EDUCATION

2012 The University of Texas at San Antonio: MFA-Studio Art

1995 Texas State University: BFA-Communication Design

EXHIBITIONS

Solo

2021

Rockport Center for the Arts, Earthbound, Rockport, TX

2018

Dorćol Gallery, The Illusion of Happiness, San Antonio, TX

Keller Henderson, Structures, San Antonio, TX

2017

Artpace, Open, San Antonio, TX

Guest Room Projects, Collected, Fort Worth, TX

2014

Roosevelt Gallery, Voided Spaces, San Antonio, TX

2013

Annetta Kraushaar Gallery at Texas Lutheran University, The Second Part of the First, Seguin, TX

Group

2024

St. Mary’s University, Together by Design, San Antonio, TX

Amarillo Museum of Art, The Collecting Eye of Ray Graham, Amarillo, TX

Cain Gallery, Del Mar College, Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Corpus Christi, TX

2023

Amarillo Museum of Art, Biennial 600, Amarillo, TX

Mercury Project, Still Life, San Antonio, TX

Camiba Gallery, discards vessels fragments, Austin, TX

2022

San Antonio International Airport, San Antonio Artists, San Antonio, TX

2021

Casa Lü, Liminal, Mexico City, Mexico

2019

Site:Brooklyn, Small and Smaller, Brooklyn, NY

St. Edward’s University Fine Arts Gallery, SEU Fine Arts Gallery Flatfile, Austin, TX

Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, 47th Annual International Art Show, Brownsville, TX

Austin Community College, Highland Campus, The Borders of Belonging: Art, Conflict Transformation and Peace, Austin, TX

2018

S. Tucker Cooke Gallery at University of North Carolina Asheville, 9th Annual Drawing Discourse, Asheville, NC

North American Art Gallery, Re/Search, McAllen, TX

2017

The University of Texas at San Antonio, Main Gallery, Three Decades, San Antonio, TX

2016

Cinnabar, Muse, San Antonio, TX

Public Art San Antonio (PASA), Compositions in Space: Architectural Interventions, San Antonio, TX

Southwest School of Art, Texas Draws IV Biennial, San Antonio,TX

Public Art San Antonio (PASA), Portable Artworks Collection, City Hall, San Antonio, TX

2015

Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, Transmission, San Antonio, TX

McNay Art Museum, Regarding Ruscha, San Antonio, TX

The University of Texas at San Antonio, Main Gallery, Elemental ‘Scapes, San Antonio, TXRadius Gallery, Fractures, San Antonio, TX

Bastrop Art in Public Places, Bastrop Downtown Sculpture Project, Bastrop, TX

2014

Ruiz-Healy Art, INK Miami Art Fair, Miami, FL

2013

French & Michigan, 50/250, San Antonio, TX

2012

K Space Contemporary, 3rd Coast National, Corpus Christi, TX

The University of Texas at San Antonio, Main Gallery, Arte Nuevo, San Antonio, TX

PUBLICATIONS

2023

Elise Krentzel, “Discards Vessels Fragments – a joint exhibit of three artists at Camiba Gallery” Sun New Austin, March 10, 2023: https://sunnewsaustin.com/2023/03/10/discards-vessels-fragments-a-joint-exhibit-of-three-artists-at-camiba-gallery

2022

Ayden Smith, “Gallery Practicum: Creating space for art” Trinitonian, March 3, 2022: https://trinitonian.com/2022/03/03/gallery-practicum-creating-space-for-art

2019

Whit James, “Austin art aficionados curate local artists in new on-campus exhibition” Hilltop Views, October 2, 2019: https://www.hilltopviewsonline.com/19910/life-and-arts/austinart-aficionados-curate-local-artists-in-new-on-campus-exhibition/

“Art & Life with Benjamin McVey” Voyage Houston, April 24, 2019: http://voyagehouston.com/interview/art-life-benjamin-mcvey/ 

2018

Nancy Moyer, “Exhibit presents explorations of philosophies that build self, social awareness,” The Monitor, September 24, 2018.

2017 

Brandon Zech, “The Art of the Livestream,” Glasstire, April 21, 2017.

Leah Feneley, “Professor Benjamin McVey Displays Work in Artpace,” The Paisano, March 28, 2017.   

Elda Silva, “Art(ist) is On Display,” San Antonio Express-News, January 31, 2017.

2016

Debbie Moore, “Bastrop’s art collection grows with new sculptures,” Austin American-Statesman, Aug. 19, 2016.

Manifest International Drawing Annual: INDA 10. Manifest Press, 2016, p.145.

2015 

“Downtown Bastrop Sculpture Project Celebrates Texas Artists,” PR Newswire, March 3, 2015.

Steve Bennett, “Artists Navigate Our Place in the Landscape,” San Antonio Express-News, June 9, 2015.

Dan R. Goddard, “Everyday Life Connects the Dots in New Blue Star Exhibits,” San Antonio Current, June 17, 2015.

David S. Rubin, “Investigations of Private and Public Spaces,” The Rivard Report, June 27, 2015.

2012

Rachel Hooper, “Houston to San Antonio,” Glasstire, December 9, 2012.

2008

Naomi Ekperigin, “Painting Objects Lost and Found,” American Artist: Artist Daily, September 11, 2008.

RESIDENCIES

2023

Venezia Contemporanea, La Storta Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy

2021

Casa Lü, Mexico City, Mexico 

2017

The Studios at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA 

2015

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2014

The League Residency at Vytlacil, Sparkill, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Eastfield College, Mesquite, Texas

The City of Bastrop, Texas