JAMES BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

1979 Born in Copehagen, Lives and works in Chicago, IL

EDUCATION

2009 Royal College of Art, MFA, London, UK 2007 Studio manager to Edmund de Waal, London, UK 2003 BFA Ceramics, University of Westminster, London, UK 1999 Skolen for Billedkunst, Copenhagen, DK

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Bit by bit above the edge of things, Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago, IL 2017 And dusk turned dawn, Blackthorn, NADA Miami (Solo presentation), Ice Palace Studios, Miami, FL Shields and Parergons, Reyes Projects, Birmingham, MI 2016 Northern Light, Pontiac Rise, Galerie NeC, Paris, 2015 And dusk turned dawn, Blackthorn, Simone de Sousa gallery, Detroit, MI 2014 Banja Rathnov Gallery. Copenhagen, DK 2013 A Gentle Blow to the Rock, Galerie Nec, Hong Kong A Gentle Blow to the Rock, Re:View gallery, Detroit 2012 Untitled 7, Galerie NeC, Paris – France 2011 Echo Chamber, Schein-Joseph Museum, Alfred, New York 2010 Stillness in the glorious wilderness, Matin Gallery, L.A. 2007 A joyful gathering of a defenceless legion, Matin Gallery, L.A. 2006 The only thing I can think about is yellow, Egg, London, UK 2005 New Work, Matin gallery, L.A.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 With a Capital P, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL 2018 Object and Place, The Scarab Clud, Detroit, MI From the Studio: Marie Herwald Hermann & Anders Ruhwald, Reyes Projects, Birmingham, MI 2017 Something Green, Reyes Projects, Birmingham, MI 99 Cents, MOCAD, Detroit, MI

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Saint-Etienne International Design Biennale, France Collect, London, UK 2016 This is the living vessel: person, Pewabic, Detroit Biennale Internationale de Vallauris. France 2015 Many a Slip, Marsden Woo Gallery, London, UK Edition/15, Simone de Sousa gallery, Detroit Art X Detroit, Museum for Contemporary Art Detroit Everyday Projects, Arkitektskolens bibliotek, Copenhagen, DK 2014 Strange to notice all…, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield, MI Another Look at Detroit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Mindcraft, Ventura Lambrate, Milan, Ann Linneman gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2013 Tendenser, Galleri F-15, Moss, Norway Biennalen, Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 2012 From Denmark with Love, Ampersand House and Gallery, Belgium Contemporary Applied Art, London, UK Sofa, The Armory, New York, NY Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 2011 "Forty for 40”, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MICollect, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, Overthrown, Denver Art Museum, Colorado Salon de Hiver, Inger Molin gallery, Stockholm, Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, IlNew Departures, New Transitions, N'Namdi Center, Detroit, USA 2010 Kabinett 3, Devening projects, Chicago På Tværs, Carlsberg, Copenhagen, DK Multiplemix, Devening projects, Chicago, IL Stop Start Repeat, The Anton Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI Summer Show, Butter Projects, Royal Oak 27ad Gallery, Turin, Italy 2009 Devening projects, Chicago, USA Jingdezhen International Ceramic exhibition, China Mint gallery, London, UK Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany Egg gallery, London, UK Royal College of Art, degree show, London, UK

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2008 Sir John Soanes museum, London, UK 2007 How to Love…, Drud & Køppe gallery, Copenhagen, DK

PUBLICATIONS

Featured artist, Detroit Research, Vol 2. September 2016 A Gentle Blow to the Rock, Simone de Souza Gallery, Detroit. Echo Chamber, Schein-Joseph international museum of ceramic art. Overthrown, Denver Art Museum. Anders Ruhwald and Marie T. Hermann, College of DuPage, Il Cooper, Emmanuel, Contemporary Ceramics; an International Perspective, Thames & Hudson Stillness in the Glorious Wilderness, Galerie NeC, Hong Kong

AWARDS & HONORS

2015 -17 Three year working grant, The Danish Arts Foundation 2014 The Danish Arts Foundation 2013 Kresge Artist Fellows Grant, Detroit The Danish Arts Foundation The Danish National Banks Foundation Danish Crafts Council 2012 The Danish National Banks Foundation 2011 Eikkoff Foundation 2010 The Annie and Otto Johs. Detlefs’ Prize for Ceramics, Denmark Danish crafts. 2009 The Danish Arts Foundation Augustinus Foundation Frimodt- Heineke Foundation Grosserer L.F. Foghts Foundation Knud Højgaards Foundation 2007 Oticon Foundation

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Denver Art Museum, USA Cranbrook Art Museum. USA The National Museum for Decorative Arts, Trondheim, Norway

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Sevres Museum, Paris, France The Danish Art Foundation, Denmark Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Museum, China The Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, UK

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