Ben Rivers was born in Somerset in 1972. He lives and works in London.

Recent exhibitions include Urthworks, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, 2019/2020; Now, At Last!, Sao Paolo Bienal, 2018; Ghost Strata, Matt’s Gallery London, 2018; the EYE Art & Film Prize with Hito Steyerl and Wang Bing, Amsterdam, 2018; Urth, Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2016; Islands, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany, 2016; Edgelands, Camden Arts Centre, London, 2015; Fable, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2014. In 2013 he was awarded the Artangel Open Commission, the product of which, The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, was presented at the derelict BBC Television Centre in 2015 and at The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester in 2016. Rivers’ first feature-length film, Two Years at Sea, was presented in September 2011 at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize.

Image: Ben Rivers, Ghost Srarta, still, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry Gallery