Ezra Benus (b. 1993, New York) has studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, the University of Amsterdam, and completed his degree in Studio Art (honors) and Jewish Studies at CUNY Hunter College in NYC. Ezra graduated as an Erich Fromm Fellow from Paideia Institute in Stockholm, where he completed an intensive 8 month long Jewish Studies fellowship. He was the first Access and Adult Learning Fellow at Brooklyn Museum, 2018-19.
Through his paintings, sculptures, and performances, Ezra's artwork confronts social and cultural assumptions on the topics of disease/illness and disability, pain, care, relationships of vulnerability, bodies, religion. He took part in Disability/Arts/NYC/Taskforce (DANT), working to promote the practice and policy of Disability Artistry in NYC. The Covenant Foundation listed Ezra as 1 of 12 "Jewish Artist-Educators You Should Know", having taught art for three summers at Brandeis University's pre-college program Brandeis Institute for Art and Music (BIMA). He has spoken publicly about his art and disability arts activism at venues such as CUE Art Foundation, York College, and Princeton University. He has exhibited/performed nationally and internationally in Jerusalem, Stockholm, NYC, Dayton, Ohio, and Calgary, Alberta. Ezra is part of 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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