Photo by Sofia Tomé

Ben Fine is a multidisciplinary visual artist who works in painting, animation, film and comics.

Fine comes from a family of artists; his mother a sculptor, his sister a painter, and his great aunt, Rose Fried, a trailblazing female gallery owner of New York’s Pinacoteca Gallery, who notably hosted a solo exhibition for Alice Neel in 1944 — an influential figure for Fine. 

Fine immersed himself in painting in Guanajuato, Mexico, which culminated in a solo exhibition at El Museo Iconográfico del Quijote. Returning to Brooklyn, Fine went on to co-found Studio Iodyne, an animation and design house pioneering the convergence of 2D and traditional stop-motion techniques. Fine’s animation has been featured in over a dozen film projects and has won numerous awards, including for his first stop-motion music video, produced for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 

In 2019, Fine relocated to Jersey City, dedicating himself entirely to painting. Despite the hurdles presented by the pandemic, the ensuing years were remarkably prolific, yielding multiple new bodies of work. One standout project is The Pink Armchair Portraits, an ambitious series uniting twelve distinct paintings of friends, family, and strangers into a single interconnected artwork.

See my commercial work here: benfinework.com

Instagram: @benfinepainting
Comics: @BenFine on medium
Film: vimeo.com/benfine