Benjamin Prabowo Sexton
Benjamin Prabowo Sexton works predominantly with photography, placing an emphasis on the postproduction values of the medium. Sexton utilises his photographic archive to alter images through experimental darkroom processes, such as masking and misregistration to form new compositions. His works are typically monochromatic, unique state, silver gelatin prints that combine collage, photography and drawing techniques to step outside the traditional conventions of photographic practice.
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Benjamin Prabowo Sexton (né Lichtenstein) is an Indonesian-born, Melbourne/Naarm-based artist. Recent solo exhibitions include Touch, Daine Singer (2019), Keen, c3 (2018), Bound For Glory, a collaboration with Oscar Perry, The Honeymoon Suite (2017), Living In Oblivion, Anna Pappas Gallery (2015), Flower, Fort Delta (2015), Crescent, Neospace (2014), I Know You Will Be Happy Here, Utopian Slumps (2013) and Death Adder, Chapter House Lane (2013). Group exhibitions include The National, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2021), Index, Centre for Contemporary Photography (2020), Illusions and Allusions, Missing Persons (2018), Group Show: Second Iteration, a collaborative exhibition with Arts Project Australia, Arts Project Australia (2016), The Bends, PhotoAccess (2016), The Alchemists: Rediscovering Photography in the Age of the Jpeg, Australian Centre for Photography (2015) and Mental, Muddguts Gallery New York (2014), Sexton has also participated in the Melbourne Art Fair.
Sexton was a finalist for the 2013 Bowness Prize, and was recipient of the 2006 Kodak Salon Excellence in Photomedia award at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) from the Victorian College of the Arts.
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Benjamin Prabowo Sexton (né Lichtenstein) (born 1984 Jakarta, Indonesia, lives Melbourne)
Education
2009 Bachelor of Fine Art, (Photography), Victorian College of the ArtsSolo exhibitions
2024 A Timeless Watch, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2023 LOOKOUTLOOK, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2022 long time no see, Cathedral Cabinet, PHOTO 2022, Melbourne
2021 Peaceful interval, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2019 Touch, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2018 Keen, c3, Melbourne
2017 Bound For Glory, collaboration with Oscar Perry, The Honeymoon Suite, Melbourne
2015 Even Dim Stars Add Light To The Universe, Independent Photography Festival, Doomsday, Melbourne
2015 Living In Oblivion, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Flower, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2014 Paperwork, 136 Johnston Street, Melbourne
2014 Crescent, Neospace, Melbourne
2013 I Know You Will Be Happy Here, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2013 Run, Warwick Baker, The John and Marion Frye Collection, Los Angeles
2013 Death Adder, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne
2012 Cereal Dust, Neospace, MelbourneGroup exhibitions
2025 Synchron City (curated by Cassie May), Gippsland Art Gallery
2022 DAS BOOT: Artist Car Boot Fair, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2021 Four X Four, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery
2021 Spring1883, Melbourne
2021 The National, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2020 Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2020 Index, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2019 Glass Eye, LON Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Illusions and Allusions, Missing Persons, Melbourne
2017 Hyper Hyper, Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin
2016 Group Show: Second Iteration, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2016 The Bends, PhotoAccess, Canberra
2015 Group Show, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne
2015 The Alchemists: Rediscovering Photography in the Age of the Jpeg, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2015 Very Liveable As Is, With Room To Polish Presentation, 174 Albion Street, Melbourne
2014 View From The Window, Edmund Pearce, Melbourne
2014 Mental, Muddguts Gallery, New York City
2014 Christina’s World, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2014 Das Boot Fair, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2013 This Has Been, c3, Melbourne
2008 Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Everything Forever, 672 Nicholson Street, Melbourne and Palm Court Gallery, PerthBibliography
2021 Anne Ryan, ‘Benjamin Prabowo Sexton, The National’, cat. essay, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2021
2020 Oscar Perry ‘Wink’, for Benjamin Prabowo Sexton: Touch, Daine Singer, Melbourne, 2020
2018 China Aleisse, ‘Interview: Benjamin Sexton, Physical Photography’, Acclaim, Issue 38, guest edited by Roj Amedi, April 2018
2016 The Kingsboro Press, Issue 9, 2016
2016 Louise Klerks, Group Show, cat. essay, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne 2016
2015 Benjamin Sexton, He’s Got a Nug, Heavy Time, Melbourne, edition of 100, 2015
2013 The Blackmail, Offline, Issue 2, 2013Awards
2013 Finalist, Bowness Prize
2006 Kodak Salon at Centre for Contemporary Photography (Excellence in Photomedia)
