Jane Benson
Photo by Brad Ogbonna
Jane Benson is a multidisciplinary artist known for her politically immersive, research-based approach. Benson's work spans sculpture, print, sound, and digital media that reflects on contemporary ways of being.
Destruction is often her initial gesture to destabilize how the everyday is defined. She shreds flags, bifurcates string instruments, and excises text from books, reconfiguring them into questioning re-assemblies that subvert classical forms of categorization to encourage new ways of looking and seeing through her regenerative practice. Identifying as a dyslexic woman immigrant, Benson looks to an alternative translation of reality, outside of accepted dialectical, social, and cultural norms, as an empowering form.
Brooklyn, NY
Born 1973, Thornbury, UK
1997 MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1994 BA Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland