Ben Sisto, he/him, b. 1980
Providence, RI, USA
Quick Links
+ Email
+ BlueSky
+ YouTube
+ Past Projects
+ Events History
Ongoing or Upcoming
+ Guest article for Casual Archivist, Spring 2025
+ Awesome Foundation Rhode Island (monthly)
+ Michael Rose’s “Drinks with Artists” at Myrtle, 4/3/25
+ OPEN at RISD Unbound Book Fair, Fleet Library, RISD, 04/05/25
+ National Insulation Association Convention, Marlborough, 6/27-29/25
+ Who Let Who Let the Dogs Out Out, PPL, Providence, July–Aug, 2025
+ Public Disclosure at Narraganset Brewery, 9/18/25
+ Arquivo Tony Sonto! A DJ Party, Myrtle, East Providence, 10/4/25
+ Presenting at Pecha Kucha PVD on “Bodies,” Loc TBD, 10/22/25
+ Star Dot Star, Fleet Library, RISD, Fall 2026
Recent Grants & Awards
+ Individual Project Grant, RI Humanities, 2025
+ Sponsorship, National Humanities Conference, 2024
+ Community Engaged Projects Grant, RISCA, 2024
+ Individual Project Grant, RI Humanities, 2023
+ Project Grant, Art, Culture, and Tourism, 2023
+ Individual Project Grant, RI Humanities, 2022
+ Science Sandbox Fellow, New Lab, Brooklyn, 2017
Committees & Community
+ Awesome Foundation Rhode Island, 2024–
+ Silent Partners Providence, 2025–
+ RISD Unbound Planning Committee, 2025
+ Panelist, RISCA, 2024
+ Panelist, RI Humanities, 2023
+ Silent Partners, Brooklyn, 2020–2021
+ Sylvia Rivera Law Project Gala Planning Committee, 2017
+ Brooklyn Museum Gala Steering Committee, 2015
Curatorial, Editorial,
Public Programming (Series)
+ OPEN, Providence, 2025–
+ The Well, East Providence, RI, 2024
+ Permanent Collection, Providence, 2022–2023
+ atac, Framingham, MA, 2022–2023
+ The Joy of Booking, NYC, 2020
+ Ace Hotel interviews, 2016–2019
+ Dear Reader, NYC, 2015–2017
+ Now Dance (for Capri by Night), 2017
+ Ace AIR, NYC, 2014–2019
+ Ace Hotel Gallery, NYC, 2013-2019
+ Downstairs Film Club, NYC, 2018
+ NYFW projects, NYC, 2014–2017
+ Web Safe 2k16, 2016
+ Et Cetera, Brooklyn, 2012
+ PACS Gallery, Brooklyn, 2011–2013
+ Public Assembly, Brooklyn, 2011–2013
+ Coco 66, Brooklyn, 2010
+ The Milky Way, Boston, 2007–2008
+ Punk Rock Flea Market, Boston, 2002–2007
+ N.E.S.T., Boston, 2005–2006
+ Honeypump, Boston, 2002–2006
+ MassArt Eventworks, Boston, 2001–2002
DJ Nights, Parties, Etc
+ Soft Opening, East Providence, RI, 2024–2025
+ Cold Gettin’ Dumb, NYC, 2012–2014
+ Lobby Nights at Ace Hotel, NYC, 2013–2019
+ Steven Alan Holiday Parties, NYC, 2012–2015
+ Love During Wartime
+ Color, Boston, 2007-2008
+ Dynasty, Boston, 2002–2004
Recent Freelance
+ Consulting, The Columbus Cooperative, Providence, Sept 2024
+ Producer, Providence Commemoration Lab, 2025
+ Design and TOV, RozeWood Farms & Estate, Long Island, 2023
+ Design & Web, Providence Commemoration Lab, 2023
+ Marketing, booking, editing, atac, Framingham, 2022-2023
+ Brand and marketing, The Classic Cafe, Providence, 2022
A Few Artworks
+ 144 Darwins
+ Free SVG 12”
+ Pressure Burns
+ Slowly Sinking
+ Sometimes
+ What I’m Trying to Say
+ Who Let Who Let the Dogs Out Out
Solo Exhibitions (art)
+ QUERI, Dye House, Providence, October 2022
+ Pressure Burns with Plants, Bushel, Delhi, NY 2017
+ Used Books, Good Work Gallery, Brooklyn, 2014
+ Linger On, Ace Hotel LA, 2015
+ O.K., Graduate School Gallery, Brooklyn, 2009
Group Shows & Pairings (art):
+ Bait/Switch: Affect & Cause, Boston, 2025
+ Beyond the Photograph, RICPA, 2024
+ Autonomous, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 2024
+ Plural, City Hall, Providence, RI, summer 2023
+ ARTiculate, Rogers Free Library, 2023
+ Ocean State of Mind, Rogers Free Library, 2023
+ Art Odyssey, Rogers Free Library, 2023
+ Inside/Out, Warwick Center for the Arts, 2022
+ Boundaries, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard, MA, 2022
+ Bingo, Russell Janis, Brooklyn, 2021
+ Rock Collection Collection, at City Reliquary, Brooklyn, 2018
+ Collectors Night, NY Fire Museum, 2018
+ MoWLWLTDOO, Spring/Break Art Fair, NYC, 2017
+ Common Sense, A/D/O, Brooklyn, 2017
+ City Reliquary Collectors' Night, New York, 2017
+ 64 Bits, Q.E. Olympic Park, London, 2017
+ Internet! A Retrospective, SPUR, San Fransisco, 2016
+ Luminations, Russel Janis, Brooklyn, 2016
+ Art Basil, Los Angeles, 2015
+ Spring/Break Art Fair, New York, 2015
+ 99c Plus Art Shop II, 99c Gallery, Brooklyn, 2015
+ Frequencies 2, Beverly's 21, NYC, 2014
+ Cinders Gallery 10 Year Show, South Street Seaport, NYC, 2014
+ Brooklyn Zine Fest, Brooklyn, 2013
+ City Reliquary Collectors' Night, Brooklyn, 2013
+ Artyles Salon, Walking Around Wandering, Brooklyn, 2012
+ Microfortnight, Brooklyn, March 2011
+ The Weight of the Words, Stuffinablank, Spain, 2010/11
+ Instructions for Initial Conditions, Parallax, Lincoln NE, 2010
+ Apartment Show: Television City Dreams, 255 Starr St, Brooklyn, 2010
+ On the Grid, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, 2010
+ Buddy Systems, Charlie Horse, Brooklyn, 2010
+ If the Dogs Are Barking, Artists Space, NYC, 2010
+ Big Apple, Clifton Benevento, Manhattan, 2010
+ Happy House, Printed Matter, Manhattan, 2009
+ Summer Series, Mass MoCA, North Adams MA, 2009
+ Apartment Show, Envoy Gallery, Manhattan, 2009
+ Anna Kournikova Deleted…, Dortmund, Germany, 2008"
+ VidFest, Union Sq, Sommerville, 2008
+ Dare 2 Share, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2006