Ana Benaroya (b. 1986, New York, NY) is an artist and educator living and working in Jersey City, NJ. Benaroya earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, in 2008, and an MFA in Painting at Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 2019.
Recent major exhibitions include Tenura/Fuerza, curated by Galerie Sardine, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2025); On Holy Ground, Venus Over Manhattan, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2024); In My Room: Ana Benaroya, Tom of Finland, and Karl Wirsum, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY (2023); Beneath the Paper Moon, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm Sweden (2022); among others. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Carnival, curated by Joe Coleman, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY (2025); The Cloak of Dreams, Shenzhen Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China (2025); The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2024); Conversations Galante, Pilar Corrias, London, United Kingdom (2024); among others. Benaroya has been the subject of articles and reviews in publications including Artnet News, Cultured, Document Journal, Juxtapoz Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Playboy, W Magazine, WWD, among others. Her work is part of the permanent collections of such public institutions, as The Bass Museum, Miami, FL; The High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL; Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; and The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.

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