Ben Kinmont is an artist, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller living in Sebastopol, California. His work is concerned with the value structures surrounding an art practice and what happens when that practice is displaced into a non-art space. Since 1988, his work has been project-based, attentive to archiving and blurring the boundaries of artistic production, publishing, and curatorial practices. He has recently taught courses in the Social Practices Program at the California College of Arts, and organized various workshops with students from the École nationale des Beaux-Arts in France (Angers, Valence, and Bourges). Exhibitions include those at Air de Paris, ICA in London, CNEAI in Chatou (Paris), the 25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana (Slovenia), the FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon in Montpellier (France), Documenta 11 in Kassel, and Les Abattoirs in Toulouse (France). He is also the founder of the Antinomian Press, a publishing enterprise which supports project Art and Ephemera.
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