Artist: Benjamin Tollefson | Location: Savannah, GA
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Artist: Benjamin Tollefson | Location: Savannah, GA
Savannah, GA
Ben Tollefson (b. 1985, United States) lives and works in Savannah, GA. He studied painting and sculpture at Wisconsin Lutheran College and subsequently worked at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. While there, he worked with ‘Art Links to Learning,’ an award-winning K-8 education program designed to integrate arts into District of Columbia Public School classrooms. In 2011, Tollefson moved to Savannah to pursue a painting degree at the Savannah College of Art and Design. While working towards his MFA, he held the position of co-owner and Director of Public Relations and Special Events at Non-Fiction Gallery, a vibrant contemporary art gallery in the city’s Thomas Square neighborhood. Since graduation, he held a position as the Museum Coordinator at the SCAD Museum of Art and currently serves as the Assistant Curator of SCAD Exhibitions. In this role, he has curated solo exhibitions by Jane Winfield, Summer Wheat and William Singer among others. Ben creates paintings concerned with the tension between the real and artificial. He has exhibited his work in solo and group shows in Alaska, Georgia, Virginia, Washington, DC, and Wisconsin. His most recent solo exhibition “Paradise” was presented at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, AK, in the fall of 2016.