1994 Caracas, Venezuela. Lives and works in London.
Benshimol’s practice arises from the navigation into the assemblages and nooks within interiority, domestic intimacy and their confluences in everyday life. In her work, she perceives, uses and analyzes the body as an abstract container and reconsiders the permeability and porosity of its corporality as an intrinsic power structure-property. Absorbed by the intimate everyday and the unconscious structures and processes that hold it – she examines, recreates, and edits intimate and mundane gestures, bodily autonomic actions, reactions, and sensations that cohere for their uncontrollable and ephemeral nature. Working mainly with sculpture, Benshimol’s frozen-in-time actions and objects, relics or remains of an absent body live within an awkwardly emulsive and liminal realm; penetrating sensually-but-dissidently pre-established structures and perceptions sitting between the pure and the impure, the dirty and the clean, disgust and pleasure.
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2018-2020 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2012-2016 BA Visual Arts (Cum Laude), Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), Milan, Italy
2010 Summer pre-college program, RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), Providence, US
2017 I Know You Are Collecting a Lot of Light with Ugo Martinez Lázaro, Estudio Beneficencia, Madrid, Spain
2016 Calne, Window Project, curated by Federico Luger, Spazio 22 Milan, Italy
2022 SEX, Moarain House, London, UK
2021 Me and my friends, part 2, Korai, Nicosia, Cyprus
2021 Descripción de un Estado Físico, Galería Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
2021 El Dormitorio, curated by Esther Merinero and Vera Martín, CCCC Centro del Carme Cultura Contemporánea, Valencia, Spain
2021 Reconfigured, curated by Rose Easton, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, US
2021 Claro del Bosque, Intersticio, Madrid, Spain
2020 Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2020 London Grads Now, curated by Januario Jano, Saatchi Gallery, London UK
2020 Un gesto que permanece, curated by Vera Martin, Salón, Madrid, Spain
2020 Heterotopia, curated by Felice Moramarco, Oen gallery, Kabelvåg, Norway
2020 Pou sou nefko peu paeis, Korai, Nicosia, Cyprus
2019 The one that’s always there, the one that came late, the one that never arrived, the one that wasn’t invited, SB34-The Pool, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Solo show, curated by Casa Antillón, Casabanchel, Madrid, Spain
2019 Interim Show MFA Goldsmiths, Deptford studios, London, UK
2019 Ni sí, ni no; ni blanco, ni negro, curated by Archipiélago, Madrid, Spain
2019 Long Live The New Flesh, The Biscuit Factory, London, UK
2019 Mater Matter, curated by Valeria Biamonti, Via San Primo 4, Milan, Italy
2019 Baldea, curated by Esther Merinero and Vera Martín, Calle Islas Británicas 5 Madrid, Spain
2019 Casa Antillón, curated by Casa Antillón, Madrid, Spain
2018 Archipiélago, Former British Embassy in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2017 Mediterranea 17 Biennale, EXOTIC EMBASSY with Mati Jhurry, Tirana, Albania
2016 Como era gostoso o meu francês, curated by Marlon de Azambuja and Maya Saravia, Espacio OTR, Madrid, Spain
2016 Aviso di Garanzia, Fuori Uso, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Pescara, Italy
2015 Theatre of Learning, Reinterpretation of Waltz by Joan Jonas in collaboration with Mati Jhurry, curated by Marco Scotini, NABA, Milan, Italy
2022 Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 Shortlisted artist VIA Arts Prize 2020 Finalists’ Exhibition
2020 Residency at The New Artist, online platform, London, UK
2017 Sculpture summer residency, SVA, New York, USA
2017 Honour Mention at Mediterranea 17 Biennale – with Mati Jhurry, Tirana, Albania
2017 Residency at HANGAR Centro de Investigacão Artística, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 Residency at Affect at Agora (Conglomerate), Berlin, Germany
2016 Residency at Spazio /77, Milan, Italy
2015 Selected artist at Showcase Villaggio d’Artista, Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy
March 2022 – Elephant Magazine – ‘Elephant’s pick of March’s Essential Artists’
Jan 2022 – AD Spain – ‘Descripción de un Estado Físico’ at Galeria Elba Benitez
July 2021 – AD Spain – ‘El Dormitorio’ at CCCC Centro del Carme Cultura Contemporánea
May 2021 – Wallpaper – ‘Reconfigured’ at Timothy Taylor NY
May 2021 – Art Viewer – ‘Claro del Bosque’ at Intersticio
Sept 2017 – Interview with Sink.sexy