Born in 1979, Wausau, WI. Lives and works in Richmond, VA.
EDUCATION
2009 Master of Fine Art, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
2007 Professional Printer Program, Tamarind Institute of Lithography, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2001 Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI
SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
WGW, Rose Easton, London, United Kingdom
2023
CLOSER, Chapter NY, New York, NY
2022
love you, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Scapegoat, Navel LA, Los Angeles, CA (performance)
Sequel, Cressman Center for the Visual Arts, Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY (performance)
Blood from Stone, Chapter NY, New York, NY
2018
Predator, in collaboration with Davida Nemeroff, Public Pool, Los Angeles, CA (performance)
2016
The Descent of Woman, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Anything Can’t Happen, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (performance, solo)
2015
The Human Bookmark, with Thom Donovan, Michael Jon Gallery, Detroit, MI
The Wrapping Room, with Aura Rosenberg, Shoot The Lobster, New York, NY
2014
Come Early and Often, Chapter New York, NY (solo)
The Pelvic Floor, with Davida Nemeroff, Young Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wing & Wing, with Danna Vajda, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON
2013
The Aesthetics of Love, performance, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
G.B.M.F, with Douglas Boatwright, Souterrain, Berlin, Germany
Where the Skin Gets Pinched, with Davida Nemeroff, Young Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Breaking Waves, Taxter and Spengemann, New York, NY (solo)
2010
MADAM presents ACCESSORX, with Mira Dancy, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
3.0, Chapter NY, New York, NY
Delusionarium 5 (Adaptation), Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Majeure Force, Part Two, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Time is Thirsty, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Conspiratorial Aesthetics, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, KY
2018
Liquid Love, curated by Ceci Moss, GAS Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Shut Fuck Up, performance, Symposium on Performance, Academy of Art, Stuttgart, Germany
2017
Daily Trumpet, Instagram artist project, curated by Jonathan Horowitz
HerSelves, The Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Alter Space Mind Control, independant art fair, San Francisco, CA
2016
Take me I’m Yours, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Shifters, curated by Kristin Chappa, Art In General, New York, NY
Dream Song 386, Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON
2015
How To Remain Human, MOCA Cleveland, OH
Survival Is Not Enough, Rodeo, London & Istanbul
Seagulls, curated by Sam Korman, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Autograft, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, New York, NY
Unlike Scene, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Bad Conscience, curated by John Miller, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
2013
XOXO, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Nackter Glaubigen, curated by Davida Nemeroff, Infernoesque, Berlin, Germany
Madam Zazouf, curated by Pati Hertling, New York, NY
2012
How to Download a Boyfriend, curated by Ian Cheng, Badlands Publishing Inc, New York, NY
2011
How I was burned, Oh the mountains, Galeri Marquise Dance Hall, Istanbul, Turkey
2010
NEW YORK, Night Gallery at Participant Gallery, New York, NY
Das Heilmittel, organized by Night Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Brooklyn is Burning, Berkley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Queer Voice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2009
New Prints 2009, International Print Center of New York, New York, NY
The living and the dead, curated by Darren Bader, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014
Invagination: Mother Lover, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Theater, Stuttgart, Germany
2012
Invagination Requires Write to Life, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Invagination: Hunger is Real, H.E.N.S Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Invagination and the death of a hamster: 4 those with and without, Kara Walker Studio, New York, NY
Invagination: A Seagull Presents Woman to Woman, Kara Walk Studio, New York, NY
COLLECTIVES
2016-Present
Wet Herds, Founder of experimental erotica publication
2009-14
HANS EISLER NAIL SALON, Communications Director, New York, NY
2007-13
Holding Her Shape Collects, Co-Founder, New York, NY
2007-Present
Columbia University Graduate Artist & Art Historian Lecture Series, Co-Founder, New York, NY
SELECTED ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
2020
Origin of Love and Other Tales of Degradation, published by Night Gallery
2018
Dear Commission of Monument Avenue, SOURCEBOOK, published with Kyev Bienniale, Ukraine
2016
Contemporary Print Handbook, University Textbook edited by Benedetto, Halmos, NY, May
She Invented Love to Not Die, C Magazine, Toronto CA, June
2015
Burning Blue, romance novel by Benedetto, Badlands Inc, NY, NY, Fall
You are a selfish girl, The Third Rail, Minneapolis MN, Fall
The Other Woman; A Prologue, Michael Jon Gallery Magazine, Miami, FL, Spring
Mom, The Unturned, London, Spring
2014
The Coming of Age, romance novel by Benedetto, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Dec
Horror and Abuse, Flash Art, Nov
2013
Introductory Interview with Carolyn Ramo, Director at Artadia, Burnaway, Atlanta, GA, August
2012
Notes on Looking, Qui Parle, Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, Special Dossier: Affect Theory, Vol. 20, Number 2, Berkley, CA, Spring / Summer
How to Build in a Breakdown, A Tale of Three Cities Journal #2, The Home Issue, London, Spring
2010
Night Papers, Issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 8, Los Angeles, CA, 2010 - 2016
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Simran Tuteja, “Review: Cara Benedetto CLOSER,” Musée Magazine, May 31
2019
Brian Droitcour, “Cara Benedetto,” Art in America, May 1
Nicholas Chittenden Morgan, “Critic’s Pick: Cara Benedetto.” Artforum, January 15
2016
Honora Shea, “Critic’s Pick: Cara Benedetto”, Artforum online, Oct 27
Casey Lesser, “Warsaw’s Daring Young Art Scene is Forging Its Own Path”, Artsy Editorial, Sept 29
2015
Thom Donovan, “if your eyes aren’t here it’s not mine”, Interview with Benedetto, Area Sneaks, Los Angeles, CA,
Spring
2014
Zoë Lescaze, “Sex at a Benefit: Cara Benedetto and Chapter NY Throw ‘Come Early Come Often’”, Gallerist NY,
Sept 23
Cait Munro, “Artist Flips the Conventional “Benefit Gala” on Its Head, Artnet News, Sept 18
2013
Introductory Interview with Carolyn Ramo, Director at Artadia, Burnaway, Atlanta, GA, Aug
Mieke Marple, “This Book Owns No One This Book Owes No One”, The Art Book Review, July 29
Catherine Damman, “Work It, Working Mother: L.A. Summer Performances”, Art in America, July 24
2012
Catherine Wagley, “Big Holes and Female High Jumpers”, LA Weekly, March 4
2011
Kevin McGarry, “Turning a Page: Cara Benedetto at Taxter & Spengemann”, New York Times Magazine, Nov 14
GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2018 Centre Pompadour neo feminist artist residency, Ercourt, France
2017 Research Grant, VCU PAPR Department, Richmond, VA
2016 Dean’s Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Research Grant, VCU PAPR Department, Richmond, VA
2015 Research Grant, VCU PAPR Department, Richmond, VA
2014 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award, New York, NY
2014-13 Cooperation Fellow, Academy Schloss Solitude and Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Stuttgart, Germany
2012 Souterrain Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany
2009 Columbia University SoA Scholarship, Catwalk Residency, Catskill, NY
2008 Columbia University SoA Merit Scholarship, New York, NY
2007-09 Columbia University SoA Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies Fellowship, New York, NY
2006 Tamarind Institute Teaching Grant, Artists Studio, St. Petersburg, Russia