Ben Nathan     

b. London, UK / Living and working in London, UK

Ben Nathan works across photography, painting and drawing documenting urban infrastructure and environmental pollution. His practice reveals overlooked aspects of the city and the people who sustain it. Recent projects have focused on polluted waterways, and industrial sites, incorporating water testing into his artist process. 

In 2020, he established Pinhole London, a community arts organisation using camera obscuras and pinhole photography. 

In 2017, he co-founded Baden Projekt, a series of immersive film installations exploring the changing state of water.

Ben studied at Slade School of Fine Art (2008) and The Prince's Drawing School (2009). Recent exhibitions include The Brook, Bruce Castle Museum (2026); Remains, The Valley Room, London (2024); Nouveau Quartier, Béziers, France (2018); Tales from the Towpath, London (2023); ARTBAT FEST 9, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2018). Awards and residencies include Arts Council England's Developing Your Creative Practice (2025), AiR Studio residency, London (2024) and ZK/U residency, Berlin (2017-18).

Solo exhibitions

2026 The Brook, Bruce Castle Museum, London, UK

2024 Remains (2028), The Valley Room, AiR, London, UK

2023 Tales from the Towpath, Barge FIODRA, London, UK

2018 Nouveau Quartier, Barnabu, Collectif Nabuchodonosor, Béziers, France
2015 [K-rei-t], 43 Inverness Street, London, UK
2013 Structure, 43 Inverness Street, London, UK
2012 Vision, Rosenblatt Solicitors, London, UK

Selected group exhibitions

2023 Double Exposition, La Spire, Béziers, France

2019 Le Grand Nabucho #5, Place Saint-Jacques, Collectif Nabuchodonosor, Béziers, France
2018 ARTBAT FEST 9, European network Artecitya, ZK/U, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2018 Le Grand Nabucho #4, Place Saint-Jacques, Collectif Nabuchodonosor, Béziers, France
2018 Baden Projekt @ Vorspiel, transmediale and CTM, ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
2017 Baden Projekt @ Modular Relations, ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
2017 Baden Projekt @ OPENHAUS, ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
2017 BERLIN ART WEEK, ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
2017 London Creative Network, [ s p a c e ], London, UK
2016 Bothy City of London, s.l.o.a.p. London, UK
2015 Élan Vital, Pyeong Chang Biennale, Gangwon Province, South Korea
2014 NANJI TANKS, SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2014 East London Painting Prize, Bow Arts, London, UK
2010 Our Shop, Camden Council, London, UK
2009 Underground City, Divus Unit 30, London, UK
2008 MC Motors, MC Motors, London, UK

Awards, residencies and commissions

2025 Developing my Environmental Art Practice - DYCP (21), Arts Council England 

2024 The Valley Room residency - The Valley Room, AiR, London, UK

2023 Tales from the Towpath residency - Untold Edmonton, Enfield Council, NL Heritage Fund

2020 a-n Artist Bursaries - a-n The Artists Information Company, Arts Council England
2019 Research and development residency - Το σπίτι του αβοκάντο, Athens, Greece
2018 Collectif Nabuchodonosor residency - Collectif Nabuchodonosor, Barnabu, Béziers, France
2018 Artist Dis-Placement programme - ZK/U, Artecitya project, Berlin, Germany
2017-18 ZK/U Residency - ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
2017 London Creative Network - [ s p a c e ], London, UK
2015 Riverscape Commission in Crouch End - Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd, London, UK
2014 SeMA Nanji Residency - Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2013 AJA Educational scholarship - AJA, UK
2012 IJAYA - The Ben Uri Gallery, UK
2010 Our Shop, Camden Council, UK
2009 Winsor and Newton prize, The Prince’s Drawing School, UK
2008 The Prince’s Drawing School, scholarship for year of study

Community art projects 

pinholelondon.org

Education

2013-14 Institute of Education, University of London - PGCE Art and Design Education
2008-9 The Prince’s Drawing School, London - Postgraduate Diploma
2004-8 Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London - BA Fine Art
2006-7 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem - Exchange studies
2003-4 Middlesex University, London - Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Collected

Rosenblatt Solicitors
HRH The Prince of Wales
Various private collections in UK, USA and South Korea