Kristopher Benedict’s painting process has roots in the visual language of landscape painting and the fundamental question asked by the genre, “how do we frame and try to understand the world around us?”. Landscape painting’s various histories and methodologies offer a way to address notions of escapism, dislocation, and environmental health.
In New York, solo exhibitions include David Richard Gallery, Sue Scott Gallery, and Tibor de Nagy Gallery. Benedict has also had solo exhibitions of his work at Gallery Diet (now Nina Johnson) in Miami, Paris London Hong Kong in Chicago, Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Philadelphia, and the Goodyear Gallery at Dickinson College among other venues. Group exhibitions include those at the David Petersen Gallery in Minneapolis, CTRL gallery in Houston, the University of Florida, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, and the Orlando Museum of Art. Benedict’s artwork is in the public collections of the RISD Museum, Flint Institute of Arts, and The Orlando Museum of Art. He is a graduate of is a graduate of The Cooper Union (BFA, 2000) and Columbia University (MFA, 2002).
Kristopher Benedict is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and an Associate Professor of Painting at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania where he has taught since 2014.
