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Trudy Benson was born in Richmond, Virginia

She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.



  Presentation


One of the reasons I fell in love with painting was the sensation of walking into a room and being able to smell the paint. Surface is so important to me for the same reason, there is a physical presence that is immediately apparent when you are actually in a space with a painting. I also enjoy using colors and color combinations that can’t quite be photographed the same way that our eyes see the color IRL. It’s almost a fetish to have so many sensory qualities in an essentially 2-D object, especially these days when almost anything can be experienced virtually. The idea that a painting, which at one time was a virtual experience, a window, can now be decidedly phenomenal is something that has driven the work for years.


Trudy Benson




  Education


2010  MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA

2007  BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA



  Awards and Grants


2014  Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Nominee

2012  Painting Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts



  Permanent Collection


Aishti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Arts, Peekskill, USA

Selected Artworks
Blat
Blat
2016
155.0 x 168.0 cm / 61.0 x 66.1 in
Blue Path
Blue Path
2017
81.0 x 94.0 cm / 31.9 x 37.0 in
Garden in Motion
Garden in Motion
2017
195.6 x 203.2 cm / 77.0 x 80.0 in
Smoke + Fire
Smoke + Fire
2016
155.0 x 168.0 cm / 61.0 x 66.1 in
Yellow and Black Fret
Yellow and Black Fret
2016
110.0 x 120.0 cm / 43.3 x 47.2 in
Hot Flora
Hot Flora
2017
154.9 x 167.6 cm / 61.0 x 66.0 in
Fix
Fix
2020
61.0 x 61.0 cm / 24.0 x 24.0 in
For Arp
For Arp
2020
127.0 x 116.8 cm / 50.0 x 46.0 in
High Horizon
High Horizon
2020
127.0 x 116.8 cm / 50.0 x 46.0 in
Green Tangle
Green Tangle
2020
154.9 x 167.6 cm / 61.0 x 66.0 in
Videos
Trudy Benson - Cosmicomics
Trudy Benson - Cosmicomics
Trudy Benson - Garden in Motion
Trudy Benson - Garden in Motion
Trudy Benson - Garden in Motion, Paris
Trudy Benson - Garden in Motion, Paris
Exhibitions In Our Galleries
All Exhibitions


Solo shows


2024


Nothing Net, Ceysson & Bénétière, Lyon, France

XSTATIC, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, USA


2023

Plastic Paintings, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

Trudy Benson, Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, USA


2021

WAVES, SUNNY NY, New York, USA

Hard Color Heat Wave, Massif Central, Brussels, Belgium

WAVES, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY

/ Z / Z /, Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Etienne, France


2020

Join, LOYAL, Stockholm, Sweden


2018

Cuts, Paints, team(bungalow), Venice, USA

Closer Than They Appear, Lyles & King, New York, USA 

Infinite Spiral, Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece


2017

TT52, with Yann Gerstberger, Lyles & King, New York, USA

Garden in motion, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France

Ribordy contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland


2016

Comsicomics, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg

Spooky Action at a Distance, Half Gallery, New York


2015

With Russell Tyler, Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, USA

Shapes of Things, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, USA

With Russell Tyler, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, USA


2013

PAINT, Horton Gallery, New York, USA


2011

Actual/Virtual, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York,USA


2010

Space Jam, Freight + Volume, New York, USA


Group Shows


2025

Soft Chaos, Ceysson & Bénétière, Koerich, Luxembourg

XXS, curated by Wendy White, Brintz + COUNTY, Palm Beach, USA


2024

The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA

All Bangers, All The Time, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, USA

Holiday, Harper’s, New York, USA

Artists in Residence 2023, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna, Austria

Dis/Order, with Russell Tyler, Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit, USA


2023

(Mostly) Women (Mostly) Abstract, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, USA

I AM THE PASSENGER, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY

Curated By: Nazif Lopulissa, m.simons, Amsterdam, the Netherlands


2022

Why I Make Art, curated by Brian Alfred, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, USA

Sunrise/Sunset, SUNNY NY, New York, USA


2021

Her Dark Materials, curated by Philly Adams, at Wolverton Works Virtual Art Museum, Buckinghamshire, UK

Phase 1, East Hampton Hole, East Hampton, USA

Light, curated by Rico Gatson, at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, USA

Path of the Storm, SUNNY NY, New York, USA

Group Show, RIBORDY THETAZ, Geneva, Switzerland


2020

Accrochage, RIBORDY THETAZ, Geneva, Switzerland

True Lines, Over the Influence, Los Angeles, USA

100!, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden


2019

Rise, RIBORDY THETAZ, Geneva, Switzerland

Le ciel, l’eau, les dauphins, la vierge, les flics, le sang des nobles, l’ONU, l’Europe, les casques bleus, Facebook, Twitter, Forde, Geneva, Switzerland


2018

Set Adrift on Memory Bliss, Pablo's Birthday, New York, USA

Group Exhibition, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

10 Years in Luxembourg, Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff, Luxembourg

MOONDOG, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, USA


2017

Come as You Are, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, USA 

Post Analog Painting II, The Hole, New York, USA

Unobstructed Views, Hawkins Ferry House, Grosse Point Shores, USA

Pro forma : context and meaning in Abstraction, curated by Vittorio Colaizzi, Work Release, Norfolk, USA


2016

Bodacioussss, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA

Re-Planetizer, Regina Rex, New York, USA

Splotch, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA

The City & The City, Denny Gallery, New York, USA

Non Figuration - un regain d'Intérêt?, Centre d'art, Meymac, France

9999, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, USA

Image Tech: Making Pictures in a Post-Digital Age,curated by Mauro Zamora, The Art Gallery, College of New Jersey, Ewing, USA


2015

PaintersNYC, Páramo, Guadalajara ; Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico

Feed the Meter, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Wandhaff, Luxembourg

Let's Go Away for A while, curated by Erik den Breejen and Maria Calandra, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, USA

Swingers WKND, curated by Tribble & Mancenido, Brooklyn, USA

Anti-Fair, Harper's Books popup ,Carlyle Hotel, New York, USA

Post-Analog Painting, The Hole, New York, USA


2014

Go With the Flow, The Hole, New York, USA

Sunscreen, James Graham & Sons, New York, USA

Abstract America Today, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom

OK Great Thanks This Is So Ridiculous, ACME, LA ; DCKT, New York, USA

This One's Optimistic: Pincushion, New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, USA

Material Images, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, USA

The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, USA


2013

Merge Visible, Horton Gallery, New York, USA

SPLAZITCH, Side Effects Gallery, Brooklyn, USA

Paint On, Paint Off, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, USA

Windows, Denny Gallery, New York, USA

XSTRACTION, The Hole, New York, USA

Paradox Maintenance Technicians, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA


2012

Aggro Crag, Bosi Contemporary, New York, USA

Where My Cones At?, curated by Ryan Travis Christian, Double Break, San Diego, USA

Pratt Alumni Painters, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA

Spindles, curated by Adam Mignanelli, Kinfolk Studios, Brooklyn, USA

WET WET, curated by the BLAAAHg, Brooklyn, USA

Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation New Acquisitions and Prints, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, USA

Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, USA


2010

Behind the Green Door, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, USA

Pratt MFA Exhibition, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY


2009

Fervor, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, USA

Down Below It's Chaos, ArtJail, New York, USA

A Piece, LABA Artists' Space,14th Street Y, New York, USA


2008

Refinement, Aswoon Gallery, Brooklyn, USA

Studio 23 Presents LOL the CommandP BFF 4EVA Portfolio, Transmission Gallery, Richmond, USA

Transmission Introduces Studio 23, Transmission Gallery, Richmond, USA


2007

24/7 Fire in the Hole, Plant Zero Art Center, Richmond, USA

Bibliography
Selected Bibliography


2016
Colaizzi, Vittorio, Joan Thorne, Analytic Ecstasy, Woman's Art Journal, summer 2016
Herriman, Kat, How Five New York Art Couples Share Space, New York Times T Magazine, February 2016


2015
Campbell, Andrianna, Frank Stella, Artforum.com, November 27, 2015.
Hogue, Chelsea, Summer is Over and We're All Going to Die, Autre Magazine, September 23, 2015.
Kopel, Dana, Tangible Textures: Trudy Benson and Russell Tyler at Retrospective Gallery, Modern Painters, November 2015.
Maine, Stephen, Trudy Benson, ARTnews, Summer 2015.
Trudy Benson: Shapes of Things, Time Out New York, April 1, 2015.
Goleas, Janet, Shed a Little, Blinnk.blogspot.com, June, 21, 2015.
Johnson, Paddy and Corinna Kirsch, We Went to Lisa Cooley and Thierry Goldberg: Good Painting, Bad Painting, ArtFCity.com, April 30, 2015.
Frederick, Jeff, Exhibition Review: Trudy Benson "Shapes of Things" Lisa Cooley, Wallscrawler.blogspot.com, May 1, 2015.


2014
Johnson, Halley, 11 Must-See Works at NADA Miami Beach, Artsy.net, December 5, 2014.
Consumer Reports: Trudy Benson, ARTnews, November 19, 2014.
Grayson, Kathy, Kathy Grayson's Punk Girl Power Painters, i-D Magazine, August 22, 2014.
Indrisek, Scott, 5 Must-See Gallery Shows: "Go With the Flow" and More, ArtInfo.com, August 7, 2014.
Micchelli, Thomas, The Familiar, the Boisterous, the Unexpected, and the Absurd, Hyperallergic.com, August 2, 2014.
One Burning Question with Trudy Benson, NY Arts, June 6, 2014.
Luke, Ben, Abstract America Today, exhibition review, London Evening Standard, May 28, 2014.
This Week's Best New Art, Time Out London, May 27, 2014.
Artist of the Week: Trudy Benson, LVL3media.com, February 10, 2014.


2013
Rosenberg, Karen, Trudy Benson: Paint, The New York Times, May 9, 2013.
Rivers, Tina, Windows, Critic's Picks, Artforum.com, November 19, 2013.
Goings On About Town: Short List, The New Yorker, June 3, 2013.
Brito, Maria, In the Studio with Trudy Benson, outtherenyc.com, December 14, 2013.
Stopa, Jason, Trudy Benson and the Nature of Paint, Whitewall Magazine, May 31, 2013.
Michelli, Thomas, Running the Gamut: Trudy Benson's Flamboyant Restraint, Hyperallergic, May 4, 2013.
The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss, Art in America, May 2, 2013.
Trudy Benson: Digital You Can Touch, Lancia Trendvisions, April 10, 2013.
Stopa, Jason, Whitehot Watch: April 2013, Whitehot, April 2013.
Chapline, Jonathan, Trudy Benson - Navy Yard, #ffffff Walls, 2013.
Markus, Liz, Liz Markus Art Diary April 28 2013, Huffington Post Blog, April 28, 2013.
Johnson, Paddy, 8 Great Brooklyn Artists Under 30, The L Magazine, March 2013.
Studio Cats, Modern Painters, February 2013.

2012
Cover Image: NY Arts, Vol. 19, Fall 2012.
40 Under 40: Pratt's Rising Stars, PRATTFOLIO, Fall/Winter 2012.
Crowley, Huey, Studio Visit: Trudy Benson and Russell Tyler, Beautiful Decay, December 25, 2012.
Cox, Steven, In Dialogue: Trudy Benson Interview, Hunted Projects, December 2012.
Cover image, NY Arts Vol. 19, Fall 2012.
40 Under 40: Pratt's Rising Stars, PRATTFOLIO, Fall/Winter 2012.
Keeting, Zachary, Trudy Benson, September 2012, Gorky's Granddaughter, September 10, 2012.
Meier, Allison. One-Line Reviews: Our Staff's Pithy Takes On "This Nameless Spectacle," "The Feverish Library," And Other Ga Shows, September 7, 2012.
Indrisek, Scott. Trudy Benson: Studio Visit, Modern Painters Daily, September 4, 2012.
Meier, Allison. Three Summer MFA Shows Tackle Painting and its Discontent, Hyperallergic, July 26, 2012.
On the Up: Contemporary Artists We're Tipping for Success, Trudy Benson, Modern Edition, June 2012.
The Digital Canvas: New Technology and 21st Century Painting, Modern Edition, May/June 2012.
Harnish, Tracey. Not Dead Yet: Ten Questions - This Week - Trudy Benson, Huffington Post, March 8, 2012.
Scott, Ron. Contemporary Painting at Oakland University Gallery, art HOPPER, January 18, 2012.
Wolin, R. Joseph. Trudy Benson: Review, ARTnews, January 2012.
Indrisek, Scott. Reviews In Brief: New York, Modern Painters, January 2012.


2011
Keltner, Daniel Levis. Actual Virtual: The works of Trudy Benson, Precipitate Journal of the New Environmental Imagination, December 2011.
Stauffer, Tema. Trudy Benson; the Making of Actual/Virtual,The Mana Log, October 2011.
Vargas, Mauricio. Interview : Trudy Benson, the BLAAAHg, October 12, 2011.
Baker, R.C. Fall Arts: Art Picks, Village Voice, September 7, 2011.


2010
Brennan, Michael. In Conversation: Michael Brennan Interviews, Trudy Benson, NY Arts, Fall 2010.
Trudy Benson "Space Jam", New York Art Beat, May 18, 2010.
Kalm, James. Trudy Benson at Freight + Volume, The James Kalm Report, May 17, 2010.
Nathan, Emily. Material Girl, ArtSlant, May 16, 2010.
Indrisek, Scott. Trudy Benson, Modern Painters, May 13, 2010.
Space Jam, Fecal Face Dot Com, May 2010.
Selected Press