About

Erick Antonio Benitez (b. Bronx, NY) is a first-generation Salvadoran-American multidisciplinary artist, curator, educator and musician based in Los Angeles and New York City. They received an MFA in Art + Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts in 2023 and a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. Benitez has exhibited work at The Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (VA), Connor Smith Gallery (DC), Dinner Gallery (NYC), Untitled Art Fair (Miami, FL), Galerie B-312 (Montreal, QC), La Fábrica (San Salvador, SV), SWAB Art Fair (Barcelona, ES), and Simultan Festival (Timișoara, RO). Their work has been reviewed by ARTnews, The Washington Post, BmoreArt, The American Scholar, The Daily Lazy, Terremoto (MX), Mediana Magazine (SV), and Le Devoir (QC), and has appeared in printed publications including New American Paintings (Issue 154), BmoreArt (Issue 6), and Johns Hopkins: Special Collections. Benitez is the recipient of the Charles Gaines Fellowship Award, the Janet and Walter Sondheim Award, the Ruby Artist Project Grant in Performing and Media Arts, and the MASB Travel Artist Award, and has participated in residencies at The Studios at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), LFBK Residency (La Libertad, SV), and Pigment Sauvage “La Track” Residency (Montreal, QC, Canada). Currently, Benitez is an AICAD Teaching Fellow at the Yale School of Art.

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Email inquiries at: ebenitezstudio@gmail.com

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