Will Benedict

Between different media, Will Benedict works within a process of deconstruction, hybridization, and recomposition of the image, engaging critically and often humorously with popular media, commercial production, and advertising, creating a kind of semiotics of consumption and its symbology. Benedict’s paintings and collages frequently are structured as reframings, “interiors inside interiors, windows inside windows, doorways that you can go through,” he says, which complicates his works and instills in them a structure that lends itself to humour and critique.

Will Benedict (b. 1978, Los Angeles, USA) currently lives and works in Paris. Benedict’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art (Copenhagen, 2024); Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva, 2022); Balice Hertling (Paris, 2018 and 2014); Fondazione Giuliani (Rome, 2017); Artspace (Auckland, 2015); and Bergen Kunsthall (Bergen, 2014); Halle für Kunst (Lüneberg, 2013), among others. 

He has also participated in group exhibitions at venues including Fondazione MAST (Bologna, 2024); Sifang Art Museum (Shanghai, 2022); Balice Hertling (Paris, 2022); Biennial of the Moving Image (Geneva, 2021); Belgrade Biennial (Belgrade, 2021); Art Sonje Center (Seoul, 2019); MMK (Frankfurt, 2018); the 9th Berlin Biennial (Berlin, 2016); 18th Fondation Pernod Ricard Prize (Paris, 2016); the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts (Ljubljana, 2015). His recent performance, “Pandemonium” (curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou), was held at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Paris, 2023). Benedict has also previously worked in curation.