Lives and works in Richmond, VA.
B. 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 Trainer Program, Tamarind Institute of Lithography, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2001
Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI
SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
WGW, Rose Easton, London, UK
2023
CLOSER, Chapter NY, New York, NY
2022
Love You, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Blood from Stone, Chapter NY, New York
2016
The Descent of Woman, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Human Bookmark, Michael Jon Gallery, Detroit, MI
2014
Come Early and Often, Chapter NY, New York
Wing & Wing (w Danna Vajda), Art Metropole, Toronto, CA
The Pelvic Floor (w Davida Nemeroff), Young Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
G.B.M.F. (w Douglas Boatwright), Souterrain, Berlin, DE
Where the Skin Gets Pinched (w Davida Nemeroff), Young Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Breaking Waves, Taxter and Spengemann, New York, NY
2010
MADAM presents ACCESSORX (w Mira Dancy), Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
GROUP SHOP, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY
2021
3.0, Chapter NY, New York, NY
Delusionarium 5 (Adaptation), Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019-20
Time is Thirsty, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
2019
Conspiratorial Aesthetics, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
2018
Liquid Love, Gas / The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
2017
HerSelves, The Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, ES
2016
Take me (I’m Yours), Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Shifters, curated by Kristin Chappa, Art in General, New York, NY
Dream Song 386, Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA
2015
Anything Can’t Happen, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
Seagulls, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
How to Remain Human, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2014
Autograft, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, New York, NY
Unlike Scene, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE
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, DE
Cara Benedetto, Whitney Claflin, Georgia Sagri, and Diego Singh, curated by Pati Hertling, Le Potage de Madam Zazouf, 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, Marquise Dance Hall, Istanbul, TR
2010
NEW YORK, Night Gallery at Participant Inc, New York, NY
Das Heilmittel, Night Gallery at Economy, Frankfurt, DE
Brooklyn is Burning, Berkley Art Museum, Berkley, CA
Queer Voice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Idea for the Here and Now, curated by Transformazium, Christina Ray Gallery, New York, NY
Forte, Audio Visual Arts, New York, NY
2009
New Prints 2009, International Print Center, New York, NY
The living and the dead, curated by Darren Bader, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY
Columbia University SoA MFA Thesis Show, curated by Joao Ribas, Fischer Landau Center, New York, NY
The Practice of Joy Before Death, curated by Arlen Austin, Scaramouche Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Columbia University SoA MFA First Year Show, curated by Regine Basha, Columbia University, New York, NY
PERFORMANCES
2019
Scapegoat, Navel, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Predator, with Davida Nemeroff, Public Pool, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Angel of History Toast, Night Gallery, Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
2016
Anything Can’t Happen, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
2015
How to Remain Human, curated by Rose Bouthillier, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2014
Come Early and Often, Chapter NY, New York, NY
2013
This Book Owns No One, Le Potage de Madame Zazouf, New York, NY
SCREENINGS AND READINGS
2023
Mask of the Red Death at the UDC, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, VA (reading)
Leave, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (screening)
Leave, created by Cara Benedetto and Liang Luscombe, Artists Space, New York, NY (screening)
2018
How I skipped the feminist theory workshop and died a cat instead, Academy of Art, Stuttgart, DE (lecture performance)
2014
Autograft, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, New York, NY (lecture performance)
2013
The Aesthetics of Love, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (lecture performance)
2011
Breaking Waves, Taxter and Spengemann, New York, NY (reading performance)
SELECTED ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
2020
Origin of Love and Other Tales of Degradation. Los Angeles: Night Gallery, 2020.
2016
Contemporary Print Handbook. New York: Halmos, 2016.
“She Invented Love to Not Die.” C Magazine, June 2016.
“Interviewed by LA Warman.” Cosmonauts Avenue, October 2016.
2015
Burning Blue. New York: Badlands Inc, 2015.
“You are a selfish girl.” The Third Rail 6, Fall 2015.
“The Other Woman: A Prologue.” Michael Jon Gallery Magazine, Spring 2015.
2014
The Coming of Age. Stuttgart, GE: University of Stuttgart, 2014.
Mieke Marple, and Christine Wang. “Horror and Abuse.” Flash Art, November 2, 2014.
2013
“Introductory Interview.” BURNAWAY, August 2013.
2012
“How to Build in a Breakdown.” A Tale of Three Cities Journal, no 2, (2012): 20-22.
“Body Bags.” Qui Parle 20, no 2 (2012): 95-100.
2010-16 Night Papers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8. Los Angeles: Night Gallery, 2010-2016.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Ignas, Sarah. “Review: White Girl Wasted,” Office, June 7, 2024.
Slater, Ella. “Our Tears are Complicit: Cara Benedetto on White Women’s Victimhood,” Elephant, May 31, 2024.
Steer, Emily. “Cara Benedetto’s New Exhibition Unpacks the ‘White Girl Wasted’ Trope,” AnOther, May 10, 2024.
2023
Tuteja, Simran. “Review: Cara Benedetto CLOSER.” Musée Magazine, May 31, 2023.
2019
Morgan, Nicholas Chittenden. “Critic’s Pick: Cara Benedetto.” Artforum, January 15, 2019.
2016
Honora, Shea. “Critic’s Pick: Cara Benedetto.” Artforum, October 27, 2016.
2014
Smith, Roberta. “Gallery Listing: Last Chance.” The New York Times, October 2014.
Lascaze, Zoë. “Sex at a Benefit.” NY Observer, September 2014.
Munro, Cait. “Artist Flips the Conventional ‘Benefit Gala’ on its Head.” Artnet, September 2014.
2013
Marple, Mieke. “This Book Owns No One This Book Owes No One.” The Art Book Review, July 29, 2013.
Damman, Catherine. “Work It, Working Mother: L.A. Summer Performances.” Art in America, August 29, 2013.
2012
Herrera Li Puma, Suzanne. “A Nice, Clean Space for a Panic Attack: Notes for Cara Benedetto.” Qui Parle 20, no 2 (2012): 91-93.
Wagley, Catherine. “Five Artsy Things to See this Week: Big Holes and Female High Jumpers.” LA Weekly, March 14, 2012.
2011
McGarry, Kevin. “Turning a Page | Cara Benedetto at Taxter & Spengemann.” The New York Times Magazine, November 14, 2011.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014
Invagination: Mother Lover, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Theater, Stuttgart, DE
2012
Invagination Requires Write to Life, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Invagination: Hunger is Real, H.E.N.S Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Invagination: A Seagull Presents Woman to Woman, Kara Walker Studio, New York, NY
2010
Invagination and the death of a hamster: 4 those with and without, Kara Walker Studio, New York, NY
WORKSHOPS AND TALKS
2018
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Austin, Austin, TX
Visiting Artist Lecture, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Visiting Artist Lecture, VCU Summer Studio Program, Richmond, VA
2017
Visiting Artist Writing Workshop, KASK, Ghent, BE
Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
Visiting Artist Lecture, VCU Summer Studio Program, Richmond, VA
2015
Visiting Artist Lecture, Staedelschule, Frankfurt, DE
COLLECTIVES
Words With Love, Co-Founder and Editor, New York, NY
HANS EISLER NAIL SALON, Communications Director, New York, NY
Holding Her Shape Collects, Co-Founder, New York, NY
Columbia University Graduate Artist and Art Historian Lecture Series, Co-Founder, New York, NY
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2017
Research Grant, VCU PAPR Department
2016
Dean’s Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University
Research Grant, VCU PAPR Department
2015
Research Grant, VCU PAPR Department
2014
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award, NY, NY
2014-13
Cooperation Fellow, Academy Schloss Solitude and Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste
2012
Souterrain Artist Residency, Berlin, DE
2009
Columbia University SoA Scholarship, Catwalk Residency, Catskill, NY
Columbia University SoA Compass Fund Scholarship, Mildred’s Lane Residency, PA
2009-07
Columbia University SoA Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies Fellowship, New York, NY
2008
Columbia University SoA Merit Scholarship, New York, NY
2006
Tamarind Institute Teaching Grant, Artists Studio, St. Petersburg, RU
2005
UW-RF Teaching Grant, Athens School of Fine Art, Solar Plate Workshop, Athens, GRC
Lives and works in Richmond, VA
EDUCATION
2009
Master of Fine Art, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
2007
Professional Printer Trainer Program, Tamarind Institute of Lithography, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2001
Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI
SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
WGW, Rose Easton, London, UK
2023
CLOSER, Chapter NY, New York, NY
2022
Love You, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Blood from Stone, Chapter NY, New York
2016
The Descent of Woman, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Human Bookmark, Michael Jon Gallery, Detroit, MI
2014
Come Early and Often, Chapter NY, New York
Wing & Wing (w Danna Vajda), Art Metropole, Toronto, CA
The Pelvic Floor (w Davida Nemeroff), Young Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
G.B.M.F. (w Douglas Boatwright), Souterrain, Berlin, DE
Where the Skin Gets Pinched (w Davida Nemeroff), Young Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Breaking Waves, Taxter and Spengemann, New York, NY
2010
MADAM presents ACCESSORX (w Mira Dancy), Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
GROUP SHOP, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY
2021
3.0, Chapter NY, New York, NY
Delusionarium 5 (Adaptation), Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019-20
Time is Thirsty, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
2019
Conspiratorial Aesthetics, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
2018
Liquid Love, Gas / The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
2017
HerSelves, The Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, ES
2016
Take me (I’m Yours), Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Shifters, curated by Kristin Chappa, Art in General, New York, NY
Dream Song 386, Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA
2015
Anything Can’t Happen, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
Seagulls, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
How to Remain Human, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2014
Autograft, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, New York, NY
Unlike Scene, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE
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, DE
Cara Benedetto, Whitney Claflin, Georgia Sagri, and Diego Singh, curated by Pati Hertling, Le Potage de Madam Zazouf, 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, Marquise Dance Hall, Istanbul, TR
2010
NEW YORK, Night Gallery at Participant Inc, New York, NY
Das Heilmittel, Night Gallery at Economy, Frankfurt, DE
Brooklyn is Burning, Berkley Art Museum, Berkley, CA
Queer Voice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Idea for the Here and Now, curated by Transformazium, Christina Ray Gallery, New York, NY
Forte, Audio Visual Arts, New York, NY
2009
New Prints 2009, International Print Center, New York, NY
The living and the dead, curated by Darren Bader, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY
Columbia University SoA MFA Thesis Show, curated by Joao Ribas, Fischer Landau Center, New York, NY
The Practice of Joy Before Death, curated by Arlen Austin, Scaramouche Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Columbia University SoA MFA First Year Show, curated by Regine Basha, Columbia University, New York, NY
PERFORMANCES
2019
Scapegoat, Navel, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Predator, with Davida Nemeroff, Public Pool, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Angel of History Toast, Night Gallery, Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
2016
Anything Can’t Happen, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
2015
How to Remain Human, curated by Rose Bouthillier, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2014
Come Early and Often, Chapter NY, New York, NY
2013
This Book Owns No One, Le Potage de Madame Zazouf, New York, NY
SCREENINGS AND READINGS
2023
Mask of the Red Death at the UDC, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, VA (reading)
Leave, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (screening)
Leave, created by Cara Benedetto and Liang Luscombe, Artists Space, New York, NY (screening)
2018
How I skipped the feminist theory workshop and died a cat instead, Academy of Art, Stuttgart, DE (lecture performance)
2014
Autograft, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, New York, NY (lecture performance)
2013
The Aesthetics of Love, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (lecture performance)
2011
Breaking Waves, Taxter and Spengemann, New York, NY (reading performance)
SELECTED ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
2020
Origin of Love and Other Tales of Degradation. Los Angeles: Night Gallery, 2020.
2016
Contemporary Print Handbook. New York: Halmos, 2016.
“She Invented Love to Not Die.” C Magazine, June 2016.
“Interviewed by LA Warman.” Cosmonauts Avenue, October 2016.
2015
Burning Blue. New York: Badlands Inc, 2015.
“You are a selfish girl.” The Third Rail 6, Fall 2015.
“The Other Woman: A Prologue.” Michael Jon Gallery Magazine, Spring 2015.
2014
The Coming of Age. Stuttgart, GE: University of Stuttgart, 2014.
Mieke Marple, and Christine Wang. “Horror and Abuse.” Flash Art, November 2, 2014.
2013
“Introductory Interview.” BURNAWAY, August 2013.
2012
“How to Build in a Breakdown.” A Tale of Three Cities Journal, no 2, (2012): 20-22.
“Body Bags.” Qui Parle 20, no 2 (2012): 95-100.
2010-16 Night Papers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8. Los Angeles: Night Gallery, 2010-2016.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Ignas, Sarah. “Review: White Girl Wasted,” Office, June 7, 2024.
Slater, Ella. “Our Tears are Complicit: Cara Benedetto on White Women’s Victimhood,” Elephant, May 31, 2024.
Steer, Emily. “Cara Benedetto’s New Exhibition Unpacks the ‘White Girl Wasted’ Trope,” AnOther, May 10, 2024.
2023
Tuteja, Simran. “Review: Cara Benedetto CLOSER.” Musée Magazine, May 31, 2023.
2019
Morgan, Nicholas Chittenden. “Critic’s Pick: Cara Benedetto.” Artforum, January 15, 2019.
2016
Honora, Shea. “Critic’s Pick: Cara Benedetto.” Artforum, October 27, 2016.
2014
Smith, Roberta. “Gallery Listing: Last Chance.” The New York Times, October 2014.
Lascaze, Zoë. “Sex at a Benefit.” NY Observer, September 2014.
Munro, Cait. “Artist Flips the Conventional ‘Benefit Gala’ on its Head.” Artnet, September 2014.
2013
Marple, Mieke. “This Book Owns No One This Book Owes No One.” The Art Book Review, July 29, 2013.
Damman, Catherine. “Work It, Working Mother: L.A. Summer Performances.” Art in America, August 29, 2013.
2012
Herrera Li Puma, Suzanne. “A Nice, Clean Space for a Panic Attack: Notes for Cara Benedetto.” Qui Parle 20, no 2 (2012): 91-93.
Wagley, Catherine. “Five Artsy Things to See this Week: Big Holes and Female High Jumpers.” LA Weekly, March 14, 2012.
2011
McGarry, Kevin. “Turning a Page | Cara Benedetto at Taxter & Spengemann.” The New York Times Magazine, November 14, 2011.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014
Invagination: Mother Lover, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Theater, Stuttgart, DE
2012
Invagination Requires Write to Life, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Invagination: Hunger is Real, H.E.N.S Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Invagination: A Seagull Presents Woman to Woman, Kara Walker Studio, New York, NY
2010
Invagination and the death of a hamster: 4 those with and without, Kara Walker Studio, New York, NY
WORKSHOPS AND TALKS
2018
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Austin, Austin, TX
Visiting Artist Lecture, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Visiting Artist Lecture, VCU Summer Studio Program, Richmond, VA
2017
Visiting Artist Writing Workshop, KASK, Ghent, BE
Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
Visiting Artist Lecture, VCU Summer Studio Program, Richmond, VA
2015
Visiting Artist Lecture, Staedelschule, Frankfurt, DE
COLLECTIVES
Words With Love, Co-Founder and Editor, New York, NY
HANS EISLER NAIL SALON, Communications Director, New York, NY
Holding Her Shape Collects, Co-Founder, New York, NY
Columbia University Graduate Artist and Art Historian Lecture Series, Co-Founder, New York, NY
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2017
Research Grant, VCU PAPR Department
2016
Dean’s Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University
Research Grant, VCU PAPR Department
2015
Research Grant, VCU PAPR Department
2014
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award, NY, NY
2014-13
Cooperation Fellow, Academy Schloss Solitude and Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste
2012
Souterrain Artist Residency, Berlin, DE
2009
Columbia University SoA Scholarship, Catwalk Residency, Catskill, NY
Columbia University SoA Compass Fund Scholarship, Mildred’s Lane Residency, PA
2009-07
Columbia University SoA Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies Fellowship, New York, NY
2008
Columbia University SoA Merit Scholarship, New York, NY
2006
Tamarind Institute Teaching Grant, Artists Studio, St. Petersburg, RU
2005
UW-RF Teaching Grant, Athens School of Fine Art, Solar Plate Workshop, Athens, GRC