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Sadie Benning creates experimental videos, performances, and wall-mounted works that blur the distinctions between painting, drawing, sculpture, and photo collage. The material hybridity of Benning’s work speak to a continued desire to foreground ambiguity as an important aspect of making artwork. Benning is still the youngest artist to have ever been included in a Whitney Biennial, in 1993 at the age of 19. That earliest work was made using a PixelVision video camera to make highly scripted videos that explored the aesthetics of editing and the performance of sexuality and gender. Benning’s practice evolved from these first-person narratives, to hand-drawn animations, to wall works that defy definition as either painting or sculpture, and sequential installations incorporating found and created images and found objects. In their most recent work, Benning returns to the formal and conceptual framework of time-based media, often creating quasi-narrative sequences of wall works, similar to the animated frames of their previous work in video.

Sadie Benning was born in 1973 in Madison, WI, and lives and works in New York. Their work is in many important public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Important solo exhibitions include Pain Thing, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Shared Eye, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; and Play Pause at the Dia Foundation for the Arts, New York; the Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Their work Shared Eye was installed in Surrounds: 11 Installations at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, when it re-opened in 2019. Benning’s work has also been included in Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York; Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany; and the 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. They are one of the founding members of the iconic band Le Tigre.

Selected Works

This image depicts an artwork by Sadie Benning titled "Overtures." This artwork was created in 2023-2024 and measures 26" x 35" [HxW] (66.04 x 88.9 cm). Its medium is Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache.
Sadie Benning
“Overtures,” 2023-2024
This image depicts an artwork by Sadie Benning titled "Earring." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 29" x 22" [HxW] (73.66 x 55.88 cm). Its medium is Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache.
Sadie Benning
“Earring,” 2024
This image depicts an artwork by Sadie Benning titled "12 x 16, E." This artwork was created in 2023-2024 and measures 12" x 16" [HxW] (30.48 x 40.64 cm). Its medium is Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache.
Sadie Benning
“12 x 16, E,” 2023-2024
This image depicts an artwork by Sadie Benning titled "Covenant." This artwork was created in 2023-2024 and measures 44" x 59" [HxW] (111.76 x 149.86 cm). Its medium is Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache.
Sadie Benning
“Covenant,” 2023-2024
This image depicts an artwork by Sadie Benning titled "Shared." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 26" x 21" [HxW] (66.04 x 53.34 cm). Its medium is Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache.
Sadie Benning
"Shared", 2024
This image depicts an artwork by Sadie Benning titled "Love." This artwork was created in 2023-2024 and measures 44" x 59" [HxW] (111.76 x 149.86 cm). Its medium is Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache.
Sadie Benning
"Love," 2023-2024
This image depicts an artwork by Sadie Benning titled "The long speed coming." This artwork was created in 2023-2024 and measures 44" x 59" [HxW] (111.76 x 149.86 cm). Its medium is Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache.
Sadie Benning
"The long speed coming", 2023-2024
This image depicts an artwork by Sadie Benning titled "Ambidextrous." This artwork was created in 2023-2024 and measures 33" x 27" [HxW] (83.82 x 68.58 cm). Its medium is Wood, aqua resin, casein, and acrylic gouache.
Sadie Benning
“Ambidextrous,” 2023-2024
Sadie Benning “Untitled (cut-out),” 2022
Sadie Benning
“Untitled (cut-out),” 2022
Sadie Benning “Untitled (cut-out),” 2022
Sadie Benning
“Untitled (cut-out),” 2022
Sadie Benning “Untitled 4,” 2019
Sadie Benning
“Untitled 4,” 2019
Sadie Benning “Untitled 9,” 2019
Sadie Benning
“Untitled 9,” 2019
Sadie Benning “Untitled 11x16 (VV),” 2019
Sadie Benning
“Untitled 11x16 (VV),” 2019
Sadie Benning “Untitled 1,” 2019
Sadie Benning
“Untitled 1,” 2019
Sadie Benning “M,” 2018
Sadie Benning
“M,” 2018
Sadie Benning “Blow Up #17,” 2018
Sadie Benning
“Blow Up #17,” 2018
Sadie Benning “Blow Up #19,” 2018
Sadie Benning
“Blow Up #19,” 2018
Sadie Benning “Sunset 16,” 2016
Sadie Benning
“Sunset 16,” 2016
Sadie Benning “Blow Up #22,” 2018
Sadie Benning
“Blow Up #22,” 2018
Sadie Benning “Protest,” 2016
Sadie Benning
“Protest,” 2016
Sadie Benning “Bedroom,” 2016
Sadie Benning
“Bedroom,” 2016
Sadie Benning “Shared Eye (Sequence 5),” 2016
Sadie Benning
“Shared Eye (Sequence 5),” 2016
Casein, acrylic, aqua resin, wood, digital images, photographs and found materials
10.5 x 8.25" [HxW] (26.67 x 20.96 cm)
Inventory #BEN412
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photocredit: Chris Austin
Sadie Benning “Shared Eye (Sequence 14, Panel 39),” 2016
Sadie Benning
“Shared Eye (Sequence 14, Panel 39),” 2016
Sadie Benning “Untitled, telephone drawing,” 2015
Sadie Benning
“Untitled, telephone drawing,” 2015
Sadie Benning “Untitled, telephone drawing,” 2015
Sadie Benning
“Untitled, telephone drawing,” 2015
Sadie Benning “Red Maze Monochrome,” 2014
Sadie Benning
“Red Maze Monochrome,” 2014

Exhibitions

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

2025
"go to the limits of your longing," Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
2024
"Place des Vosges," Paris, France
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

2024
Molesworth, Helen & Jason Simon. "STARING BACK: A conversation with Bill Horrigan," Artforum, October 1 (Link)
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
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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 of Contemporary Art San Diego
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