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); 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.
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Will Benedict
Hello Greedy Citizens May 6 - Jun 7, 2025Balice Hertling is pleased to announce « Hello Greedy Citizens », the third solo show by Will Benedict at the gallery, opening May 6, through June 7, 2025. Working across...Read more -
Exposition N°120 (maybe)
Oct 15 - Nov 19, 2022 -
On the Backlot
Jul 27 - Sep 27, 2019 -
Will Benedict
New Video and Painting Mar 22 - Apr 28, 2018 -
Will Benedict
Apr 18 - Jun 21, 2014
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Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen: The Restaurant Season 2
Solo Show : Den Frie Centre of Contemporary, Copenhagen, Danmark Oct 5, 2024 Read more -
Will Benedict: Dialogue of the Dogs
Solo show: Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland Oct 15, 2022 Read more -
Will Benedict: Idéal Pain
Solo show: Basement Roma, Rome, Italy May 24, 2022 Read more