Ben Vida (born 1974) lives and works in New York. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from

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. As an artist and composer, he has been an active member of the international experimental music community for two decades with a long list of collaborators, projects and releases to his credit. Biography Vida has performed as a musician in several bands since the mid 1990s. He co-founded the minimalist quartet Town & Country and continued to perform as a guitarist and trumpeter for the band. Vida was also a member of Pillow and Terminal 4 and recorded and performed solo as Bird Show and in the Drag City band Singer. In addition to his musical endeavors, Vida has exhibited his work as a contemporary artist in recent years. His work has been performed and presented in New York at the Guggenheim, Audio Visual Arts, and The Artist’s Institute; in London at

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and The Royal Festival Hall as part of the Meltdown Festival; in Chicago at The Museum of Contemporary Art; and other locations such as the

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, Leap Gallery, Berlin, and

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. Other solo and two-person exhibitions include: 2016 mile on. . . ause. . . mile off. Lisa Cooley, New York 2015 Microramp Boombox, with Jeff DeGolier, Waterfront Gallery, Kingston, New York Slipping Control (West), 356 S Mission Rd, Los Angeles, California 2014 Damaged Particulates (Undersong Edition), Unsound NYC, Experimental Intermedia, New York. Travelled to: Cricoteka Museum, Kraków, Poland 014 Leap Gallery, Berlin, Germany 014ref name="issueprojectroom"> 2013 Bloopers: #0, Performa Biennial, New York Metal Fatigue Music with Jeff DeGolier, NADA Fair Miami special project, Miami Beach, Floridahttp://www.newartdealers.org/Events?event_id=3 Slipping Control, Audio Visual Arts, New York 2012 hy.morf.eld, Artist’s Institute, New York Vida has been the recipient of several awards including the

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Artist-in-Residency Commission; the Museu d’ Art Contemporani de Barcelona “Composing with Process” Exclusive Works Commission;

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New Works Commission and a Swedish Arts Committee Travel Grant. Recent residencies include EMS Studios, Stockholm;

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, Troy and the Clocktower, Manhattan.

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