BEN VIDA is a composer and artist based in New York. He has been an active member of the international experimental music community for two decades. In the mid-1990s Vida co-founded the minimalist quartet Town & Country and released solo records under the moniker Bird Show. He has released records with numerous labels including Alku, PAN, Shelter Press and Kranky. His work has been featured in Artforum, Modern Painters, The Paris
Review, The New York Times, Art Review, Wire Magazine, The Creators Project, WIRED Magazine among others. In addition to his musical endeavors, Vida has exhibited his work as a contemporary artist with solo exhibitions at Lisa Cooley Gallery, NYC and 356 S. Mission Rd, LA. His pieces have been presented widely in venues such as the Guggenheim, New York; Centro Pecci in Prato, Italy; STUK in Leuven, Belgium; the MCA, Chicago; The ICA, London; The Kitchen, New York; Performa Biennial, New York; EMPAC, Troy, NY; Leap Gallery, Berlin; Lampo, Chicago; Cricoteka Museum, Kraków, Poland; The Artist’s Institute, New York; the Sydney Opera House; LiveArtsWeeks at Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna; Borderline Festival, Athens, Greece and the Royal Festival Hall as part of the Meltdown Festival in London. In spring 2018 Vida premiered And So Now, a work for vocal quartet and electronics at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York.