1973

Born in Madison, WI

Lives and works in New York, NY

1997

MFA, Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024

"The Touch, the Amulet and the Saltation," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2023

"Intangible cigarette," Air de Paris, Romainville, France

2022

"Face on earth," Kaufmann Repetto Milano, Milan, Italy

2021

"This is Real," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2020-2021

"Blow ups," Kaufmann Repetto Milano, Milan, Italy

2020

"Pain Thing 2," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY

"Pain Thing," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (Link)

2018

"Sleep Rock," Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (Link)

2017

"Blinded by the Light," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

"Shared Eye," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Link)

2016

"Green God,” Callicoon Fine Arts and Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

“L'oeil de l'esprit,” Air de Paris, Paris, France (Link)

"Shared Eye," Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (Link)

“Excuse Me Ma’am,” Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy (Link)

2015

"Fuzzy Math," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2014

"Patterns," Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY

2013

"War Credits," Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY

2011

"Transitional Effects," Participant Inc., New York, NY

2009

"Play Pause," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2008

"Play Pause," The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

2007

"Form of... a Waterfall," Orchard Gallery, New York, NY

"Play Pause," Dia Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

"Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

2005

"Sadie Benning's Early Pixelvision Videos," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2004

"Sadie Benning Retrospective Series," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2022

"Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2021

"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2020

"Ways of Being," Landmarks (online)

"100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York City, NY

"Don’t let this be easy," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2019-2020

"Surrounds: 11 Installations," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (Link)

"The Body Electric," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2019

"The Light Touch," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

“Kiss My Genders,” Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK

"Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2017

“Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” New Museum, New York, NY (Link)

“Press Your Space Face Close to Mine,” curated by Aaron Curry, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA

2016

“Figurative Geometry,” curated by Bob Nickas, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

“A Shape That Stands Up,” curated by Jamillah James and organized by Hammer Museum, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA

"Certain Skins," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

“Making & Unmaking,” curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

2015

Greater NY, MoMA PS1, New York, NY

"Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age," Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany

"The Painter of Modern Life," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

"Watch This! Revelations in Media Art," Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

2014

"Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp," Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

"Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO

"Groupshow," Christian Lethert Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2013

"Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault," Artists Space, New York, NY

"2013 Carnegie International," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

"NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star," New Museum, New York, NY

"Sadie Benning, Thomas Kovachevich, Dona Nelson," Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY

"Tell It To My Heart: The Collection of Julie Ault," Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

2011

"DANCE DRAW," The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA

"Paper A-Z," Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY

"cinq tranges album de famille," Le Bal, Paris, France

"Reflection Abstraction," curated by Dean Daderko, Vogt Gallery, New York, NY

2010

"OFF Series, Part II," Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

"Love on Film," Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, England

"Benning, Kobayashi, Linzy," Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain

2008

"Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions," 7th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea

2007

"Animated Painting," San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

2006

"MoMA: American Documentary: 1920s to Now," Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taipei, Taiwan

2005

"Bidibidobidiboo," Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

"To Die of Love (Voluntary Permanence)," Museo Universitario de ciencias y arte, Rome, Italy

2004

"Building Identities," Tate Modern, London, UK

2003

Womens International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea

"Remembrance + the Moving Image," Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

"Video Viewpoints: A Selection From the Last Decade," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

"Image-Movement Cinematheque," Taipei, Taiwan

2001

"Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Film," Museum of Modern Art, NY, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA

Videonale 9 Festival, Bonn, Germany

2000

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

"MoMA 2000: Open Ends," Modern and Contemporary Art Since 1980, Museum of Modern Art, NY

"Presumed Innocent," Monsiur le Maire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

1999

"Loves Body," Tokyo Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

"Videodrome," New Museum, New York, NY

1998

Rotterdam International Film Festival, Holland

New York Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC

"Message to Pretty," Threadwaxing Space, NYC

Seoul International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Korea

1996

"Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

1995

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan

1994

"Videotheque: Video Text," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1993

Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Venice Bienniale, Venice, Italy

"Sadie Benning," Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1992

New Queer Cinema Panel, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT

"Videorama: A Celebration of International Video Art," New York Film Festival, NYC

Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany

1991

Amsterdam International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, The Netherlands

"Sadie Benning," Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

"Sadie Benning Videos," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

"Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center," Screening, Buffalo, New York

Videos

2013

War Credits (16 minute loop, single channel black and white video, sound)

2012

In Parts (28min., single channel black and white video, sound)

2011

Old Waves, Record One (30min., single channel black and white video)

Old Waves, Record Two (30min., single channel black and white video)

2006

Play Pause (29:21, two channel video installation from hard drive, color digital video/drawings on paper)

2003

One Liner (5:07, installation, black & white video/ Pixelvision, sound)

The Baby (5:40, installation, color digital video/ drawings on paper)

1999

Aerobicide, co-director, Kathleen Hanna (5:00, color digital video)

Le Tigre, recorded with Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman (vinyl & cd) 1998 Flat is Beautiful (56:00, v black & white video/ Pixelvision, 16mm, and Super 8)

1995

German Song (6:00, black & white video/ super 8 film)

The Judy Spots (12:30, color video/ 16 mm film)

1992

Girl Power (15:00, black & white video/ Pixelvision)

It Wasnt Love (19:06, black & white video/ Pixelvision)

1991

A Place Called Lovely (13:40, black & white video/ Pixelvision)

1990

Jollies (11:18, black & white video/ Pixelvision)

Welcome to Normal (20:00, color video/ Hi 8)

If Every Girl Had a Diary (8:56, black & white video/ Pixelvision)

1989

Living Inside (5:06, black & white video/ Pixelvision)

Me & Rubyfruit (5:31, black & white video/ Pixelvision)

A New Year (5:57, black & white video/ Pixelvision)

Bibliography

2022

Piepenburg, Erik. "The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This," The New York Times, January 22 (Link)

2021

Hurriyet Daily News Staff. “Sadie Benning films at Pera online,” Hurriyet Daily News, March 9 (Link)

Preston Zappas, Lindsay. "Native American and pop references commingle in beaded tapestries," KCRW, January 12

2020

Allen, Dan. "16 LGBTQ art shows worth traveling for in early 2020," NBC News, January 10 (Link)

Downing, Andy. "Staff Pick: Sadie Benning’s ‘Pain Thing’ at the Wex," Columbus Alive, January 24 (Link)

2018

Casadio, Mariuccia. "I quadri di Sadie Benning," Vogue Italia, April 16 (Link)

O'Falt, Chris, "Pixelvision: How a Failed ‘80s Fisher-Price Toy Camera Became One of Auteurs’ Favorite ’90s Tools," IndieWire (web), August 9 (Link)

Sussman, Anna Louie, “What Sold at Art Basel,” Artsy (web), June 17 (Link)

Masterson, Piers, "Sadie Benning: Sleep Rock," this is tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine (web), May 10 (Link)

Lloyd, Kathryn, "Sadie Benning, Sleep Rock," The White Review (web), May (Link)

Luke, Ben, "Sadie Benning/Ian White review: Playing tricks on a sense of time," Evening Standard (web), April 30 (Link)

Waugh, Rosemary, “Sadie Benning: Sleep Rock,” Time Out London, April 24 (Link)

2017

Goldsmith, Leo, “Reality Stars: ‘The Non-Actor’ Surveys Amateur Perforamance in the Movies,” The Village Voice (web), November 25

Saltz, Jerry ,”The New Museum’s ‘Trigger’ is Radical in Content, Retrograde in Form: What Should We Make of That?” Vulture (web), October 23 (Link)

Budick, Ariella, “Review: ‘Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon’ at the New Museum,” Financial Times (web), October 10 (Link)

Sheets, Hilarie M., “Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone,” New York Times, September 15 (Link)

Pagel, David, “Review: At the Pit, artists mine the emotions behind the machine,” Los Angeles Times (web), August 11

Scheper, Moritz, “Public View: Moritz Scheper über Sadie Benning in der Kunsthalle Basel,” Texte zur Kunst, June

Campbell, Andy, “Sadie Benning at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Artforum, May (Link)

Helphenstein, Hilde, “5 Artists to Know from Frieze New York,” Topshop Blog (web), May 10

Cha, Olivian, "Between Seeing and Touching," Flash Art, January - February, (Cover and Feature) (Link)

Riva, Catarina, “Review: Sadie Benning at Kaufmann Repetto,” frieze (web), January 11 (Link)

Waxman, Lori, “Last chance to see 3 noteworthy Chicago art shows,” Chicago Tribune (web), January 11

Judah, Hettie, “Figurative Geometry at Collezione Maramotti,” ArtReview, January/February

Zürcher, Isabel, “Überleben im Schatten der Politik,” Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, February

“Kulture – Tipps: Shared Eye,” azkent magazine, February - March

“Sadie Benning und ihre Rythmussequenzen in der Kunsthalle,” Radio X, February 19

Roeschmann, Dietrich, “Die Kunsthalle Basel zeigt Bildobjekte von Sadie Benning,” Badische Zeitung, February 20

2016

"Best in Show 2015," Artillery, January - February (Link)

Boucher, Brian, “VIDEO: What’s Really Cool at the 2016 Armory Show?” artnet news (web), March 4

Korman, Sam, “Armory Show and Independent,” art agenda (web), March 4

Indrisek, Scott, “10 Must-See Booths at the Armory Show,” Blouin ArtInfo (web), March 3

Gangitano, Lia, “Artists in Conversation: Sadie Benning by Lia Gangitano,” Bomb, Spring (Link)

Corral, Alexis, “15 Blockbuster Gallery Shows You Need to See in New York This May,” Artsy (web), April 29

Salway, Diane, “Transgender Artist Sadie Benning is Not Afraid,” @W Magazine (web), May 13

Gilbert, Alan, “Sadie Benning’s ‘Green God’ at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York and Mary Boone, New York,” art agenda (web), July 5

Istomina, Tatiana, “Sadie Benning: New York, at Mary Boone and Callicoon,” Art in America (web), October 20

Shi, Diana, “Mixed-Media Artist and Gender Provocateur Dismantles the Word ‘Ma’am’,” The Creators Project (web), October 22

Estorick, Alex, “Sadie Benning at kaufmann repetto / Milan,” Flash Art, November

Matyus, Allison, “’Shared Eye’ latest exhibit at Renaissance Society,” Hyde Park Herald (web), November 23

Day, Robyn, “Sadie Benning’s Shared Eye at Renaissance Society,” Sixty, December 14

2015

Myers, Terry R., Sadie Benning: Fuzzy Math, The Brooklyn Rail, February 5

Schwendener, Martha, Review: The 2015 Armory Show Overlaps History and Cultures, The New York Times, March 5

Zellen, Jody, Sadie Benning: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artillery, March (Link)

Molesworth, Helen, Best of 2015, Artforum, December

Edmark, Alison, Top 5: January 7, 2015, Glasstire, January 7

Treilhard, Marieke, Art & Culture: Politics in the Abstract, Angeleno Magazine, February

Miranda, Carolina, Datebook: Cuba photography, a Fictional TED Talk, Chicano Portraiture, Los Angeles Times, January 8

Pagel, David, Review: Sadie Benning, Fuzzy Math, at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times, January 23

Osborne-Bartucca, Kristen, Review: Sadie Benning, ArtScene, February

2014

Zevitas, Steven, 15 Artists to Watch in 2015 (+3), Huffington Post, December 16

Smith, Roberta, The Paintbrush in the Digital Era: The Forever Now, a Survey of Contemporary Painting at MoMA, The New York Times, December 11

Sadie Benning at Callicoon Fine Arts, The New Yorker, October 13

Smith, Roberta, Sadie Benning Patterns at Callicoon Fine Arts, The New York Times, October 10

Durbin, Andrew, Review: Sadie Benning, Artforum, October 2

Johnson, Paddy, Recommended Shows Pt3: Sadie Benning, Patterns, Art Fag City, September 24

Weaver, Rachel, Carnegie Internationals Success Keeps it as One of Pittsburghs Art Gems, Trib Live, April 15

Rich, Sarah, 2013 Carnegie International, Artforum, January

Yates, Christopher, 2013 Carnegie International, The Columbus Dispatch, January 5

2013

Bryant, Eric, The Breakout Art Stars of 2013, Artspace, December 27

Russeth, Andrew, 2013 Carnegie International Acquisitions Announced, The Gallerist, December 16

Benning, Sadie. Recording Notes, Art In America, May

Smith, Roberta, Global Extravaganza, but on a Human Scale: The Carnegie International Keeps Its Survey Small, The New York Times, October 10

Smith, Roberta. Art in Review. Sadie Benning: War Credits, New York Times, May 3

Russeth, Andrew, A Playground in Pittsburgh: The 2013 Carnegie International Is a Quiet Triumph, The New York Observer, October 8

Marcus, Sara. Sadie Benning: Callicoon Fine Arts, Artforum.com. May 6

Stamp, Elizabeth, The 2013 Carnegie International Opens in Pittsburgh, Architectural Digest, October 4

Barliant, Clair. Sadie Benning, The New Yorker, April 29

Benning, Sadie, Top 10, Artforum, Summer

Mack, Joshua, Exhibition Reviews, Sadie Benning: War Credits, Art Review, Summer

McCemont, Doug, The Next Most Collectible Artists: Sadie Benning, Art + Auction, June

2012

Jones, Kristin M., Sadie Benning, Frieze, January - February

2011

Kukielski, Tina. Transitory States (Interview with Sadie Benning), Mousse, December

Hirsch, Faye. Jigsaw Paintings: Sadie Benning at Participant, Art in America, October

2009

Smith, Roberta. Play Pause, Animating the Everyday Sublime, New York Times, April 30

2007

Cooke, Lynne. Best of 2007, Artforum, December

ONeill Butler, Lauren. Sadie Benning: Orchard, Artforum, December

Hirsch, Faye. A Day in the Life, Art in America, September

Howe, David Everitt. Former Le Tigre Members Stuttering Sexuality, Village Voice, September 25

Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Flat Out: Sadie Benning, Artforum, January

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2019

Sadie Benning: Shared Eye. Texts by Solveig Øvtebo, Elena FIlipovic, Christine Mehring, and John Corbett. Renaissance Society and University of Chicago Press, Chigago, IL (exh. cat)

2018

Sadie Benning: File Note. Texts by Leopoldine Core, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (exh. cat)

2017

Burton, J., and Bell, N. (2017). Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Pg 28-31. New Museum.

2016

Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon, London, UK

2013

2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (exh. cat)

2007

Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation. Wexner Center for the Arts/ D.A.P. (exh. cat)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2005

Guggenheim Fellowship

2003

Wexner Center for the Arts, Visiting Artist Residency Award

2000

National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture Merit Award

1999

Andrea Frank Foundation Fellowship

1994

Grande Videokunst Prize, Kahrlsrule, Germany

1993

Film/Video Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts

Midwest Regional Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

1992

Los Angeles Film Critics Award, Best Independent/Experimenta

Public Collections

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

Assocazione Culturale, Bologna, Italy

Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba, Israel

British Film Institute, London, UK

Brown University, Providence, RI

Castello Di Rivoli, Museu DArte Contemporanea, Rivoli/Torino Italy

Center for Arts, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Chungmuro Subway Station, Seoul, Korea

Duke University, Durham, NC

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Museum D'art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Museum of Modern Art, NY

Nagoya Multimedia Institution, Nagoyashi, Japan

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

New York University, NY

Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Projects/NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Tapies Foundacion, Barcelona, Spain

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

Yale University, New Haven, CT