BEN
Sculptor
Currently based in London
Benjamin Tong (b. 2000) is a British-born artist, based in London with Hong Kong roots. His work is rooted in the Grotesque Sublime, a duality that contrasts unsettling and horrific imagery with divine, out-of-body experiences. Through creating tension between beauty and discomfort, Tong explores the instability of form and identity, revealing transformation as both terrifying and transcendent.
Growing up between British and Hong Kong identities, Tong finds comfort in liminal spaces—between tradition and modernity, serenity and chaos. His work thus inhabits these thresholds, combining grand narratives of war, religion, folklore and horror.
This sense of perpetual transformation draws from mythology, alchemy, and biological and technological metamorphosis, where destruction and creation exist as part of the same cycle. Creating works with limbs stretching, surfaces breaking open, and flesh giving way to crystalline structures. Through processes of 3D printing, casting and hand sculpting, he crafts work that feels simultaneously otherworldly and grounded in visceral, material realities.
Rather than depicting the human body as a stable, singular entity, Tong constructs figures that are fragmented, hybrid, or in a state of emergence. His figures and objects feel both familiar and alien, inviting the viewer into a world where physicality is unstable, and beauty is inseparable from its own decay.
Instead of offering a singular narrative, Tong’s work presents fragmented narratives thus inviting layered interpretations. He aims to evoke the viewer’s emotional and physical responses—discomfort, awe, fascination- and hopes to create new spaces where contradictions can be held together, rather than resolved.
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Growing up between British and Hong Kong identities, Tong finds comfort in liminal spaces—between tradition and modernity, serenity and chaos. His work thus inhabits these thresholds, combining grand narratives of war, religion, folklore and horror.
This sense of perpetual transformation draws from mythology, alchemy, and biological and technological metamorphosis, where destruction and creation exist as part of the same cycle. Creating works with limbs stretching, surfaces breaking open, and flesh giving way to crystalline structures. Through processes of 3D printing, casting and hand sculpting, he crafts work that feels simultaneously otherworldly and grounded in visceral, material realities.
Rather than depicting the human body as a stable, singular entity, Tong constructs figures that are fragmented, hybrid, or in a state of emergence. His figures and objects feel both familiar and alien, inviting the viewer into a world where physicality is unstable, and beauty is inseparable from its own decay.
Instead of offering a singular narrative, Tong’s work presents fragmented narratives thus inviting layered interpretations. He aims to evoke the viewer’s emotional and physical responses—discomfort, awe, fascination- and hopes to create new spaces where contradictions can be held together, rather than resolved.
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Education:
Royal College of Art - London
MA Sculpture
Central Saint Martins (UAL) - London
BA Graphic Communication Design
Northbrook College (GBMC) - Durrington
UAL Foundation Art and Design
MA Sculpture
Central Saint Martins (UAL) - London
BA Graphic Communication Design
Northbrook College (GBMC) - Durrington
UAL Foundation Art and Design
Press:
June 2025 - RCA MA Degree Show, London
March 2025 - sitnaltA, The Handbag Factory, London
February 2025 - POWER STRUCTURES, D Contemporary, London
June 2024 - Gut Feeling, Sonja Cheng, Hong Kong
June 2022 - Graduate Degree Show 2022, Central Saint Martins, London
March 2025 - sitnaltA, The Handbag Factory, London
February 2025 - POWER STRUCTURES, D Contemporary, London
June 2024 - Gut Feeling, Sonja Cheng, Hong Kong
June 2022 - Graduate Degree Show 2022, Central Saint Martins, London