Erick Antonio Benitez

Based in LA II ebenitezstudio@gmail.com

Education

2023 - MFA in Art & Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA

2014 - BFA in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA


Awards/ Grants/ Residencies

2024 - Artist Retreat at Salmon Creek Farm

2023 - Y.ES Contemporary Grant

2021 - Charles Gaines MFA Fellowship

2019 - Pigment Sauvage Residency, Montréal, Canada 

2019 - Baltimore Light City Commission  

2018 - Janet and Walter Sondheim Award

2018 - MASB Artist Travel Prize

2018 - The Studios at MASS MoCa, North Adams, MA

2016 - Ruby Artist Project Grant in Performing and Media Arts

2015 - First Place Prize Award; "Emulsion" Annual Juried Exhibition 

2012 - Honorable Mention Award; MICA "Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition"

2010 - Studio Arts, Metàfora Studio Arts Program, Barcelona, Spain


Selected Exhibitions

2024 - B.L.S.R. group exhibition, Casa 510, San Salvador, SV curated by Matia Borgonovo

2023 - Booth Presentation, Untitled Art Fair, Selenas Mountain Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

2023 - Plato’s Rave: Prefix Construct, MFA Thesis, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2022 - This Is Not Surrealism, Dinner Gallery, New York, NY, curated by RegularNormal

2022 - Country Made of Ice Cream, Selenas Mountain, Ridgewood, NY

2021 - Solo Booth Presentation, Swab Art Fair, Barcelona, curated La Unica Galleria

2021 - Stretched; Spring Group Show, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA curated by Blair Murphy

2021 - Software for People; The Mind is Time and Space, Virtual Performance Series, curated Sindkit

2020 - La Track Project, Galerie B-312, Montreal, Canada, curated by Pigment Sauvage

2020 - Trawick Prize Finalist Exhibition, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD curated by Larry Cook, Carrie Fucile, & Noah Simblist

2019 - Mickalene Thomas: A Moment’s Pleasure (featuring video artist), The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

2019 - La Track Project, Baltimore ICA, Baltimore, MD curated by Pigment Sauvage

2019 - Esta Tierra Es Tu Tierra, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster PA, curated by Gabrielle Buzgo

2019 - Transceiver Radio, Transformer Gallery, Washington DC, Curated by Joshua Gamma 

2018 - Janet and Walter Sondheim Award Exhibition, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, Juried by Lauren Cornell, Margo Norton, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed.

2018 - A City of Magic Carpets, The Gallery at City Hall, Baltimore, MD

2018 - Journey to Atzlán, Gaddis Geeslin Gallery at Sam Houston University, Huntsville, TX, curated by Ashley Dehoyos

2017 - Simultan Festival 2017: Juried Video Screening, Timisoara, Romania

2015 - Emulsion Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery O on H, Washington DC, curated Adah Rose Bitterbaum

2014 - Academy 2014: Annual Invitational MFA/BFA Exhibition, Connor Smith Gallery, Washington DC

2012 - MICA Annual Juried Exhibition, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Juried by Jack Livingston and Karyn Miller

Publication

2023 - “The Best Booths at Untitled Art Miami Beach” by Maximiliano Durón, ARTnews, December 6, 2023

2022 - “At CalArts MFA Open Studio”, by Caroline Ellen Liou, Hyperallergic, May 16, 2022

2021 - New American Paintings, Issue 154, South Issue, 2021

2021 -“What we saw at Swab Art Fair 2021. Here are the Booths we liked the most, Daily-Lazy”, October 21, 2021

2021 - “Las 9 obras que más nos han gustado de la feria de arte emergente SWAB Barcelona, By Jose Luis Gonzalez, Architectural Digest España, October 9, 2021

2021 - Exhibition Visits, By Amy Boone-Mcreesh, Inertia Studio Visits, August 18, 2021

2020 - Perspectives on blending culture and identity, By Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, December 11, 2020

2020 - “Marcher dans les merges”, By Jerôme Delgado, Le Devoir, March 7th, 2020

2020 -​ “Esta Tierra Es Tu Tierra​”, Terremoto Magazine, January 12, 2020

2018 - “Bmore Art Magazine : Home”, Issue Six, Fall/Winter 2018 

2018 - “And the 2018 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Goes to…” by Lauren LaRocca, Baltimore Magazine, July 15, 2018

2018 - “This Land Is Your Land”, by Willow Pinkerton, Baltimore Style, July 18, 2018

2018 - “The 2018 Sondheim Finalist in Photos”, by Cara Ober, BmoreArt, March 26, 2018

2015 - “BmoreArt Journal of Art + Ideas: PLACE”, Issue One, Fall/Winter 2015

2015 - “Erick Benitez Wins First Prize in Juried Emulsion Show” by Cara Ober, BmoreArt, March 21, 2015

2014 - “Academy 2014” by Micheal O'Sullivan, Washington Post, July 17, 2014

2013 - “Coffee, Whisky, and Art in Station North” by Baynard Woods, Baltimore City Paper, March 13, 2013

Presentations l Panels l Artist Talks

2024 - Artist Talk at Earlham College

2023 - Performance Reading at Aparador LA

2020 - Media Arts Panel for National Endowment of the Arts

2020 - Artist Talk at Maryland Institute College of Art

2019 - Artist Talk at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design

2019 - Bloomberg Arts Panel, Young Audience of Maryland

2019 - Artist Panel & Talk at CCBC

2019 - Breaking Borders in the Arts Panel at Baltimore School for the Arts,

2018 - CIRCA: Artist Talk at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County

2018 - Breaking Boundaries: Artist Talk at Frederick Douglass Isaac Maritime Park, hosted by the International Interior Design Association Mid-Atlantic Chapter

2016 - Artist Presentation at the Smithsonian Latino Center (Washington, DC)

Sound Performances

2024 - KChung Radio at MOCA Geffen Museum, June 8th (Los Angeles, CA)

2021 - Performance at Lupercalia, March 3rd (California City, CA)

2019 - High Zero: Worlds of Collision at Artscape Festival, July 20th (Balt, MD)

2019 - Transformer Gallery x Tranciever Radio: Resident Artist, May 2019, (Washington, DC)

2018 - The Red Room, June 10th, (Balt, MD)

2018 - Drone Brunch at The Holy Underground, March 6, (Balt, MD)

2018 - Roots & Raices Festival @ Motor House, June 13, (Balt, MD)