Benjamin Edwards è nato a Iowa City, Iowa nel 1970 e vive e lavora a Washington D.C..
La ricerca di Ben Edwards è una indagine costante della dinamica che si crea tra progresso e natura, di cui egli cerca di comprenderne l’equilibrio e le leggi. Da qui prendono forma le sue città immaginarie dove la figura umana ha un ruolo marginale ed è relegata ad una teoria di ritratti dall’identità confusa.
Nelle sue opere ritrae l’equilibrio e le leggi che regolano la distopia della città del futuro. La produzione pittorica di Edwards ha origine dallo studio dell’Utopia di Thomas More, che conduce l’artista a lavorare sul tema della città immaginaria. Pertanto, Edwards inizia a produrre vedute di città frammentate secondo un’estetica caotica e non lineare. Ed è proprio da questo sfondo che si formano le sue città: luoghi immaginari di un futuro tecnologico situati in un interstizio tra fisico e digitale, realtà e possibilità, tra mortalità e immoralità.
Edwards ha fatto ricorso a tecniche diverse negli anni. All’inizio utilizzava un proiettore per diapositive, spostando l’immagine, o anche sovrapponendo più immagini, per ottenere combinazioni impreviste sulla tela, per poi da dipingere. Nel 2005 inizia a usare un codice JavaScript integrato in HTML insieme a un proiettore digitale.
Ha esposto negli Stati Uniti, in Europa e in Asia. Il suo lavoro fa parte di collezioni museali come il Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA e il Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Benjamin Edwards fa parte del movimento artistico Aftermodernism fondato dal collezionista Hubert Neumann. Nel 2020 espone alla Mucciaccia Contemporary di Roma nella mostra Aftermodernism Chapter 2 Benjamin Edwards Tom Sanford a cura di Cesare Biasini Selvaggi.
2013
System, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Democracity, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Ether Studies, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France
2006
We, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Automatic City, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Convergence, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Aftermoderism Chapter 2, Benjamin Edwards and Tom Sanford, curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi. Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome, Italy.
2017
Hypnagogic (two-person show with Michael Bevilacqua), Neumann Wolfson Art, New York, NY
Inaugural Group Show, Neumann Wolfson Art, New York, NY
2016
AftermodernisM, Neumann Wolfson Art/ Nicole Ripka Gallery, Watermill, NY
Sensorium, The Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2013
System, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2012
Disorder, The Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2010
World und System, Städtische Galerie Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Skeptical Landscapes, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA (catalogue)
Currents, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2009
Futurescape, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (solo)
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Idylls, The World Bank, in collaboration with Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC (illustrated brochure)
2008–2009
Excerpt: Selections from the Collection of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (catalogue)
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2008
To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Democracity, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
The Triumph of Democracy: Inside the Studio: Benjamin Edwards, The Print Center, Philadelphia (solo)
2007
Ether Studies, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France (solo)
The Incomplete, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
The Incomplete Incomplete, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
Microwave Five, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Cul-de-Sac: Art from a Suburban Nation, Martin Gallery, Radford University, Radford, VA
Public Image: Painting in the City, Tilburg, Netherlands
We, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY (solo)
New Prints 2006/Spring: Selected by Richard Tuttle, New York, NY
City-M, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2005
New Art New York: Reflections on the Human Condition, Trierenberg Holding, Inc., Traun, Austria
The ArtReview 25: An exhibition of Emerging US Artists, Phillips de Pury & Company East Gallery, New York
The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment, Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, Bronx, NY
First Skin, Gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
2004
Black & White, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY
Surface Tension, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Open Range, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Future Noir, Gorney Bravin Lee Gallery, New York
Automatic City, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2003
Split, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
MetaScape, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2002
Post-Digital Painting, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Snapshot, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York
Plotting, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Panorama, curated by Carmen Zita / TRACE, Room, NY
The Norman Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
On Perspective, Gallerie Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
Busan Bienale, Busan, Korea
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2001
Convergence, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuel Kunst Gent (SMAK), Belgium
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