Born in Vietnam.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011 Crosscurrents, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010 Drawing of the Year, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

2010 Lonely Fire, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

2010 New Works, Kymata Project Space, Seattle, WA

2009 Brooklyn Artillery, Castle Braid, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Outside the Time Zone, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Liberating Landscapes, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009 Gold Rush, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

2009 Gold Rush, Gallery OP-Nord, Stuttgart, Germany

2008 To Choo Gesser, Ichys Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2008 Gold Rush, City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2007 Diaspora, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA

2007 APAture 2007, Space 180, San Francisco, CA

2007 The Drawing Show, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006 Invented Memory, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006 Subject to Revision, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 2.6.04, 2604 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA

2003 Shift, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003 Review Preview, Washington Square Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003 San Francisco International Art Expo, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002 Inventive Landscapes, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001 FUSE, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

2001 SFAI Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

2001 SFAI@Microsoft Exhibition, One Market Street, San Francisco, CA

2000 MFA Exhibit, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA


PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2009 Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA


CURATORIAL ART PROJECTS

1996 Images of Self: The Search For Identity Through Art, Schick Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009 Gibson, Allison. Ben Needham, DailyServing.com, August 16

2007 Feinstein, Lea. Ben Needham, ArtNews, January edition

2001 Crump, Anne. Artspeak: Voyage of Self-Discovery, SF Examiner, August 24


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Skidmore College Permanent Collection

Private Collections


PROFESSIONAL

Freelance Photographer
2006-Present

Project Manager & Photographer
2007-2009 Christopher Burke Studio, New York, NY


EDUCATION

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
M.F.A., Painting

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
B.S., Studio Art

Parsons Paris School of Art + Design, Paris, France

Friends Seminary, New York, NY


AWARDS

1996 Honors, Skidmore College Senior Show, Saratoga Springs, NY