About

Erick Antonio Benitez (b. Bronx, NY) is a first generation Salvadoran-American multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Los Angeles, CA & Baltimore, MD. They received a BFA in Painting with a Video Concentration from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014 and a MFA in Art + Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts in 2023. 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, Galerie B-312 (Montreal, QC), Casa 510 (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) and Le Devoir (QC), and printed publications including New American Paintings issue 154, BmoreArt issue 6, and John Hopkins: Special Collections. Benitez is also a recipient of the Charles Gaines Fellowship Award, Janet and Walter Sondheim Award, Ruby Artist Project Grant in Performing and Media Arts, MASB Travel Artist Award, and has participated in The Studios at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), and Pigment Sauvage “La Track'' residency in Montreal, Quebec-Canada .