Benjamin Tong (b. 2000) is a British artist with Hong Kong roots. His work explores the unstable boundaries between beauty and horror, play and violence, the sacred and the absurd. Drawing from childhood media, mythology, and war imagery, his sculptures collide the fantastical with the grotesque, creating fragmented worlds that feel both familiar and alien. Viewers are invited into spaces where contradictions are held together rather than resolved.

Growing up between British and Hong Kong identities, Tong finds comfort in liminal spaces between tradition and modernity, serenity and chaos. Central to his practice is a fascination with transformation: figures are rarely whole or stable, echoing mythological cycles of destruction and rebirth as well as contemporary images of technological and biological flux.

Rather than offering definitive narratives, Tong aims to provoke a visceral response, whether awe, discomfort, or fascination, while leaving space for viewers to construct their own readings.

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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

November 2025 - Ephemeral Tensions, Galleria Objets, London
November 2025 - monster farm, Something Different, ANNEX, London
June 2025 - RCA MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
March 2025 - sitnaltA, The Handbag Factory, London
February 2025 - POWER STRUCTURES, D Contemporary, London
February 2025 - ‘What a lovely day... for an exorcism’, Sculpture Studio Project Space, Royal College of Art, London
December 2024 - FESTUS, Hanger Space, Royal College of Art, London
June 2024 - Gut Feeling, Sonja Cheng, Hong Kong
June 2022 - Graduate Degree Show 2022, Central Saint Martins, London