Howard Ben Tré

Howard Ben Tré (born May 13, 1949) is an American artist and sculptor known for his large-scale cast glass sculptures. He has become increasingly known lately for his public space artwork.

Ben Tré was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1949; he now lives in Providence, Rhode Island. He trained at Portland State University, Oregon, and Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.

Howard Ben Tré's work is in museum and public collections worldwide. These include the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Corning Museum of Glass in New York; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan, among others.

In 1990, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. presented a ten-year retrospective of his work that traveled nationally. In 1994, his sculptures, drawings, and works on paper were exhibited by the Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain in Nice.

Sculptures and works on paper created between 1991 and 1995 were the subject of the recent traveling exhibition organized by the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and the University of Richmond.

Public artwork in plazas and streetscapes are part of his recent work, in places as diverse as Minneapolis and Warrington, England.