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Erik Benson

Erik Benson

 

Erik Benson Bio

Erik Benson is an artist whose process based paintings are informed by architecture and everyday objects found in urban landscape. He received a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design and. BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He studied at the Skowhegan School Painting and Sculpture. He has had solo and group shows throughout the United States and Europe. He is the recipient of a NYFA painting fellowship as well as a participant in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, and a McKnight Fellow.

Erik Benson's Past Exhibitions

While You Were Sleeping - 2021- Group Exhibition
Benson Downey Wetzel - 2020 - Erik Benson, Sean Downey, and Michael Wetzel
Out of Our Closet - 2018 - Group Exhibition
Benson & Hutchinson - 2018 - Erik Benson and Peter Hutchinson