Benjamin Truong
Website: https://www.bentruongart.com/
Email: [email protected]
40 Jarvin Road
Port Jefferson Sta. 11776
(631) 275-6193
Education
2022 - 2025 BA Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794
2020 Associates Suffolk County Community College, 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:
Into the Woods, Webster Arts Gallery, 2 Summit Avenue, Webster Groves, MO 63119, Curated by Andrew Rola
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
Past:
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
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
Skills
Autocad, versions 2013-2019 (6 Years)
Adobe Photoshop: 8 Years
Child Care: 2 years
Exhibit Preparator- August 2023-Current
Lithography: August 2023 - December 2024
Print Studio Workshop Management
Teaching: 3 years
Trilingual, Native English speaker, Native Cantonese speaker, Elementary Japanese