Frank Benson

Frank Benson (b. 1976, Norfolk, Va.) is a contemporary artist based in New York, working in sculpture and photography. He earned his B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998 and his M.F.A. in sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. Benson frequently works at the forefront of advancing digital media technologies. His three-dimensional and photographic works reflect a sustained fascination with concepts of arrested movement and the use of digital tools in the creation of sculpture. Increasingly, he has used high-tech software in the production of his works, translating photographs of human figures into meticulously crafted 3D models that serve as the basis for hyperreal and minutely finished sculptures, as seen in his celebrated series Human Statues, begun in 2005. Benson’s work has been the subject of a survey at the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway, and featured in major group exhibitions including Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body, The Met Breuer, New York; Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Surround Audience, the 2015 New Museum Triennial, New York; and The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London, among others.