 10.01.22
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder (online), 10.27.22
Dye House, Providence, 10.20.22
Ace Hotel, Brooklyn, 9.22.22
DESIGNxRI's Design Week, 09.20.2023
True Bearing at AS220, 02.05.2023
Kid Pix Show, University of Colorado, Boulder (online), 2022
Local Group Shows (RI, MA):
Beyond the Photograph, RICPA, 2024
Autonomous, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 2024
ARTiculate, Rogers Free Library, 2023
Ocean State of Mind, Rogers Free Library, 2023
Art Odyssey, Rogers Free Library, 2023
Inside/Out, Warwick Center for the Arts, 2022
Boundaries, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard, MA, 2022
Music Stuff, 2021—
Miho Hatori & Baby Baby at Myrtle, 10.10.23
Sold-out TWW / HANL show, The Sinclair, Boston, 4.28.23
Grants and Awards, 2021—
(2) Grants from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
(1) Grant from the Providence Dept. of Art, Culture, and Tourism
Panelist for the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
RIQSLA acquired by Special Collections at the PPL
Featured in Mass Art SIM’s “Big 50” book
Talks and Mentorship, 2021—
ArtSpeaks at The Wurks, 9.12.23
PechaKucha at The Providence G Rooftop, 1.31.24
Occasionally mentoring students at Mass Art, Boston
Press, 2021—
Featured article on QUERI in The Boston Globe Magazine
Full page coverage of QUERI in Rhode Island Monthly
QUERI a Squarespace Spotlight Project, October 2023
Freelance / Work, 2021—
Design for RozeWood Farms & Estate, Long Island, NY
Design for Providence Commemoration Lab
atac in Framingham—web, booking, marketing, communications
Did some brand work + shirt designs for The Classic Cafe
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Hello. I’m Ben Sisto (he/him; b. 1980)—an artist, husband, and dad living in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. I enjoy research, public events, and collecting things. My work has been seen / heard in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Fast Company, Vice, Hyperallergic, i-D, 99% Invisible, Variety, Rolling Stone, and at SXSW. I’m currently freelancing, should you need anything. Send an Email.
Pre-2021 below; less organized.
You’ll also find a lot of stuff in this Event Archive page, and scattered throughout this Projects Blog.
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Rock Collection Collection, City Reliquary, Brooklyn, April 27, 2018
Pressure Burns with Plants, Bushel, Delhi, NY 2017
Linger On, Ace Hotel LA, 2015
Used Books, Good Work Gallery, Brooklyn, 2014
O.K., Graduate School Gallery, Brooklyn, 2009
Group Shows & Pairings:
Bingo, Russell Janis, Brooklyn, 2021
Collectors Night, NY Fire Museum, April 14, 2018
MoWLWLTDOO, Spring/Break Art Fair, NYC, 2017
Common Sense, A/D/O, Brooklyn, 2017
City Reliquary Collectors' Night, New York, 2017
64 Bits, Q.E. Olympic Park, London, 2017
Ace AIR (participating artist), Ace Hotel London, 2017
Internet! A Retrospective, SPUR, San Fransisco, 2016
Luminations, Russel Janis, Brooklyn, 2016
Art Basil, Los Angeles, 2015
Spring/Break Art Fair, New York, 2015
99c Plus Art Shop II, 99c Gallery, Brooklyn, 2015
Frequencies 2, Beverly's 21, NYC, 2014
Cinders Gallery 10 Year Show, South Street Seaport, NYC, 2014
Brooklyn Zine Fest, Brooklyn, 2013
City Reliquary Collectors' Night, Brooklyn, 2013
Artyles Salon, Walking Around Wandering, Brooklyn, 2012
Microfortnight, Brooklyn, March 2011
The Weight of the Words, Stuffinablank, Spain, 2010/11
Instructions for Initial Conditions, Parallax Space, Lincoln NE, 2010
Apartment Show: Television City Dreams, 255 Starr St, Brooklyn, 2010
On the Grid, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, 2010
Buddy Systems, Charlie Horse, Brooklyn, 2010
If the Dogs Are Barking, Artists Space, NYC, 2010
Big Apple, Clifton Benevento, Manhattan, 2010
Happy House, Printed Matter, Manhattan, 2009
Summer Series, Mass MoCA, North Adams MA, 2009
Apartment Show, Envoy Gallery, Manhattan, 2009
Anna Kournikova Deleted…, Dortmund, Germany, 2008
VidFest, Union Sq, Sommerville, 2008
Dare 2 Share, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2006
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WLWLTDOO Tour (London, Seattle, LA, NYC, Boston, more), 2018
Visiting Artist / Lecture, SUNY Purchase, September 2017
New Inc summer retreat, Garrison, NY, August 2017
Visiting artist at Residency Unlimited, July 2017
Web Safe 2k16 Live in London, Ace Hotel, March 2017
King's College, London, March 2017
Web Safe 2k16 Live, PRX Podcast Garage, November 2016
Web Safe 2k16 Live, Brooklyn Book Festival, September, 2016
Show Us Your Junk, Union Hall, Brooklyn, 2014
New York Law School, April 2013
F.A.T. Gold at Eyebeam, New York, April 2013
Ignite XII: Internet Week, The New School, June 2011
Nerd Nite, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, March 2011
Students for Free Culture, NYU, NYC, February 2001
Supershow, Coco 66, Brooklyn, February 2011
Nerd Nite: American Repertory Theatre, Boston, January 2011
Wikipedia Day: 10th Year Bash, NYU, NYC, January 2011
World’s Fair Use Day 2011, Post Conference Center, D.C., January 2011
Tide Pool, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NYC, December 2010
Spectre, Lions Gallery, Miami FL, November 2010
Open Video Conference, F.I.T., NYC, October 2010
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Science Sandbox Fellow, New Lab, 2018
Sylvia Rivera Law Project Gala Planning Committee, 2017
Brooklyn Museum Gala Steering Committee, 2015
“Best DIY Promoter”, Boston Phoenix Readers’ Poll, 2006