Ben Woolfitt

Ben Woolfitt, Modernist and Post-Modernist Painter, was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, 1946. Since 1965, Woolfitt has lived in Toronto. In 1972 founded Woolfitt’s School of Contemporary Painting, where he taught until 1979. He established Woolfitt’s Fine Art Supplies in 1978, an international distributor of artist materials, which he managed until it, was sold in 2014. In 2012 Woolfitt purchased a home and studio in New York’s East Village where he lives and works for 6 months of the year. Woolfitt founded modern.toronto, a museum dedicated to the exhibition of non-objective painting in 2017. Woolfitt has had 25 solo exhibitions and 15 group exhibitions in Canada, Japan, Thailand and the USA. His work has been featured in books and essays by Donald Kuspit, Kenworth Moffett, Siba Das among others. His paintings are in numerous museums and corporate and private collections internationally, including Canadian collections at The MacLaren Art Centre, Hart House at the University of Toronto, The Remai Modern and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.