I’m an American artist and photographer from the Midwest, currently living in Juneau Alaska.
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Solo Exhibitions:
2021 Atomic Island - Alaska State Museum, Juneau AK
2020 The Light That Got Lost - Juneau City Museum, AK
2018 Latent Landscapes - Bivy, Anchorage AK
2015 The Last Road North - Newspace, Portland OR
2015 The Last Road North - Museum of the North at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks AK
2015 The Last Road North - Alaska Humanities Forum, Anchorage AK
2013 The Last Road North - Alaska State Museum, Juneau AK
2009 The Last Road North - Pratt Museum, Homer, AK
2008 You Can’t See Denali From Here - Well Street Art Co., Fairbanks, AK
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez, Sheldon Museum, NE
2017 Augustana College Art Gallery, Art Above 66º 33', Rock Island IL
2017 Alaska State Museum, 10 Years of Alaska Art, Juneau AK
2017 Alaska State Museum, Alaska Positive, Juneau AK
2013 10 Years of Alaskan Art, Alaska State Museum, Juneau AK
2013 Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, AK - Alaska Positive
2013 Itineraries Des Photographes Voyageurs, Bordeaux, France
2012 Alaska State Museum. Juneau, AK - Alaska Positive
2012 Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2012 Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR - Gravitational Pull
2011 Lishui Photo Festival, Lishui, China - American Life
2011 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney - 100 Photographers 100 Portraits
2011 Snap! Orlando Festival, Orlando, FL - 100 Photographers 100 Portraits
2011 New York Photo Festival, Dumbo, NY - 100 Photographers 100 Portraits
2010 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA - America Now
2010 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC - 100 Photographers 100 Portraits
2010 Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NYC - Emerging Artists Auction
2010 Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK - 64th Parallel
2010 The Annex, Fairbanks, AK - Lens Fest
2009 Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NYC - Emerging Artists Auction
2009 Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK - Renew: Fairbanks Cityscapes
2008 Alaska statewide traveling exhibition - Alaska Positive
2008 Alaska statewide traveling exhibition - Rarefied Light
2008 Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK - Northern Disclosure: Acquisitions of Contemporary Art
in the Museum of the North Fine Art Collections, 2005-2008
2007 Gallery Bar, NYC - A Field Guide to the North American Family
2007 White Wall Gallery, Detroit MI - The Deadpan Show
Awards/Grants/Residencies:
2016 Artist Fellowship, Rasmuson Foundation
2016 Individual Artist Grant, Alaska Humanities Forum
2014 Light Work Artist Residency, Syracuse NY
2014 Individual Artist Grant, Alaska Humanities Forum
2013 nominated for Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award
2012 Catalyst Grant, Juneau Arts and Humanities Council
2012 finalist, Critical Mass
2011 Connie Boochever Fellowship
2010 honorable mention, Blurb Photo Book Now
2010 finalist, Critical Mass
2009 Homer PhotoFest, juror’s choice - portfolio competition
2008 Project Grant, Rasmuson Foundation
Collections:
Light Work, Syracuse NY
Museum of the North, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK
Sheldon Museum, Lincoln NE
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno NV
Monographs
The Last Road North, published by Kehrer Verlag, 2015
Atomic Island, published by Fw:books, 2022
Compilation Books and Zines
From Here to the Horizon: In Honor of Barry Lopez, 2023
Creative Alaska, A Ten Year Retrospective of Support of Alaska Artists, 2017
Contact Sheet, Lightwork Annual, 2015
Petty Thieves #3, published by Empty Stretch
Problemata Physica Vol. 1, with essay by Andy Adams, published by Problemata Physica
Collect.Give, contributor catalog
America, Exhibition Catalog, Lishui Photo Festival, China
Collector’s Guide to Emerging Fine Art Photography, published by Humble Arts, NYC
America Now, exhibition catalog, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Mass.
Press, Interviews, Features, etc.:
(last updated 2017)
Photographer's Forum Magazine, May 2017
WIRED, Adak interview with Laura Mallonee, February 2017
Les Others, web feature, 2017
Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities magazine, Winter 2017
Forum, Alaska Humanities Magazine, Fall 2016
The Alpine Review - December 2016
Freeman's Literary Journal - October 2015
Contact Sheet, Lightwork Annual, September 2015
The Great Leap Sideways, interview with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, July 2015
Photo District News, Photo Annual, Best Photobooks of the Year, June 2015
Anchorage Press, The Last Road North, May 2015
Aint-Bad Magazine, online, August 2014
Photo District News, Artist Book Spotlight, article by Conor Risch, August 2014
Photo District News, Fine Art Networking Tips, article by Conor Risch, print, July 2014
Art of Iowa, The Last Road North, interview, online, April 2014
Forum Magazine, The Last Road North, David Holthouse, print, Oct. 2013
MADE Quarterly, Feature: Ben Huff and The Last Road North, Amber Hourigan, print, Sept. 2013
Global Yodel, Alaskan Winters, Jesse Weinberg, online, May 27 2013
Alaska Dispatch, Alaska’s Dalton Highway according to Ben Huff, online, Katie Medred, Feb. 14 2013
Empty Stretch, online, Feb. 8 2013
SVARTA, online, Feb. 8, 2013
It’s Nice That, Into the Wild - Ben Huff takes the journey on The Last Road North, online, Ross Bryant, Dec. 5 2012
Time Lightbox, The Last Road North: Ben Huff’s Alaska, online, Valerie Lapinski, Dec. 4 2012
Loved and Found, The Last Road North, Sabine Cole, print, Nov. 2012
Fraction Magazine, Issue 37, David Bram, online, April 2012
Juneau Empire, Local photographer heads to China to show ‘The Last Road North’, Amy Fletcher, print, Oct. 27 2011
LPV Magazine, Ben Huff - The Last Road North, online Aug. 4, 2011
French Standard Magazine, Alaska’s Last Road North, print, July 2011
PDN, Due North, Conor Risch, print, Feb. 2011
Mull it Over,John Cherry, online, March 2010
Landscape Stories, Snow Blind, online Feb. 2010
Conscientious, Joerg Colberg, online, Feb 4 2010
Bureau of Land Management, Ben Huff Travels the Last Road North, online, Craig Mccaa, Jan. 29 2010
Unless You Will, Issue 9, online, Heidi Romano, Jan 9 2010
50 States Project, Alaska, Stuart Pilkington, 2010
Flak Photo, Andy Adams, online, 2008, 2011
Good Magazine, Picture Show: The Last Road North, online, Aug. 5 2009
NPR, The Picture Show: 50 States Project, online, Claire O’Neill, April 7 2009