Benjamin Edwards

benjedwa@gmail.com  ·  benjaminedwards.org
Education
2018–25 MA in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Jungian and Archetypal Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA
1995–97 MFA in Painting and Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1992 Graduate Painting Program, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1988–92 BA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Solo Exhibitions
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 AfterModernism Chapter Two: Benjamin Edwards and Tom Sanford, Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome, Italy
2018 Potpourri, Neumann Wolfson Art, New York, NY
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, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Disorder, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2010 World and System, Stadtischen Galerie, Dresden, Germany
The Incomplete Paris, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France
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, Phillips de Pury & Co. 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, NY
Plotting, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Panorama, curated by Carmen Zita / TRACE, Room, NY
On Perspective, Gallerie Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2001 Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst Gent (SMAK), Belgium
Line, Form, Color: From Hard Edge Abstraction to Architecture, Howard House, Seattle, WA
Boomerang: Collector’s Choice II, curated by Andrew Ong, Exit Art, NY
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
1999 The Great Drawing Show, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Another Country: The Constructed Landscape, 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 Lillian Levinson Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Public & Corporate Collections
Alliant Energy Corporation, Madison, WI  ·  Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA  ·  Chicago Center for the Print, IL  ·  Fidelity Investments, Cincinnati, OH  ·  Goldman Sachs Corporate Collection, NY  ·  Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, MO  ·  Harsch Investment Properties, Portland, OR  ·  Kanders & Company, CT  ·  Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., San Francisco, CA  ·  Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WA  ·  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY  ·  New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA  ·  The New York Public Library, NY  ·  The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, OH
Selected Publications
2026 Transforming the Mid-Polis: Conversations on the Mid-Polis Condition, ed. Paul Lukez, Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, forthcoming 2026 [artwork/photographs]
2010 World and System, exhibition catalogue, text by William Willoughby, Stadtischen Galerie, Dresden, Germany
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, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Plotting: A Survey Exhibition of Artists’ Studies, exhibition catalogue, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Casino 2001: 1st Quadrennial 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
Academic Publications
2023 Edwards, B. A crisis of spirit: Archetypal pedagogy and cultural revelation. In C. Mayes and J. Rinaldi (Eds.), New Visions, New Voices, vol. 2. Rowman and Littlefield.
Selected Bibliography
2020 Biasini Selvaggi, Cesare. AfterModernism: A Perspective on Contemporary Art. Carlo Cambi Editore.
2015 Campellin, Leda. “Benjamin Edwards in the Information Age.” Juliet Art Magazine, December.
2013 Wool, Lauren. “Beautiful Mechanisms: A Conversation with Benjamin Edwards.” Blunderbuss Magazine, June.
2008 Niles Dehoff, Jessica. “Digital Cities: Benjamin Edwards’ Utopian Dreams.” Tokyo Art Beat, July.
2007 Hall, Emily. “Benjamin Edwards.” Artforum, February.
Saltz, Jerry. “The Biggest Picture.” The Village Voice, February 1.
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 Davis, Whitney. “How to Make Analogies in a Digital Age.” October, Issue 117.
Gelber, Eric. “The Roads Ahead, Scary & Serene.” The New York Sun, December 14.
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show.” The Village Voice, November 30.
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, 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.
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. “Babylon Rising.” Village Voice, September 5.
2002 Dailey, Meghan. “Painting as Paradox.” Artforum.com, December.
Saltz, Jerry. “Painting à 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.
Bamas, Maria. “Casino 2001: Kisses from Ghent.” Tema Celeste Contemporary 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.
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.
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.
1998 Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review.” The New York Times, May 15.
Saltz, Jerry. “Inventory.” Time Out New York, May 14–21.
Professional
2013 Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA — Visiting Artist / Lecture
2010 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI — Visiting Artist / Lecture
2009 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT — Visiting Artist / Lecture
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS — Visiting Artist / Lecture
2008 Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada — Visiting Artist / Lecture
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA — Visiting Artist / Lecture
University of Maryland, College Park, MD — Lecture
2007 Microsoft, Seattle, WA — Lecture
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA — 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
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
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI — Visiting Artist / Lecture
2001 Columbia University, New York, NY — Visiting Artist / Lecture
Teaching
2024 Elements of Painting, Spring semester, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Graduate Colloquium, Spring semester, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2023 Painting on Site I, Fall semester, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Graduate Colloquium, Fall semester, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2013 Research and Development for Fine Artists, Winter-session course, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1997 Informing Painting, Winter-session course co-taught with Alex Blau, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Continuing Education
2018–19 Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts Seminar, Philadelphia, PA
2015 John Truby’s The Anatomy of Story Master Class, New York, NY