Frank Benson was born in 1976 in Virginia, USA. He studied at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, and for a Master of Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2012 he was Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Recent solo exhibitions include Airports and Extrusions (with Peter Fischli and David Weiss) at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, 2012; and Extrusions, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, 2011. His work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions including_To Be With Art Is All We Ask_, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, 2012; Home Alone, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, 2011; Frank Benson, Mark Grotjahn, Matt Johnson, Hydra Workshops, Hydra, Greece, 2011; In the Name of the Artists — American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Bienal Pavillion, São Paulo, Brazil, 2011; and Permanent Mimesis, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, 2010. Benson lives and works in New York.
