ARTIST
STATEMENT
Ben Sheppee's practice examines language as a visual and cultural system, treating written form as both communicative structure and material record shaped by movement, exchange, and loss. Working across immersive installation, sculpture, print, and generative digital environments, his research explores how meaning shifts as legibility becomes unstable.
BIOGRAPHY
Ben Sheppee (b. 1978, Bristol, UK) is a visual artist based in London whose work sits at the intersection of abstract typography, moving image, and large-scale public presentation. He treats alphabets as cultural artefacts that evolve, fragment, and recombine over time, drawing on research into historical and endangered writing systems from across the globe.
He has lived and worked in California, Japan, and France, and currently works from his studio in London's Design District. In 2003 he founded Lightrhythm Visuals, a pioneering platform that published 240 films by more than 70 artists from five continents. In 2018 he founded Observatory, offering art direction to brands and cultural organisations through experiential content.
His fine art practice focuses on creating accessible visual experiences that invite broad audiences to engage intuitively, without reliance on narration or explanation.
EXHIBITIONS SCREENINGS
PUBLICATIONS
Exhibition - 9 Earths Summit - P3 Ambika 2025
Exhibition - Side by Side - Aures London 2025
Exhibition - Work-flow - London Stock Exchange - 2025
Publication - 101 Contemporary Artists - 2025
Screening - Times Square Arts - New York 2023
Publication - Flux Magazine - 2023
Exhibition - Sao Paulo 2023
Exhibition - Holy Art - London 2023
Publication - Print It - UK 2022
Exhibition - Side by Side - Design District 2021
Exhibition - Drawdown - Kings Lynn 2020
Screening - Picasso - National Portrait Gallery, London 2017
Performance - Splice Festival - Rich Mix 2017
Performance - La Gaite Lyrique, Paris 2014
Exhibition - Hybrid Art, Moscow 2011
Screening - Yota Space - St Petersburg 2010
Exhibition - Hangar 1018, Los Angeles 2005
Performance - Optica, Gijon, 2005
Screening - Tate Britain, London 2004
Performance - ICA, London, 2004
Screening - Synasthesiologists, New York, (2004)
Exhibition - Window licker, Berlin 2004
Exhibition - SOMA Arts Gallery, San Francisco 2002
Performance - Drum Machine Museum, San Francisco 2002
Screening - SFMOMA, San Francisco 2002