heather benjamin
Née en 1989 à New York City, où elle vit et travaille.
Heather Benjamin a obtenu un BFA en gravure de la Rhode Island School of Design, en 2016. Depuis 2009 elle publie ses dessins dans des zines et des livres d'artiste. Toujours active dans sa pratique de l’auto-édition, elle a su diversifier ses médiums pour créer des dessins et des peintures à plus grande échelle, ainsi que des animations, des céramiques et des textiles. En alternant violence et sensualité dans son art, Heather Benjamin défend un féminisme où le corps de la femme est glorifié sous toutes ses formes pour mieux être démystifié, reflétant ses racines dans la culture punk et DIY. Ses dessins sont souvent des autoportraits prenant la forme de créatures hybrides.
En tant que curatrice, elle a organisé des e xpositions de groupe à Andrew Edlin (NYC), New Image Art (LA) et 182 Ave C (NYC). Elle a exposé son travail à la fois aux Etats-Unis et internationalement, notamment à Jeffrey Deitch, Muddguts, Miami Art Basel, NADA Chicago, Mana Contemporary, ou encore Invisible Exports.
voir l'exposition Mother All I Did (...)
voir l'exposition Contact
voir l'exposition DDessin
voir l'exposition Demon's Tears
Born in 1989 in New York City, where she lives and works.
Heather Benjamin graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016 with a BFA in Printmaking. Benjamin began self-publishing zines and artist books of her drawings in 2009. Since then, she has maintained her bookmaking and self-publishing practices while simultaneously branching out into making larger scale drawings and paintings, as well as animating, working with ceramics and textiles. By alternating violence and sensuality in her art, Heather Benjamin defends a feminism where the woman's body is glorified in all its forms to better be demystified, reflecting her roots in punk and DIY culture. Her drawings are often self-portraits taking the shape of hybrid creatures.
She has curated group shows at Andrew Edlin (NYC), New Image Art (LA), and 182 Ave C (NYC). She has exhibited her work extensively both nationally and internationally at Jeffrey Deitch, Muddguts, Miami Art Basel, NADA Chicago, Mana Contemporary, Invisible Exports, to name a few.
see Mother All I Did (...) exhibition
see Contact exhibition
see DDessin exhibition
see Demon's Tears exhibition
CV
SOLO SHOWS
2021
● Demon’s Tears, Bim Bam
Gallery, Paris, France
(upcoming) 2020
● Slit, Underdogs Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
● Invention of Hysteria, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (forthcoming)
2019
● Burden of Blossom,
Commune, Tokyo, JP
● Cowgirl Dental Floss, These
Days, Los Angeles, CA
2018
● Cavegirl Monologue, Muddguts, Brooklyn, NY
2017
● Death of a Tail, Dress Shop, Brooklyn, NY
2015
● Hard Feeling Girl, STREAM Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP SHOWS
2020
● A Peripheral Reverie,
Penske Projects, Los
Angeles, CA
● Start Somewhere, Penske
Projects/Voltz Clarke, New
York, NY
● Crescendo, New Image Art,
Los Angeles, CA
● Envelope, Drawer
NYC/Essex Flowers, New
York, NY
● All of Them Witches, Jeffrey
Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
2019
● Crying, Soma Gallery,
Melbourne, AU
● Pink Moon, Worship
Gallery, Seoul, KR
● Hard Sweat, Faultline, Los
Angeles, CA
● A Fairly Secret Army, Wild
Palms, Düsseldorf, DE
● Playdate, New Image Art,
Los Angeles, CA
● Heather Benjamin / Shona
McAndrew, Galerie
Manqué, Brooklyn, NY
● Heather Benjamin / Shona
McAndrew, Galerie
Manqué, Brooklyn, NY
● Heather Benjamin & Justin
Cole Smith: New Works,
Mana Contemporary, Jersey
City, NJ
2018
● SKINS, Greenpoint Terminal
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
● Bathers, Planthouse, New
York, NY
● Maiden Form, Andrew
Edlin, New York, NY
● Mirror of Venus, New Image
Art, Los Angeles, CA
● A Tree Falls In The Woods,
Hashimoto Contemporary,
San Francisco, CA
2017
● Brooklyn Dirty Book Fair,
Point Green, Brooklyn, NY
● Sort & Repeat, Good Mother
Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016
● Weird Women Who Draw, Windhorse Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2015
● Dojob, Ladybug House, San
Francisco, CA
● Frontal Lobotomy, Tender
Trap, Brooklyn, NY
2013
● Die A Sad Death: Heather Benjamin & Alexander Heir, Watdafac Gallery, Madrid, SP
EDUCATION
2016
● Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Printmaking
MONOGRAPHIC BOOKS
2019
● Heather Benjamin, Zines 2009-2019, self published
2018
● Heather Benjamin, Cavegirl Monologue, Sacred Bones
CURATORIAL
2020
● Crescendo, New Image Art,
Los Angeles, CA
● Fate In A Pleasant Mood,
182 Ave C, New York, NY
2019
● Playdate, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018
● Maiden Form, Andrew Edlin, New York, NY