Ben Cain’s practice deals with themes of work, labour, and artistic action. Cain has recurrently explored art’s ambiguous relationship to industry, commodification and immaterial labour. He is interested in how artworks might pose questions about what we think they are doing and, by implication, our role as viewers in their social and cultural production.
Ben Cain lives and works in London and Zagreb. He is a tutor on Fine Art at London Metropolitan University, and Central Saint Martins, London. Cain studied his MA at Jan van Eyck Akademie in 2000, and his BA in Interactive arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK in 1997. Throughout his career Cain has worked with sculpture, installation, theatre, sound, performance, and publication. His work has been exhibited internationally included Manifesta 9, Genk, in 2012, and Weils, Brussels, in 2009. Recently his work has been exhibited several UK institutions including Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Turner Contemporary, Margate, BlueCoat Gallery, Liverpool, The Tetley, Leeds, and Site Gallery, Sheffield.
