Resume

1995 Public Commission, Art in Public Places, Convention Center, Austin, TX; Public Commission, Citizens Medical Plaza, Victoria, TX; Public Commission Award, Shorenstien Corporation/Art Central Art Competition, Charlotte, NC; , Artist residency, Context Art Center, Charlotte N.C.

1993 Fellowship, National Endowment For The Arts, Washington, D.C.; Best Neon in Austin Award, Austin Chronicle

1992 Purchase Award, Competition, Sangre de Christo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO, Juror, Larry Bell; Poster Design Award, Association Festival Livre de Jeunesse, La bibliothèque municipale Jacques-Prévert, Cherbourg, France

1989 Grant, City of Austin Cultural Arts Commission, Discovery Hall Science Museum, Austin, TX; Lighting Design Award, Illuminating Engineers Society (IES), San Francisco, CA

1988 Award of Excellence (Paul Waterbury International Outdoor Illuminating Design Award) for Neon Mural #1, Illuminating Engineers Society (IES) , Minneapolis, MN.

University and Museum Speaking, Performance and Workshop engagements

2018 Gallery Talk, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville TX; Spirit House Presentations, Texas State University: Dialog Series, Philosophy and Honors English departments; Powerpoint Presentation & Lecture, Chemistry and Physics Department, Angelo College, San Angelo, TX

2017 Gallery Talk, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art

2016 Moderator with Author - Neltje Doubleday Kings, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX

2015 Gallery “Songtalk” Presentation, 10X10, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

2014 “Songtalk” Presentation, Hallmark Lecture Series, Art and Architecture Departments, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; “songtalk” Concert, Continental Club Gallery SXSW Saturday, Austin, TX

2013 “Songtalk” Performance, The Living Room Presents: Ben Livingston, Austin, TX

2012 “Songtalk” Performance, The Living Room Presents: Ben Livingston, Austin, TX; Recitation about Dyslexia, Rawson Saunders School for Dyslexia, Austin, TX; Concert, Continental Club Gallery SXSW Saturday

2010 Gallery “Songtalk”, Westbank (Laura’s) Library, Austin, TX; Neon Demo/Workshop, Gallery “Songtalk”, East Tour, Clayworks Studio, Austin, TX

2009 Workshop/Lecture, “Songtalk”, Corning Museum of Glass/Glass Arts Society International Conference workshop, Corning, NY; Continental Club Gallery SXSW Saturday exhibit talk and concert, Austin, TX; Neon Demo/Workshop, East Tour, Clayworks Studio, Austin, TX

2008 Lecture, Spirit Houses of SE Asia, Professor Larry Browning, Communications Department, University of Texas, Austin; Neon Demo/Workshop, East Tour, Clayworks Studio, Austin, TX

2005 Lecture, Gallery “Songtalk”, Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Austin, TX

1998 Lecture, Presentation, Shanghai American School, Shanghai, R.O.C.; Gallery “Songtalk” Indigo Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal

1996 Lecture, Gallery “Songtalk”, Austin Convention Center, Art in Public Places, Austin, TX

1995 Lecture/Presentation/Neon Shop Field Trip Demo, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, (RPI) Lighting Research Center, Troy, NY

1994 Concert with Terry Allen and Joe Ely, Jumpstart Theater, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX

1992 Lecture/Presentation, Backstage to the Arts, Austin,TX

1991 Gallery Talk, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX; Lecture/Presentation, Texas A&M University, Lighting and Architecture Department, College Station, TX; Lecture/Presentation, Backstage to the Arts, Austin, TX

Bibliography

2022 Morgan, Jack, “An iconic Austin neon installation lost its home 14 years ago, but now it’s found a new one” Texas Standard, NPR, Austin, TX; The Museum of Neon Art, “MONA Acquires Livingston Mural”, Glendale News Press, Glendale, CA; Campus Circle Staff, “MONA acquires Ben Livingston’s pioneering neon mural for permanent collection” Campus Circle Magazine, Los Angeles, CA; Hoover, Carl. “Ghosts of Waco Implied in Artist’s Spirit House Show at Art Center Waco, Waco Tribune; Ballmann, Avery, “New Art Center exhibit highlights Waco’s history, Baylor Lariat, Waco, TX

2018 Fowler, Gene, “Ben Livingston’s Spirit Houses’ at San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts”, Glasstire Magazine

Carrillo, Phillip M., “Ben Livingston LIVE From the Coachella Valley Art Center”, CV Produccion, Indio, CA

Delaney, Tim, “Spirits of the past come alive in neon art exhibit”, Beeville Picayune

2017 Guzman, Victor, “New SAMFA exhibit features work of Austin-based neon light sculptor”, (KLST), San Angelo,TX,

2015 Cantrell, Mary, “Drawing With Light” Smear Magazine

2014 Jones, Lynda, “Neon artist, songwriter, actor Ben Livingston brings works to Wilhelmi-Holland Gallery”, Corpus Christi Caller Times; Garrett Pitt, “Ben Livingston Interview and Origina Song Performance, Songwriters Across Texas

2013 Barnes, Michael, "Multi-gifted artist adds acting to his resume" Austin American Statesman

2012 Highland, Brittany, "Ben Livingston livens Austin community through music and neon art" The Austinot

2011 Anderson, Dane, "Ben Livingston packs a lot of talent into electrifying arts" Westlake Picayune

2010 “Artist Ben Livingston exhibits at Laura's Library" Westlake Picayune; "Roses are Red... Neon art installation at Bass Concert Hall", Texas Performing Arts, University of Texas

2009 Livingston, Ben "Like a Glowing Stone", Glass Art Society International Conference Journal, Corning, NY Delaney, Tim, "Neon artist shines on stage" Victoria Advocate

2008 Swift, Jim, "Neon Mural #1 coming down" (KXAN)

2005 Brenner, Wayne Allen, "Neon Exodus Ben Livingston's animated neon mural is glowing going gone...", The Austin Chronicle

1995 “Lumen: Arte Con Luz de Turbos de Neón”, Valle de Texas, Reynosa, Mexico; “Neon Nightsticks”, McAllen Monitor; “People and Issues of ‘95: A look at people expected to make news in central Texas in 1995”, Austin American-Statesman; Phillips, Bob, “Ben Livingston: Neon artist”, Video documentary, Texas Country Reporter; “Ben Livingston in the Spotlight”, Dallas/Fort Worth Design magazine; Delaney, Tim, “Acclaimed Artist Brings Neon Home”, Victoria Advocate

1993 "In His Element", Austin American- Statesman; "Ben Livingston, West Bank Artist", West Lake Picayune; "The Electric World of Ben Livingston", Victoria Advocate; Artist Gets Bright Ideas, Austin American- Statesman

1992 "Neon What a Gas", Texas Highways Magazine

1991 "Neon is Artist's Guiding Light", Victoria Advocate; First Orbit by Ben Livingston, Victoria Advocate; "Texas Neon Artist Featured in Exhibit", Big Spring Herald; "Artists Turned On by Neon Featured At Ulrich Museum" The Wichita Eagle; “Neonics Contemporary Light Art” by Maria Ciski, Richard Leslie, Ben Livingston; Barr, Vilma, “The Best of Neon”, Business/Professional Inc., New York, NY

1990 Stern, Rudi, “Contemporary Neon”, Von Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY

1987-88 Swift, Jim, “Beneon”, (KXAN); “Cow Cow Boogie”, Museum of Neon Art, The Today Show, NBC, NY ,NY

Solo Exhibitions

2022. “Spirit Houses, Ghosts, and Memory”, Art Center of Waco, Waco, TX

2018 “Poesta Rising: Beeville's Ghosts, Memories and Spirit Houses”, Beeville Museum of Art, Beeville, TX

2017/2018 “Ben Livingston, Paintings + Neon”, Austin School of Film, Austin, TX; “I Once Was Here: Ghosts and Memories - Featuring works from Ben Livingston's Spirithouse series and a companion exhibit in collaboration with Fort Concho National Historic Landmark”, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX

2014 “Nightsticks”, Wilhelmi – Holland Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX

2010 “Paintings by Ben Livingston”, Westbank (Laura’s) Library, Austin, TX

2009 “Neon at the Continental Club” Continental Club Gallery, Austin, TX

1996 “Interpret”, Context Art Center, Charlotte, NC

1993 “Electric Metaphors”, Milagros Gallery, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX

1992 “Ben Livingston” Southwest Crafts Center, San Antonio, TX; Cowgirls and Flowers, Austin, TX; “Current Work” Austin College, Sherman, TX

1991 “First Orbit”, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX; Jeffreys of Austin, Austin, TX

1990 “Ben Livingston”, Wilhelmi – Holland Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX; “Paintings by Ben Livingston”, Dobie Theater, Austin, TX

1989 "Objects D'ark”, Projex Gallery, Austin, TX

Group Exhibitions

2022 San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts permanent collection exhibit, San Angelo, TX

2019 Ongoing exhibit, Thirty of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art's’ permanent collection on display at the European Union Ambassador's Residence, Washington, D.C.

2014 “Target Texas, Contemporary Texas Studio Glass”, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

2012 "Small Works" Jonestown Art Center, Jonestown, RI

2009 "Luminous Evidence", Exhibit A Gallery, Corning, NY; Continental Club Gallery, Austin, TX

2006 “The People's Gallery”, City Hall exhibit, Austin, TX

2005 Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Austin, TX

1997 “Arc Works”, Dougherty Art Center, Austin, TX

1996 “AIPPXIO”, Art in Public Places, Austin, TX

1993 “Eclectic Electric”, Center of Contemporary Art, Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami Beach, FL

1992 “Screen Show”, Gallery I/0, New Orleans, LA; “Grand Prix De Paris 1992”, Musee de la Sorbonne, Paris France; University of California San Diego Neon II Show, Grove Gallery, San Diego, CA; Light Gallery, Houston, TX; Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, CA

1991 Musee de Bordeaux, Bordeaux and Paris France; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS; "Austin Contemporaries" Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; “Contemporary Neon”, Langman Gallery, Willow Grove, PA; “The CAAT Show”, The University of Texas at Austin - Mebane Gallery, Austin, TX; “Lights Fantastic”, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; “BBQ Show”, Devil Dog Gallery, Houston, TX; “Ten American Neon Artists”, Grove Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA

1987-88 “Cow Cow Boogie”, Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles, CA

1980 “Texas Artists”, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Selected Private Collections

Mick Jagger, NY, NY

John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, Guilford, CT,

Louis Black, Austin, TX

Stephen Antonakos, NY, NY

Terry and Jo Harvey Allen, Santa Fe, NM

The Joffrey Ballet, NY, NY

Gerold Arpino, NY,NY

Motorola, Austin, TX

Randi Shade and Kayla Shell, Austin, TX

Peter Pucci, Mt Kisco, NY

Deborah Green, Austin,TX

Chris Maresh, Austin, TX

Shannon Woods and Chris Bush, Sarco, TX

Jan Lenox Moyer, Troy, NY

Chris Mattsson, Austin, TX

Hans Otto, Salzburg, Austria

Jeffery Skilling, Houston, TX

Chula Reynolds, Austin, TX

Lance Armstrong, Austin, TX

Chief Wilma Mankiller Stillwell, OK

Frances Hellman, Berkeley, CA

Congregation Kol Halev, Austin, TX

Barbara and Brandon Rankin, Lodi, CA

Barbara K and Wolfgang Pracht, Nümbrecht, Germany

Warren Hellman, San Francisco, CA

Far Niente Winery, Oakville, CA

Lindsey Lane, Austin, TX

Camille Lyons-Patterson, Austin, TX

Steve Boster, San Angelo, TX

Howard and Rebecca Taylor, San Angelo, TX

Bob Patterson, Corpus Christi, TX

The Glosserman family, Houston, TX

Eliza Thomas, Austin, TX

Pres Kabacoff and Sallie Ann Glassman, New Orleans, LA

Cathy Kaplan, Chatham, NY

Sidley, Austin, Brown and Wood LLC, NY, NY

Chicago Botanical Gardens, Glencoe, IL

Bibliotheque Municipal Jaques Prevert, Cherbourg, France

Temple B’Nai Israel, Kalamazoo, MI

Permanent Public Collections

The Museum of Neon Art, Glendale, CA

University of Houston, Houston and Victoria, TX

San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX

The University of Texas, Bass Concert Hall, Austin, TX

The Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX

Citizen’s Memorial Hospital, Victoria, TX

Spirit Square Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX