Ben Schumacher

b. in 1985, Kitchener, Canada 

He works in painting, sculpture, installation and video he lives and works in Berlin where he runs Benny boys Fuck Palace with Aidan Pontarini. He has a bachelor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo (2008) and studied FA at New York University (2011).

Solo Exhibitions

2026
I was a teenage victim of the scarlet withholding, zaza’, Milan

2025
Inner Group, Centralbanken, Oslo

2019
Anatomie des Fachfests, Weiss Falk, Basel

2018
The China Chalet Group, Bortolami, New York

2017
The Testing Place, Croy Nielsen, Vienna
Käsesakramentsystem, Kunstverein Braunschweig

2016
Johan Berggren, Malmö
Motor Earth, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles

2015
New York City Farm Tower: Peter Friel, Rochelle Goldberg, Jason Matthew Lee, Michael Pollard, Jared Madere, Andy Schumacher, Lillian Paige Walton, Jonathan Gean, Eric Schmid, Jonas Asher, Rachelle Rahme, Lauren Burns-Coady, Elaine Cameron Weir, Jenny Cheng, and Heinrike Klinger, Bortolami, New York

2014
Rebirth of The Bath House, MAC, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon
Humid Night Fly, Street Lamp, Small Wing Buzz, Bed-Stuy Love Affair, New York

2013
Mr. Vector, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
A Salted Quarterly: Notes from the Why Axis (with Carlos Reyes), Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto
DS+R and The Bar at The Orangerie, Bortolami, New York

2012
greek (with Hugh Scott-Douglas), Croy Nielsen, Berlin
1867, 1881, 1981 (with Elaine Cameron-Weir), Bodega, Philadelphia

2011
Register of Documents 1974‑, James Fuentes, New York
Ben Schumacher / Ryan Foerster, Martos Gallery, New York
Short Stories, Sculpture Center, New York
Reverse Boustrophedon, Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto
Of the Andirons, Galerie Desaga, Cologne

Group Exhibitions

2025
Robert Bittenbender, Valerie Keane, Ben Schumacher, Galerie Mazzoli, Berlin 

2023
Homotopy Type Theory, Centralbanken, Oslo 

2022
quel jour sommes-nous?, Tokonoma, Kassel

2021
A Faust(o)ian Bargain, Mazzoli Gallery, Modena
Infinity of Unidentified Objects, The Hansens’ House, Szumin Museum of Moder Art, Warsaw

2019
Showrunner, Bel Ami, Los Angeles

2018
Cool Invitations 5, XYZ Collective, Tokyo
I Was Raised on the Internet, MCA, Chicago
Sancho Panza, The Oracle, Berlin

2017
Zur Rebschänke, Weiss Falk, Basel
Hütti, Ludlow38, New York
Der Verdinst, Oracle, Berlin
Speak, Lokal, Kunsthalle Zürich
Gebärden und Ausdruck, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg

2016
The Grand Balcony – La Biennale de Montréal, Montréal
La Mérite, Treize, Paris
MORE THAN LOVERS, MORE THAN FRIENDS, Futura, Prague
I Beam U Channel, Bortolami, New York
DM/1978 Talks to DM/2010, Chelsea Space, London
FOOD – Ecologies of the Everyday, 13th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial, Fellbach
Pièces-Meublés, Patrick Seguin, Paris
The Humane Society, The Loon, Toronto

2015
Embodiment, Catherine Bastide, Miami
The boys the girls and the political, Lisson Gallery, London
Selten Gehörte Musik, Kavita B Schmid, New York
City, William Arnold, Brooklyn
Seau Banco Carbon, Bed-Stuy Love Affair at Tomorrow, New York

2014
The Moving Museum Istanbul, Sishane Otopark, Istanbul
Stars & Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Museums & Galleries of NSW, Sydney
From whose ground heaven and hell compare, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
Coming to Reality, SVIT, Futura, Prague
Samsonite, SWG3, Glasgow
Mall of America, north side food court, across from Burger King & the bank of payphones that don’t take incoming calls, Bortolami, New York
A Thousand Varied Uses, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Art Post Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Bejing

2013
Time Machine, Le Box, M‑ARCO, Marseille
Turnkey of forever after, Bed-Stuy Love Affair, New York
Relocation, Reallocation, Stockholm, McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm
Love of Technology, MOCA North Miami, Miami
Day Before This Place, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Architecture Undigested, Fused Space, San Francisco
Out of Memory, Marianne Boeskey Gallery, New York
Rien Faire Et Laisser Rire (Do Nothing And Let Them Laugh), Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Induction Procedure, art concept, Paris
Bridgehampton Biennial, Bob Nickas and Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton
Forming The Loss in Darkness, Praz-Delavallade, Paris

2012
Out of the Blue, Bortolami, New York
Creature from the Blue Lagoon, Bob Nickas and Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton
Ben Schumacher / Dan Shaw-Town, Roomeast, New York
Ten Ten, Jason Alexander, New York

2011
Claire Baily | Nicole Morris | Ben Schumacher, Laure Genillard, London
New Jpegs, Johan Berggren, Malmö
Bridgehampton Biennial, Bob Nickas and Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton
Nothing is Wrong if it Feels Good, Mike Potter Projects, Cologne