benjaminthomasjenner@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2019 – 2024 PhD (practice-led), School of Fine Art, History of Art, & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. Enabled by Arts, Humanities, & Cultures Faculty Scholarship, University of Leeds.
2021 – 2022 Associate Fellow of AdvanceHE.
2007 – 2009 MFA (Painting), Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Enabled by AHRC Research Grant.
2001 – 2004 BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting), Wimbledon School of Art.
ACADEMIC
2024 – now Lecturer, History and Philosophy of Art, European Fine Art Masters, The Margate School.
2019 – 2024 Associate Lecturer on Fine Art BA Studio Program, University of Leeds.
2018 – 2019 Visiting Lecturer, UCA Canterbury, Foundation – Fine Art Pathway.
2014 Visiting Lecturer, University of Kent, BA Fine Art.
2011 Visiting Lecturer, Moscow School of Art, BA Fine Art.
2009 – 2011 Visiting Lecturer, Bath School of Art, Foundation – Fine Art Pathway.
2009 Visiting Lecturer, Central St Martins, BA Fine Art.
COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
2024 – now Drawing as Slow Conversation, research project with Louise Adkins.
2022 – 2024 Reading and Writing Bodies in Space.
2023 – now Words as Matter, thematic node of Language-Based Artistic Research Group.
2018 – now Local Senses Collective (localsenses.co.uk), co-founder, lead artist, and workshop facilitator.
A collective of nine individuals undergoing changes to their vision. Local Senses develop more-than-visual spatial representations through urban walking practices. We share this work via public facing workshops. Completed projects to date:
2023, Mapping in Woolwich, Commissioned by Royal Borough of Greenwich.
2021/22, Mapping in Lewisham, Commissioned by Liberty Festival for London Borough of Culture 2022.
2019/20, Mapping in Bloomsbury, Funded by Mayor of London’s Culture Seeds Grant.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 FROM NO FIXED POINT, Foundry Gallery, London.
2005 Dimensions Variable, The Metre Square Gallery, London.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Words as Matter, Language-Based Artistic Research, SAR Conference 2025.
2024 Drawing as Slow Conversation, The Writers’ Room, London.
2024 Reading and Writing Bodies in Space, The Project Space, University of Leeds.
2022 M2 Artists: Recent Work 2, ASC project space, London.
2018 M2 (at) 15, APT, London.
2016 Ingredients, Method, Serving Suggestion, APT, London.
2016 John Moores 2016, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
2014 Tanlines, Drawing Room, London, 2014.
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
2013 Creekside Open 2013, selected by Paul Noble, APT, London.
2013 Drawing Biennial 2013, Drawing Room, London.
2013 Signs of the City, UBM HQ with Drawing Room, London.
2011 Translate/Transcribe for Moscow Biennale, Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2011 The Invention of Painting, The Centre for Recent Drawing, London.
2009 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse (Manchester) & A Foundation (London).
2009 Red Mansion Art Prize, Woburn, Slade School of Fine Art, London.
2009 Contested Ground , 176/Zabludowicz Collection, London.
2009 Abandoned by a Third Dimension, The Centre for Recent Drawing, London.
2008 Kunstvlaai, A.P.I., Amsterdam, 2008.
RESIDENCIES
2024 Drawing as Slow Conversation, The Writers’ Room Residency, Florence Trust, London.
2008 The Red Mansion Art Prize, Residency and exhibition, Beijing/London.
2003 Association of Independent Art Schools (representing Wimbledon School of Art), Residency and exhibition, Bentlage, Germany.
CURATORIAL/EDITORIAL PROJECTS
2022 – now Editorial Board, CePRA Journal, journal for practice-led research, University of Leeds.
2024 Reading and Writing Bodies in Space, Practice Notes #1, The Project Space, University of Leeds
WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCE PAPERS/CONVERSATIONS
2024 Lin[e]guistic Diagrams: Scripting the Workshop from Beyond the Visual, Drawing Across x Along x Between University, Borders, University of Porto.
2024 Sensing the Presentation Through Dialogue: A Collective Wor[l]ding of Non-Visual Culture Midlands Conference of Critical Thought, Nottingham Trent University.
2023 Blindfolded Feedback, Practice-Led Symposium, University of Leeds.
2023 Walking Between Wor[l]ds With Lines, Language-Based Artistic Research Group, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna.
2022 Another Walk in Afternoon Sunshine, European Artistic Research Network, University of the Arts, Helsinki.
2022 A Walk in After Noon Sun Shine, Psychosocial Cartographies, Prague.
2022 Drop on Buckeye Tree, Centre for Practice Research in the Arts, UCLAN, Preston.
2021 Translation and Re-presentation in the Writing of Robert Smithson and Kenneth Goldsmith, Association of Art History annual conference.
2021 Generative Constraint and the Site of Language, Vibrant Practices, University of Leeds.
2021 In Conversation with Simon Lewandowski, University of Leeds.
PUBLICATIONS
2025 The Writers’ Room, Wild Pansy Press, University of Leeds.
2023 Practice Sharing II, Language-Based Artistic Research, online publication.
2023 Another Walk in Afternoon Sunshine, CePRA Journal, online publication.
2022 Translation and Re-presentation…, CePRA Journal, online publication.
2017 Luxurious Night, Garageland, Transition Gallery.