Benjamin Edwards is an artist and independent scholar whose work spans over two decades of exhibition at major institutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His paintings are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library, among others, and have been reviewed widely in publications including The New York Times, Artforum, and The New Yorker.
Edwards holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Jungian and Archetypal Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute. His current book project, Art and Myth in the Modern World System: The Rise and Demise of the Aesthetic, draws on world-systems analysis, cultural sociology, and depth psychology to examine the historical formation — and possible unraveling — of fine art as a modern category, asking what cultural forms may be taking shape in its wake.
He lives and works in Washington, D.C.