Ezra Benus is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator who completed his degree in Studio Art (honors) and Jewish Studies at CUNY Hunter College in the Muse Scholars program. His work addresses a range of themes—such as time, care, pain, and illness/health—in his art by drawing on his background and experience in Jewish studies, art history, and embodiment of disability. Benus engages the Self as a site where social, political, and spiritual forces collide through tapping into bodily knowledge and social constructions around values of normativity.
He has presented works at The 8th Floor, Flux Factory, NYU Gallatin Galleries, Dedalus Foundation, Gibney Dance, and most recently at The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery at the JCC Manhattan. He has lectured and consulted at universities and art spaces such as Red Bull Arts in Detroit, Hunter College Art Galleries, Eyebeam, SUNY Purchase, CUE Art Foundation, York College, and Princeton University. Benus was an Erich Fromm Fellow at Paideia Institute in Stockholm and the first Access and Adult Learning Fellow in the education department at the Brooklyn Museum. Recently Ezra co-curated the Visual AIDS' April Web Gallery, with his brother Noah, on themes of care and illness. Ezra is part of ongoing curatorial project Strijd ∞ (pronounced Stride Infinity), working through the infinite struggle for democratization for higher education. This work was exhibited in the Netherlands, Berlin, Ireland, and Italy, along with contributions to published articles in in the "Nomos of Images" research project, based at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (KHI) in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, and recently in the Polish art history journal "Art for the Sake of Democracy". |
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