Benjamin Truong

40 Jarvin Road

Port Jefferson Sta. 11776

(631) 275-6193

Education

2025 - 2028 Stony Brook University, Masters Student, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794

2022 - 2025 Stony Brook University Bachelors of Arts, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794

2020 - Suffolk County Community College, Associates in Science in Visual Arts, Ammerman Campus, 533 College Rd, Selden, NY

2014 - 2016 Architectural Design Program, 565 N Bicycle Path, Port Jefferson Station, NY

2012 - 2016 Comsewogue Senior High School Advanced Regents Diploma, 565 N Bicycle Path, Port Jefferson Station, NY

2012 - 2014 Digital Design Production Program, 565 N Bicycle Path, Port Jefferson Station, NY

Exhibitions

Current and Upcoming:

2025 De-Constructed, 235 Montauk Hwy, Center Moriches, NY 11934

2025 Piece by Piece, South Huntington Public Library, 145 Pidgeon Hill Rd, Huntington Station, NY 11746

Past:

2025 Dress Rehearsal, MFA Exhibition, Alloway Gallery, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, Melville Library, NY 11794

2025 Animalia, Student Union, Art Hub, 250 John S. Toll Drive, Stony Brook, NY 11794

2025 Long Island Aquarium 25th Anniversary Exhibition, 431 East Main St. Riverhead, NY 11901, Curated by Bryan DeLuca, Eli Fishman, Clayton Oreheck and East End Arts

2025 Seeing Triple, Staller 2nd Floor, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794

2025 OOPS Unfortunately, August 21st - September 3rd- A Space Gallery 13th Grattan St, #402 Brooklyn, NY 11206

2025 Vitality, group curated exhibition 22 Station Rd, Bellport, NY 11713, Curated by Piece by Piece

2025 Art Fluent IMPERMANANCE, 1 Washington Mall #1218, Boston MA 02108

2025 Into the Woods, Webster Arts Gallery, 2 Summit Avenue, Webster Groves, MO 63119, Curated by Andrew Rola

2025 45th National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, 300 E Main Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802, Curated by Head of Printmaking at BGSU Professor Janet Ballweg

2025 Piece by Piece, group exhibition at Comsewogue Public Library, 170 Terryville Rd, Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776, Curated by local art group Piece by Piece

2024 Kobe Exchange Exhibition IMAGINE Peace Drawing, Gallery Serendip 神戸市, 8 Chome-1-1 Gakuen Nishimachi, Nishi Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 651-2103, Japan

2024 Fictional Collective Memories, Unbound Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, 3rd Floor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5425

2024 Soup, Student Union, Art Hub, 250 John S. Toll Drive, Stony Brook, NY 11794

2024 Creative Juice Box, Staller 2nd Floor, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794

2024 Sequencing, Staller 2nd Floor, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794

2024 GEN Art, East End Arts Gallery, 133 E Main St, Riverhead, NY 11901, Curated by Kenneth Jackson

2024 Echoes of Nostalgia, Student Union, Art Hub, 250 John S. Toll Drive, Stony Brook, NY 11794

2024 The SCHWA Show, Emerge Gallery and Art Center, 404 Evans St, Greenville, NC 27858 Curated by Austin Sheppard, Assistant Professor at Coker University Hartsville, SC

2024 6th Annual Juried Online Exhibition, Idaherma Museum of Art, Online Group Exhibition, Princeton, NJ 08542-08544 Curated by Shaun Daley

2024 35 under 35, The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences

120 Long Beach Blvd., Loveladies, NJ 08008, Curated by Ruba Katrib, Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs, MoMA PS1

2024 Every Picture Tells a Story, Old Town Arts and Crafts Guild, 28265 Main Rd, Cutchogue, NY 11935, Curated by Seung Lee, Korean-American, award winning, contemporary artist and a Professor of Art at Long Island University.

2024 True Beauty (3rd Annual Exhibition), Exhibizone, Online group exhibition

2024 An Artist’s Perspective, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, Melville Library, NY 11794, Curated by Grace McCollins

2024 Solo Exhibition ZOONAMI, Unbound Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, 3rd floor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5425

2024 URECA Exhibition, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, 1st floor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5425

2024 Sunwood, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, 1st floor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5425, Curated by Maurie D. Mclnnis President of Yale University

2024 Senior Show, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, 1st floor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5425

2023 Unbound, Unbound Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, 3rd floor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5425

2023-2024 Sunwood, Sunwood Estate, 90 Mt.Gray Road, Curated by Maurie D. Mclnnis President of Stony Brook University

2023 URECA Exhibition Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, 1st floor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5425

2023 Soup, Unbound Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, 3rd floor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5425

2023 Continuum, Gallery Unbound, 3rd floor Staller, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794

2020 Flecker On The Fly, Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Suffolk County Community College, Ammerman Campus, Selden, NY

2019 Flecker Gallery, Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Suffolk County Community College, Ammerman Campus, Selden, NY

Awards

2024 Sunwood-Artistic Achievement and Contribution

2024 Virginia Fuller Honorable Mention

2024 Staller Center of Excellence Award

2023 Sunwood- Artistic Achievement and Contribution

2020 Flecker On The Fly- Excellence Award for Drawing

2019 Frontispiece for Gallery Card, Flecker Gallery, Annual Juried Student Exhibition

Curatorial

Jefferson Ferry Experimental Exhibition, Jefferson Ferry Life Plan Community, 1 Jefferson Ferry Dr, South Setauket, NY 11720, Curated by Benjamin Truong and Grace McCollins

Employment

2019 - 2022 Three Village School District, Lunch Monitor, Recess Monitor, Filler, Cindy Perrotta, 134 Main Street, East Setauket, NY 11733, 2020-2022

2016 - 2020 Private Caretaker, Robert J. Danks, 238 East Broadway, Port Jefferson 11777, providing daily necessities to clients, and assisting with their daily tasks. (2016-2020)

2015 - 2016 High School English Tutor, Comsewogue Public Library, 170 Terryville Rd, Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776

Related Experience

Art Published in 2024 Sandpiper Review Magazine Issue 3, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook

Teaching Assistant for Howardena Pindell’s Painting 2 Class, Spring Semester of 2023

Teaching Assistant for Lorena Salcedo Watson, Lithography Class, Fall Semester of 2023

Teaching Assistant for Jason Paradis, Foundations Drawing 154, Fall Semester of 2025

Skills

Autocad, versions 2013-2019 (6 Years)

Adobe Photoshop: 8 Years

Child Education: 2 years

Exhibit Preparator- August 2023-Current

Lithography: August 2023 - December 2024

Print Studio Workshop Management: 2023-Current

Teaching: 3 years

Trilingual, Native English speaker, Native Cantonese speaker, Elementary Japanese