Ben Ali Ong

Ben Ali Ong is an artist working predominantly across photography, video and mixed media.

Choosing to work solely in black and white, his brooding photographs are defined by their use of dream-like imagery. Often blurry, grainy and scratched – Ben’s pictorial choices appear to be made completely at random, creating a disjointed and surreal narrative.

Ben has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions for over a decade and has been a finalist in many prestigious photographic awards including the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, the Redlands Art Prize, the Olive Cotton Photographic Prize, the Moran Photographic Prize and the Blake Prize.

His work is held in numerous corporate and private collections such as the Macquarie Bank Art Collection. 

Ben has been represented by leading gallery's such as United, Tim Olsen Gallery, Boutwell Draper, and is now a part of Artereal Gallery in Sydney's line up of represented artists. 

Ben completed a Diploma of Photography in 2004 and since then has worked full time as a photographer, artist, and technician. From 2004-2017 he worked with master printer Warren Macris as a technician for some of Australia's leading Photo Artists and Educators, with well over a decades experience in both analogue and digital imaging. Currently, he works at Rewind Photo Lab primarily as a Fine Art Inkjet printer and scanner.