Sadie Benning | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

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 Exhibitions

2026: "Sadie Benning: Daily Forecasts: October 28th, 2020–September 6th, 2021," Maxwell Graham, New York, NY
2025: "Underwater," Kaufmann Repetto Milano, Milan, Italy
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: "The Journey Continues," Wisch Family Gallery, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
: "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

2026: Bacon, Alex and Sadie Benning. "SADIE BENNING’S WATERCOLORS," Artforum, February 10 (Link)
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
: 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
: Landmarks, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
: 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