Articles
Adriana Grant, “Puffy Headphones Make Sculpture Sound Better,” Seattle Weekly, Oct 17, 2007
Jen Graves, “Hug, Heavy Clunky Things, White Weasels,” The Stranger, Oct 15-21, 2007
Regina Hackett, “In the Galleries,” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan 4, 2007
Regina Hackett, “The Henry dresses up in dandy duds,” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 2, 2006
Jack Broom, “Exhibition encourages blind, slighted to see with their hands,” The Seattle Times, June 20, 2005
Liz Armstrong, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor”, Chicago Reader, Sept. 30, 2005, p.10.
Andrew Engelson, “Coupling” Visual Art Picks, Seattle Weekly, May 4 2005.
Emily Richmond, “P.A. store to offer clothing and art,” Palo Alto Daily News, Nov. 5th, 1998, p. 10.
Dona van Bronkhorst, “Shop Talk”, Palo Alto Weekly, Dec. 16th, 1998.
Art Review, “Ghost fish and other ceramics by Hirschkoff”, The Eureka Times-Standard, Sept. 23rd, 1995.
Catalogs and Periodicals
“Ben Hirschkoff: “Controlled Fire Variations” at Soil”, Matthew Kangas, art ltd. Magazine, March, Pp. 1 “Ben Hirschkoff: “Controlled Fire Variations” at Soil”, Matthew Kangas, art ltd. Magazine, March, Pp. 1
“Ben Hirschkoff”, foreword by Jesse van Nostrand, profile by Robert Yoder, SOIL 2006, November, Pp. 3, 16-17.
“As They See It”, foreword by Suzanne Beal, 2006 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, June, p. 7.
Awards
Jury Award: Touching Art, Washington State Department of Services for the Blind, Seattle, Washington
Derek Lagerwerff Memorial Scholarship Award, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
First Place, collaboration with Marcela Lineiro, Recycled Sculpture Competition
Humboldt County Integrated Waste Management Program, Eureka, California
Collections
Washington State Services for the Blind
National and International Private Collections
Professional and Volunteer Experience
Visiting Instructor, Kinetic Art Workshop, PRATT, Seattle, Washington
Visiting Instructor, ceramics/mixed media, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, Washington
Substitute Instructor, time-based media workshop, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Substitute Instructor, art program for teens, Gage Academy, Seattle, Washington
Substitute Instructor, Ceramics, Lakeside High School, Seattle, Washington
Guest instructor of "Clay and..." ceramic/multimedia class,
Pottery Northwest, Seattle, Washington
Substitute Instructor at Fyre Art Museum, Gage Academy of Art
Current member of Soil Artist Run Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Co-Director, The Strange Company, student organization, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Graduate Instructor, Ceramics and 3D Foundations, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Ceramics Glaze Tech at California State University, Hayward, Hayward, California
Ceramics Lab Tech at City College of San Francisco, California
Volunteer Ceramics Mentor at Youth Industry, Artist Mentorship Program, San Francisco, California
"Sculpted Green", Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition 2008, Bellevue, Washington
"Soil 2008" Aqua Art Miami, Miami Beach, Florida
"More Dirt", collaboration with Susie J. Lee, Soil, Seattle, Washington
"Soil 2006", Aqua Art Miami, curator: Jess Van Nostrand, Miami Beach, Florida
"Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition", Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"Marking Territories", in conjunction with National Council on Education for the
Ceramic Arts, Portland Art Center, Portland, Oregon
"Ben Hirschkoff, Jayme Kalal and R.K. Shuquem", Reversible Eye Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois
"Touching Art", art exhibition for the blind, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington
"Coupling", collaboration with Thom Heileson, Center on Contemporary Art,
Seattle, Washington
"Skull Show", HaNNa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Ben Hirschkoff and Scott Williams", Anu, San Francisco, California
"Homeland Security Show", ABCO, Oakland, California
"Reversible Eye Home and Music Show", 21 Grand, Oakland, California
"Infernoval", Balazo / Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Ebullient Miasma", 21 Grand, Oakland, California
"Ben Hirschkoff and Dara Santhai", Gallery Fight!, Los Angeles, California
"Kelly Correl, Michael Conway, and Ben Hirschkoff", Balazo, / Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Reversible Eye Art and Music Show", Talk of the Town, Oakland, California
"Gluttony Show", food-based performance with Adrienne Peterson, ABCO, Oakland,
California
"Hell Haus" Balazoa / Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco, California
"ABCO Creepshow", ABCO, Oakland, California
"Plewds! Squeams!and Spurls", Balazo / Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco,
California
"Problems", 21 Grand, Oakland, California
"Civilization Excavation", Gallery Luscombe, San Francisco, California
"Cloud/Clad", Mithun Architecture Firm, Seattle, Washington
"The Sky Is Not Falling", Soil Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"Atmosphere Attached", 4Culture, Seattle, Washington
"Controlled Fire: Variations", Soil, Seattle, Washington
"Sky Cave",CMA Gallery, University Of Washington, Seattle, Washington
"Play Decay", Noc Noc, Seattle, Washington
"Absurd to Unlikely" 21 Grand, Oakland, California
"Evolution vs. Gravity", Phyllis, Palo Alto, California
Born 1972 San Diego, California
Resides Seattle, Washington
Education
2006
1994