b. London, 1983.

Education

MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, 2006-2008

BA Hons Fine Art, Newcastle University, 2002-2006 (First Class)

Art Foundation, Abingdon College, 2001-2002 (Distinction)

Awards

BP Portrait Award 2014, The National Portrait Gallery, London

BP Portrait Award 2012, The National Portrait Gallery, London

Solo Exhibitions

Before A Fall, Roq La Rue, 2023

To Our Glorious Future, Roq La Rue Gallery, 2021

The King is Dead, Long Live the King, The Cob Gallery, 2016

At Home with the Ashtons, Simon Oldfield, 2011

Ben Ashton, Simon Oldfield, 2009

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Secret Longings, Beautiful BIzarre, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles

Seattle Art Fair, Roq La Rue

2022

HRH Princess Margaret, Ken Griffiths Bureau, London

Spring Break Art Show - Perfect Illusion, Gentle Giant Projects, Los Angeles

Spring Break Art Show - Objective Reality, Gentle Giant Projects, New York

Tiny Ghosts, Roq La Rue Gallery - Hi Fructose, Seattle

Halcyon Days, Modern Eden Gallery - Beautiful Bizarre, San Francisco

2021

Scope Miami, Mortal Machine Gallery, Miami

Invisible Landscapes, Mortal Machine Gallery, New Orleans

Lucid, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne

Male of the Species, Arcadia Gallery, New York

Vanguard, Outre Gallery, Melbourne

2020

ArtLife 2020, Moscow

Vanguard, Outré Gallery, Melbourne

All The Things, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle

Wynwood Art Fair, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami

LA Art Show, Arcadia Gallery, Los Angeles

Portraiture 2020, Arcadia Gallery, Los Angeles

2019

Art Basel Miami, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami

Microdose, The Booth Gallery, New York

Mondo Tondo, Arcadia Gallery, Los Angeles

The New Portrait, Storpunkt Gallery, Munich

The Group Show /01, Betamax Gallery, Vancouver

2018

Daphne Guinness and The Golden Chord, Glass Sculptures commissioned by Daphne Guinness, London

2013

ICA Off-Site, A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now, ICA/The Old Selfridges Hotel, London

2012

Courtship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield, London

BP Portrait Award 2012, The National Portrait Gallery, London

2011

Apartment, Bloomsbury Square, London,

Shifting Boundaries, Brighton Phoenix, Brighton

2010

The House of Voltaire, Studio Voltaire, London

Get on, Get in, Get out, Holster Projects, London

2009

The Brain Unravelled, Slade Research Centre, London

2008

Ascension, Simon Oldfield, London

Figurative Painting Prize, The Boundary Gallery

2007    

Toronto Art Fair

Residencies & Other

2013.  Grosvenor Estate Residency, Mayfair, London

2011.  The Polyhedron Project, Queen Square/The Art Workers Guild, London

2010.  The Bloomsbury Festival, Open Studio, London

2009.  Whitechapel Gallery patrons visit & curator-led tour, 2009 Solo Show

2008.  The Bloomsbury Studio, Artist in Residence (2008-2011)

2008.  Suspending Disbelief, The Slade Summer School, Artist in Residence

2007.  The Deconstruction of Illusion, Sassoon Gallery, Artist in Residence