| Born 1970 in Iowa City, Iowa | ||||||||
| Lives and works in Washington, D.C. | ||||||||
| EDUCATION | ||||||||
| 1997 | MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI | |||||||
| 1992 | San Francisco Art Institute, CA, Graduate Painting Program | |||||||
| 1992 | BA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | |||||||
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | ||||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||||||||
| 2008 | Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN | |||||||
| 2007 | The Incomplete, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY | |||||||
| The Incomplete Incomplete, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY | ||||||||
| Contemporary Printmaking at the Crossroads, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ | ||||||||
| 2006 | Cul-de-Sac: Art from a Suburban Nation, Martin Gallery, Radford University, Radford, VA | |||||||
| Public Image: Painting the City, Tilburg, Netherlands | ||||||||
| New Prints 2006/ Spring: Selected by Richard Tuttle, New York, NY | ||||||||
| City-M, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria | ||||||||
| 2005 | World Painting, Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain | |||||||
| Summer Sessions, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, MO | ||||||||
| New Art New York: Reflections on the Human Condition, Trierenberg Holding, Inc., Traun, Austria | ||||||||
| The ArtReview 25: An Exhibition of Emerging US Artists, Phiilips de Pury & Company East Gallery, New York, NY | ||||||||
| The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment, Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY, Bronx, NY | ||||||||
| First Skin, Gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany | ||||||||
| 2004 | Black and White, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, 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, NY | ||||||||
| 2003 | From Here to There: Maps as Muse, Hirschl & Adler Gallery, New York, NY | |||||||
| Split, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY | ||||||||
| Prague Biennale, Veletrzni Palace, Prague, Czech Republic | ||||||||
| 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 | Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuel Kunst Gent (SMAK), Belgium | |||||||
| Line, Form, Color: From Hard Edge Absiraction to Architecture, Howard House, Seattle, WA | ||||||||
| Boomerang: Collector's Choice II, curated by Andrew Ong, Exit Art, NY | ||||||||
| Next Wave Prints, Elias Fine Art, Allston, MA | ||||||||
| 2000 | Greater New York, P.S.1 / MoMA Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY | |||||||
| Architecture & Memory, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY | ||||||||
| Pop and After: 1965-2000, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA | ||||||||
| Collector's Choice, curated by Norman Dubrow, Exit Art, NY | ||||||||
| 1999 | The Great Drawing Show, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |||||||
| 400, Gale Gates et al., Brooklyn, NY | ||||||||
| Another Country: The Constructed Landscape, curated by Augusto Arbizo, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY | ||||||||
| 1998 | Inventory, White Columns, New York, NY | |||||||
| 1997 | Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence RI | |||||||
| 1996 | Small Scale Landscapes, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston MA | |||||||
| The Bombastic Righteous Passively Become Apparent Absurdities, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI (collaboration with Julie Mehretu) | ||||||||
| 1995 | Figures, OK Harris, New York, NY | |||||||
| 1992 | Wet Paint: Northern California Painting, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |||||||
| AWARDS | ||||||||
| 2006 | RISD/ Target Emerging Artist Award | |||||||
| 1996 | Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI | |||||||
| 1992 | Graduate Merit Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA | |||||||
| 1991-1992 | Lillian Levinson Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | |||||||
| PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS | ||||||||
| Alliant Energy Corporation, Madison, WI | ||||||||
| Fidelity Investments, Cinncinatti, OH | ||||||||
| Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA | ||||||||
| Chicago Center for the Print, IL | ||||||||
| Goldman Sachs Corporate Collection, NY | ||||||||
| Harsch Investment Properties, Portland, OR | ||||||||
| Kanders & Company, CT | ||||||||
| Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., San Francisco, CA | ||||||||
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | ||||||||
| The New York Public Library, NY | ||||||||
| The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, OH | ||||||||
| SELECTED BIBILIOGRAPHY | ||||||||
| 2007 | Lindquist, Greg, "Benjamin Edwards: We," artcritical.com, February. | |||||||
| Saltz, Jerry, "The Biggest Picture," The Village Voice, February 1. | ||||||||
| Hall, Emily, "Benjamin Edwards," Artforum, February. | ||||||||
| Saltz, Jerry, "Looking Back...Sometimes in Anger," The Village Voice, January 16. | ||||||||
| -- "Benjamin Edwards," The New Yorker, January 15. | ||||||||
| Yung, Susan, "Reality Bytes," Gay City News, January 11. | ||||||||
| 2006 | Gelber, Eric, "The Roads Ahead, Scary & Serene," The New York Sun, December 14. | |||||||
| Baker, R.C., "Best in Show," The Village Voice, November 30. | ||||||||
| -- "Benjamin Edwards," Time Out New York, November 30. | ||||||||
| Davis, Whitney, "How to Make Analogies in a Digital Age," October, Issue 117. | ||||||||
| Lynch, Kevin, "Tandem Press Print Show at Chazen," The Capital Times, January 21. | ||||||||
| 2005 | Fischer, Mark, "Summer Season, Summer Sessions," Riverfront Times, St. Louis, June 29. | |||||||
| Biro, Matthew, "New York: Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Benjamin Edwards: Automatic City," Contemporary, Issue 72. | ||||||||
| Vincent, Steven, "Benjamin Edwards at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery," Art in America, May. | ||||||||
| Edwards, Benjamin, "In Their Own Words: Benjamin Edwards," New York Foundation for the Arts, www.nyfa.org, April 7. | ||||||||
| Saltz, Jerry, "System Overload," The Village Voice, February 25. | ||||||||
| Schwendener, Martha, "Benjamin Edwards," Artforum, February. | ||||||||
| 2004 | Kerr, Merrily, "Benjamin Edwards: Automatic City," Time Out New York, December 9-15. | |||||||
| -- "Benjamin Edwards," The New Yorker, December 20 & 27. | ||||||||
| Biersdorfer, Jude D., "Automatic City," The New York Times, November 28. | ||||||||
| Johnson, Ken, "Benjamin Edwards," The New York Times, November 19. | ||||||||
| -- "A New Way to See Broadway," am New York, November 4. | ||||||||
| Meyer, Tedra, "Pixel PAinter" DigitALL Magazine, Fall. | ||||||||
| Rosenberg, Karen, "American Beauty," New York Magazine, September 13. | ||||||||
| Smith, Roberta, "Future Noir at Gorney Bravin & Lee," The New York Times, January 23. | ||||||||
| 2003 | Saltz, Jerry, "Looking Ahead to the New Season, Our Critic Finds Plenty of Reasons to Be Cheerful: Babylon Rising," Village Voice, September 5. | |||||||
| 2002 | Dailey, Meghan, "Painting as Paradox," Artforum.com, December. | |||||||
| Saltz, Jerry, "Painting a la mode," Village Voice, December 4-10. | ||||||||
| Johnson, Ken, "Painting as Paradox," The New York Times, December 13. | ||||||||
| Wilder, Hilary, "Painting at the Edge of Painting: Two-Dimensional Art and the Trouble with Pictures," Perla, October/November. | ||||||||
| Dailey, Meghan, "Critic's Picks: Painting as Paradox," Artforum.com, December 6. | ||||||||
| Bamas, Maria, "Casino 2001: Kisses from Ghent," Tema Celeste Contemporary Art, January-February. | ||||||||
| Zita, Carmen, "State of the Art," Trace, issue #36, April | ||||||||
| "Off the Wall," Smock Magazine, Winter. | ||||||||
| Dunn, Melissa and Gute, Charles, "Spotlight: Casino 2001," Flash Art, January - February. | ||||||||
| 2001 | Mitchell, Dee, Charles, "Review: Benjamin Edwards," Art in America, November | |||||||
| Caniglia, Julie, "Reviews: Benjamin Edwards," Artforum, November. | ||||||||
| Saltz, Jerry, "All at Once", The Village Voice, October 9. | ||||||||
| Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review: Benjamin Edwards," The New York Times, September 28. | ||||||||
| Fels, Sophie, "Goings on About Town," The New Yorker, October 1. | ||||||||
| Levin, Kim, "Voice Choice: Benjamin Edwards," The Village Voice, September 25. | ||||||||
| Finch, Charlie, "Private Benjamin," artnet.com, August 30. | ||||||||
| Adamson, Loch, "Process: Canvassing the City," The New York Times Magazine, August 19. | ||||||||
| Vincent, Steven, "It's a Mall World, Isn't It?," Art and Auction, September / October. | ||||||||
| Caniglia, Julie, "Roadside Attraction," Harper's Bazaar, September. | ||||||||
| Henry, Max, "When Painting Meets Digital," Tema Celeste Contemporary Art, May - June. | ||||||||
| Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review: The Armory Show 2001," The New York Times, February 23. | ||||||||
| 2000 | Newhall, Edith, "On View: Architectural Digest," New York Magazine, January 24. | |||||||
| Levin, Kim, "Voice Choice: Architecture and Memory," Village Voice, February 1. | ||||||||
| 1999 | Watson, Simon, "Simon Says: Collect," artnet.com, September 26. | |||||||
| Worth, Alexi, "Goings on About Town," The New Yorker, July 12. | ||||||||
| Neel, Alex, "Critic's Picks," Time Out New York, June 3 - 10. | ||||||||
| Dalton, Jennifer, "Dream Trash/Trash Dream: The Artist as Collector, Historian and Archivist," PAJ, May. | ||||||||
| 1997 | Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review" The New York Times, May 15. | |||||||
| Saltz, Jerry, "Inventory," Time Out New York, review, May 14-21. | ||||||||
| PUBLICATIONS | ||||||||
| 2003 | Seeing Out Loud: Village Voice Art Columns Fall 1998 - Winter 2003, Jerry Saltz, The Figures - Geoffrey Young, Publisher, Great Barrington, MA | |||||||
| 2002 | Painting as Paradox, exhibition catalogue, text by Lauri Firstenberg, Artists Space, NY | |||||||
| Post-Digital Painting, exhibition catalogue, text by Joe Houston, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI | ||||||||
| Charley o2, Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick, editors, published by Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece | ||||||||
| Plotting: A Survey Exhibition of Artists' Studies, exhibition catalogue, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL | ||||||||
| 2001 | Casino 2001: 1st Ouadrennial of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, S.M.A.K. / Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Belgium | |||||||
| Benjamin Edwards: Convergence, exhibition catalogue, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY; text by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn | ||||||||
| PROFESSIONAL | ||||||||
| 2008 | University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Lecture | |||||||
| 2007 | Microsoft, Seattle, WA, Lecture | |||||||
| 2006 | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Lecture | |||||||
| Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Lecture | ||||||||
| 2005 | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Visiting Artist / Lecture | |||||||
| University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Visiting Artist / Lecture | ||||||||
| Columbia University School of Architecture, New York, NY, Lecture / Panelist | ||||||||
| Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Visiting Artist / Lecture | ||||||||
| Architectural Laboratory, Denver, CO, Lecture | ||||||||
| Annual CAA Conference, Atlanta, GA, Lecture / Panelist | ||||||||
| Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Visiting Artist / Lecture | ||||||||
| 2004 | Columbia University School of Architecture, New York, NY, Lecture | |||||||
| 2003 | Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH, Lecture / Panelist | |||||||
| Yale University, New Haven, CT, Visiting Artist / Lecture / Panelist | ||||||||
| 2002 | Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, Visiting Artist / Lecture | |||||||
| University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Visiting Artist / Lecture | ||||||||
| 2001 | Columbia University, NY, Visiting Artist / Lecture | |||||||