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About
Recognized for redefining sculpture in the 1960s, Benglis' work challenges the notions of form, gesture, and materiality that were established by Minimalism, arguably the dominant artistic current of that time. Throughout her extensive and consistent research, Benglis's work has always questioned rules and limitations pertaining to the body, the image, and the art-making processes.
Her career has developed across various mediums, and her sculptural practice is known for its radical use of materials such as latex and polyurethane, its entropic process of organizing colors and abstraction, and its approach to removing matter in order to form an image. Benglis' work reflects the freedom of materials that take their form almost independently from the artist's agency, the possibilities inherent in the transformation of matter, and the human need to question the unknown.
With her celebrated "pours", Benglis creates a sculpture method that follows the process of painting while challenging accepted notions of perspective. Benglis incited political, aesthetic, and philosophical experiences throughout her practices, including in her experimental films that explore gender and sexuality.
Lynda Benglis (1941, Louisiana) lives and works in Santa Fe.
Her work is included in numerous museums and public collections worldwide, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Jewish Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Serralves Museum, Porto; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Education
1964, Newcomb College, New Orleans, BFA
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Frozen Gestures, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
2021
Nœuds et nus, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
An Alphabet of Forms, Pace Gallert, New York, USA
Organized by Molly Donovan, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
2020
Lynda Benglis: Ceramics & Sparkle Sculptures, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Lynda Benglis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Lynda Benglis: Hills and Clouds, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
2019
Lynda Benglis: Spettri, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
Lynda Benglis: In the Realm of the Senses, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
Lynda Benglis: Elephant Necklace, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Louisiana, New Orleans, USA
Lynda Benglis, Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, California, USA
Lynda Benglis: Over Air, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Lynda Benglis: Bird’s Nest, The Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Mexico
2018
Lynda Benglis, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis: Face Off, Kistefos-Museet, Jevnaker, Norway
Lynda Benglis, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2017
Lynda Benglis, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
2016
Benglis and the Baroque, Thomas Brambilla Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy
Lynda Benglis: Secrets, Bergen Assembly, KODE Art Museums of Bergen, Norway
Lynda Benglis: New Work, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Bodies, Matter and Soul: The Sculptures of Lynda Benglis, Museo International del Barroco, Puebla, Mexico
Lynda Benglis: Adhesive Products, Bergen Assembly, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Lynda Benglis: Double Albatross, Bergen Assembly, Kunstgarasjen, Bergen, Norway
Lynda Benglis, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Lynda Benglis: Glacier Burger, Bergen Assembly, Bergen School of Architecture, Norway
Lynda Benglis: Primary Structures (Paula’s Props), PRAXIS at Bergen Assembly 2016, KODE Art Museums of Bergen, Bergen Assembly, Norway
Lynda Benglis, Dhaka Art Summit, Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015
Lynda Benglis: Water Sources, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis, The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
2014
Lynda Benglis: Planar Device, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Lynda Benglis, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
2013
Great Hall Exhibitions: Lynda Benglis, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA
Lynda Benglis: Everything Flows, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2012
Lynda Benglis: Flow and Marks, Winner of the Erich Hauser Award 2012, Erich Hauser Art Foundation, Rottweil, Germany
Lynda Benglis: Figures, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Georgia, USA
Part One: New Works on Paper, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
Lynda Benglis: Prints & Cast Paper 1970s–2000’s, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Lynda Benglis, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011
Lynda Benglis Glass Masks, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Fountains, Salon 94 Freemans, New York, USA
2010
Lynda Benglis: Flow and Flesh, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Wax’in Wane, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
2009
Lynda Benglis, New Work, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Traveled to: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Le Consortium, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dijon, France
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2008
Lynda Benglis as Printmaker: A 30-Year Retrospective of Editions and Monotypes, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Lynda Benglis: Shape-Shifters, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2007
Lynda Benglis: Wax Paintings & Ceramic Sculptures, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
Art Matters 11: Lynda Benglis, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA
2006
Lynda Benglis, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, USA
New Work by Lynda Benglis, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis: Pleated, Knotted, Poured…, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2005
Lynda Benglis: The Graces, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis: Ceramic Sculpture, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Lynda Benglis, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan, USA
2004
Lynda Benglis: Ceramic Sculpture, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis: A Sculpture Survey 1969-2004, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
2003
Lynda Benglis: Sculptures, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA
Lynda Benglis, Toomey Tourell, San Francisco, USA
2002
Lynda Benglis Soft Off, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Lynda Benglis: Ceramic Sculpture, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, USA
2001
New Work, Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Lynda Benglis: Color Echoes, Remba Gallery/Mixografia Workshop, Los Angeles, USA
2000
Lynda Benglis: Hot Spots, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
Lynda Benglis: A Decade of Ideas, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, USA
Lynda Benglis: Materials Girl, curated by Michael Klein, Meadows Museum, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Lynda Benglis, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
1999
Lynda Benglis: Wols: Photographs of the 1930s, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis, Sculpture, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1998
Dynamic Silhouette, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
Lynda Benglis: Recent Sculpture and a Screening of “Female Sensibility” from 1973, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
1997
Lynda Benglis, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
Lynda Benglis, Dorfman Projects, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis: Hidden Agenda, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India.
Lynda Benglis: Hidden Agenda, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India
Lynda Benglis: Selected Wall Reliefs, Elizabeth Mayer Fine Art, New York, USA
1996
Lynda Benglis: New Monotypes: Landscapes & Fetishes, Quartet Editions, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis: Ceramics, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, USA
1995
Lynda Benglis, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Lynda Benglis: Sculpture, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Lynda Benglis: Recent Wall & Glass Sculpture, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, USA
1994
Lynda Benglis: Chimera—Recent Ceramic Sculpture, Harwood Foundation Museum, Taos, Traveled to: Boulder Museum of Art, Colorado, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, University of North Texas, Denton Forum Kunst Rottweil; Galerie Six Friedrich & Lisa Ungar, Munich; Galerie Charim Klocker, Vienna;
Lynda Benglis: Wax Paintings, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Lynda Benglis: Wax Paintings, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
1993
Lynda Benglis: From the Furnace, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Lynda Benglis, Gow-Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Lynda Benglis: Ceramic Sculpture, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, USA
Lynda Benglis:” Clothed and Unclothed”: Recent Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA
1992
Lynda Benglis, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, USA
1991
Lynda Benglis, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
New Works, Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, USA
Lynda Benglis: Recent Work, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Lynda Benglis: Dual Natures, Retrospective, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA; Traveled to: Contemporary Arts Center in conjunction with the New Orleans Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art.
1990
Lynda Benglis: Trophies, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis, Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Lynda Benglis: Sculpture and Silk Paintings, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
Lynda Benglis: Recent Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA
1989
Lynda Benglis: New Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Drawing with Materials: Process and Image: Works by Lynda Benglis, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA
Florida Fan Dance: A Palmetto Series. Monotype Prints by Lynda Benglis, Michael Murphy Gallery, Tampa, Florida, USA
Lynda Benglis, Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, USA
1988
Lynda Benglis, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Lynda Benglis: Recent Sculpture, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
Lynda Benglis: Recent Sculpture and Works on Paper, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
1987
Lynda Benglis: New Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Lynda Benglis: Monoprints/Windy Hill Series, Landfall EastLyn, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis: Recent Sculpture, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
1986
Lynda Benglis: Glass, Dart Gallery, Chicago, USA
Lynda Benglis, Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, USA
Lynda Benglis, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1985
Lynda Benglis: Recent Wall Pieces and Glass Sculpture, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Lynda Benglis: Glass, Dart Gallery, Chicago, USA
Lynda Benglis: New Works in Glass, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Lynda Benglis: Works in Glass, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1984
Lynda Benglis, Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, USA
Lynda Benglis: Recent Sculpture, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
Lynda Benglis: New Sculpture, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis at First City Center, Cadillac Fairview First City Center, Dallas, USA
1983
Lynda Benglis: Sculpture, Dart Gallery, Chicago, USA
Lynda Benglis: New Sculpture, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
1982
Lynda Benglis “ΕΙ∆OΛΑ,” Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
ΕΙ∆ΩΛΑ Benglis, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis: Flux & Fusion: An Exhibition of Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Lynda Benglis: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1981
Lynda Benglis, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
Lynda Benglis: Recent Gold Pieces, Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida, USA
Lynda Benglis: New Work, Dart Gallery, Chicago, USA
Lynda Benglis: Recent Work, Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Lynda Benglis: Indian Wood Block Series, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
Lynda Benglis, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1980
Lynda Benglis: New Work, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Lynda Benglis, Woodland Gallery, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Lynda Benglis: Recent Works, David Heath Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Lynda Benglis: Aquanots, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Fans (Air) Kites (Air) Airport (Air). Lynda Benglis: “Patang.” The Atlanta Airport Commission and New Works Executed in Ahmedabad, India
Recent Works by Lynda Benglis, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon, USA
Lynda Benglis, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Lynda Benglis 1968–1978, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. Traveled to: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables
Lynda Benglis: Cast Paper Multiples, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
1979
Lynda Benglis: Recent Works, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Lynda Benglis: Bodies and Fans, Hansen-Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Lynda Benglis: Wall Sculptures and Floor Installations, Real Art Ways, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Lynda Benglis, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
Lynda Benglis: New Works, Dart Gallery, Chicago, USA
Lynda Benglis: New Work, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
1978
Lynda Benglis, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
1977
Lynda Benglis: Copper Knots and Floor Sculpture, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
7 Come 11: A Series of Recent Sculpture by Lynda Benglis, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1976
Lynda Benglis: Videotapes, AND/OR, Seattle, Washington, USA
Lynda Benglis Presents the Amazing Bow-Wow, The Kitchen, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis: Metallized Knots and Wax Paintings, Paula Cooper Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1975
Lynda Benglis, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
Lynda Benglis: Video Polaroids, The Kitchen, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis: Sculpture, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Physical and Psychological Moments in Time: A First Retrospective of the Video Work of Lynda Benglis, Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York College at Oneonta. Traveled to: the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1974
Lynda Benglis: Knots, Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Lynda Benglis Presents Metallized Knots, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
1973
Lynda Benglis: Sparkle Knots, The Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, USA
Lynda Benglis, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
Lynda Benglis, Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, California, USA
Dimensional Paintings and Videotapes, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon, USA
Lynda Benglis: Paintings and Videotapes, Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Lynda Benglis: Video Tapes, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA. Traveled to: Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, USA
1972
Lynda Benglis: Wax Paintings, Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1971
Lynda Benglis: Polyurethane Foam, Two-Component System, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Lynda Benglis, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
The Kansas State University Union Art Gallery and the Kansas State University Department of Art Invitational Exhibition ’71, Union Art Galleries, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA
1970
Lynda Benglis, Galerie Hans Müller, Cologne, Germany
Lynda Benglis, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, USA
Lynda Benglis, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
1969
Lynda Benglis, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA
Lynda Benglis, Paula Cooper Gallery, Nova York, USA
Teachings
Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT (1997-98, 1998-99)
Yale University, Senior Critic (Autumn 1994)
College of Santa Fe, NM (5/94, summer 1995)
Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, SF, NM (5/93, summer 1994, 3/96)
Visiting Professor, School of Visual Arts, Fine Arts Workshop, NY (autumn 1985–1996)
Visiting Professor, University of Arizona Department of Art, Tucson, AZ, 1982
Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA 1979 & 1999
Visiting Artist, Kent State University, OH, USA 1977
Visiting Professor, California Institute of the Arts, CA, USA 1976
Visiting Professor, Princeton University, NJ, USA 1975
Visiting Professor, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA 1974
Assistant Professor, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA 1972-73
Visiting Artist, Yale-Norfolk Summer School, CT, USA 1972
Assistant Professor of Sculpture, University of Rochester, NY, USA 1970-72
Honors & Awards
Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2022
Art Basel Miami Beach Women in the Arts Honoree, 2014
New Museum Gala Honoree, 2014
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2012
Honored by The Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey, 2012
Sculpture Center Gala Honoree, 2010
Honorary Doctorate, Kansas City Art Institute, 2000
National Endowment for the Arts, 1990
National Council of Art Administration, 1989
Olympiad of Art Sculpture Park, Korea, 1988
Delphi Art Symposium, 1988
Minos Beach Art Symposium, 1988
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1979
Australian Art Council Award, 1976
Artpark Grant, 1976
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975
Max Beckmann Scholarship, The Brooklyn Museum, 1965
Yale-Norfolk Scholarship, 1963
Museum and Public Collections
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, USA
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, USA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Bergen Museum, Bergen, Norway
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, USA
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, USA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, USA
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Cranbrook Design Center, Detroit, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, USA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, USA
Denver Museum of Art, Denver, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, USA
Gihon Foundation, Santa Fe, USA
Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, USA
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, USA
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, USA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Imperial Calcasieu Museum, Lake Charles, USA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
K-State Student Union at Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA
Masur Museum, Monroe, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, USA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, USA
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, USA
Exhibitions
