Since the 1980s, visual artist Ben Chase has been creating multi-media artworks and videos that use text and image to invoke the parallel worlds of advertising design and American popular culture. He often uses images to reference consumerism, celebrity status, identity politics, and gender identification. Chase received a B.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, in addition to his studies at the Whitney Independent Studio Program in New York in 1976.
Chase has exhibited his work nationally and abroad. He received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in 1985, a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1983, and residencies at the Dorland Colony in California and MacDowell in New Hampshire. Chase taught at Parsons School of Design in New York from 1985 to 1989. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
