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Residencies, Fellowships, Awards
2022-2023 BRIClab Contemporary Art Residency, BRIC
2022 Artist2Artist Fellow, ArtMatters Foundation
2020-2021 SHIFT Artist Residency, EFA Project Space
2020 Winter Workspace Residency, Wave Hill
2018-2019 Art & Disability Residency, Art Beyond Sight
2018-2019 Brooklyn Museum, Museum Education Fellow
2017 Erich Fromm Fellow, Paideia Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Exhibitions
2024
Towards a Warm Embrace, Print Center New York, November 7, 2024- February 8, 2025
To Hold a We, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY September 19-December 22
Towards a Warm Embrace, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, MN, January 11-April 14
2023
Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, October 6, 2023-January 21, 2024
Presents, video screening at VIVO (Vancouver) and HAU (Berlin)
Art of Disruption, Art Prize, Juried Winner, Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 14-October 1
Chronicles of the Chronic, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota, August 26, 2023 - April 3, 2024
Tell Me Where It Hurts, Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, pop-up one night exhibition June 9, 2023
A Picture of Health: Jo Spence, a Politics of Disability and Illness, online exhibition
2022
Rainbow, Galerie Analix Forever, Switzerland, December 3, 2022-February 7, 2023
Kingdom Of The Ill at Museion, Bolzano, Italy, October 1, 2022 -March 5, 2023
Crip Ritual, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada, February 8-April 1
Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape, Art Windsor Essex, Canada, February 19-May 22
2021
Crip Time, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) Frankfurt, Germany, September 18, 2021-January 30, 2022
We Turn, EFA Project Space, SHIFT Residency Exhibition, June 18-July 17
Political Intimacy, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY. April 29-June 22
Up Close: Phases and the In-Betweens, The Shed, online, January 13-February 11
2020
The Future Is Loading... Shape Arts, UK., online exhibition, essay and visual works
Protocols Issue #8: Contracting At The Seams: Bodiless at the Bimah
2019
My Body Is The House We Live In at Gibney Dance, pdf with more info
TALK BACK, Flux Factory, Queens, NY, May 9-June 2
Crip Impoderabilia, NYU Gallatin Galleries, curated by Bojana Coklyat, April 18-May 1
Many Ways To Raise a Fist, featured in Jerron Herman’s work at Whitney Museum. Jerron elaborates on the art in his dance work in Wordgathering.
2018
Means of Egress, Dedalus Foundation, October 4-November 18
Locus: Art as a Disabled Space, The 8th Floor, May 23-26
Select Press and Publications
Hyperallergic, “Artists With Disabilities Show Us How We’ve Failed”
How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic, NYU Press
Movement Research Performance Journal, Issue #57, essay, “Not Alone, Not A Loan: On Collecting and Gathering”
Kingdom of the Ill, Reader, Hatje Cantz
Welt Kunst
Arts Of The Working Class, Kingdom of the Ill
Publico, ípsilon, pdf scan in Portuguese
SDUK, Issue 13: Lingering, commission, University of Toronto, Missusuaga, Blackwood Gallery
Ocula, Crip Time: Beyond Abled Perspectives
Art Agenda, “Crip Time”
ArtForum “best of 2021”, Pareidolia (Vaccinate Now), listed #1 by Susanne Pfeffer
What Does a COVID-19 Doula Do? Zine, Pages 27-28
Eazel, “The Exquisite Elevation and Engagement of Routine Rituals”
The New York Times, New York Art Galleries: What To See Right Now, Talk Back
Lutte Collective, artist feature
Select Panels and Interviews
Flipboard: On Curation Podcast Series, 2022
Cuéntame, Virtual Gallery, artist feature, 2021
Abrons Art Center, Access Intimacy in the Arts: A Conversation with Ezra Benus, Taraneh Fazeli, and Owólabi Aboyade, 2021
York College Fine Art Gallery, organized by No Longer Empty Accessibility Workshop for Curators+ 2018
Princeton University, Ezra Benus: Disabilities, Art, & Jewishness 2018
CUE Art Foundation, Access/Points: Approaches to Disability Arts 2018
Curatorial and Programmatic Projects
Baxter St. Camera Club of NY, 2024 Curatorial Open Call recipient A small patch of sand, yet it holds so much, 2024
CUE Art Foundation, Crip’d Art Ecologies: Fermenting Crip’d Desire, Grief, Celebration, and Rage 2021
Visual AIDS An Army of The Sick Can’t Be Defeated: Reflections on Care Work in Perpetual Sick Times, 2020
Gibney, My Body Is The House That We Live In 2019
Flux Factory Crip Ecologies Of Emergent Pain, public program closing event for Talk Back, 2019
For Freedoms x Brooklyn Museum, Town Hall: Art, Disability, Labor 2018
The 8th Floor (Rubin Foundation), Locus: Art as a Disabled Space 2018
Teaching Experience
School of Making Thinking, Summer School, course Pain as a Portal, Summer 2024
Print Center of New York, freelance educator, February 2024 - present
Jewish Museum, guest educator on accessibility, Virtual Summer Institute, Summers 2020-2024
Brooklyn Museum, September 2018-July 2019
Brandeis University, Community Arts Educator Summers 2016, 2017
Jewish Community Project, Teacher (2nd & 5th Grade), academic years 2013-2014, 2015-2016
2015-2017
Wright State University Breaking Silences, Demanding Crip Justice: Sex, Sexuality, and Disability, 2017.
Per Forma: Transition and Identity Performance of "לֹך לֹך/Go Forth/Go To Yourself" Collaboration with Anna Korbasova at Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. 2016
'Per Forma' was curated by Alice Maselnikova as part of a degree project within Curating Art, International Master's Programme at Stockholm University. The project was presented in collaboration with Europa Direkt Intercult and Fylkingen Studios
Hej Hej PALS Performance Art Festival Performance “Fourth Text” with Anna Korbasova. Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. 2016
Cult. Magazine, Issue #5 pp. 23, Winter 2014/2015
Misc.
“Strijd ∞ - a Performative Exhibition.” Art for the Sake of Democracy, Issue 16 (2017): 133-141.
Benus, E., Breugelmans, T., Buta, C., Eckenhaussen, S., Kerchman, A., Lerm Hayes, C.M, Rhodes, E., Smalen, J., Sperling, F.,
“A Showcase: 12 Jewish Artist-Educators You Should Know”, Sight Line Magazine, Covenant Foundation, October 18, 2017, Online.
“Sculpture, 'Zines, and The Book of Jonah: BIMA’s Artists’ Beit Midrash”, Sight Line Magazine, Covenant Foundation, October 16, 2017, Online.
Strijd ∞
(Curatorial group)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2/25/2015-ongoing
Art History students added the Strijd ∞ exhibition to the visual culture of the Maagdenhuis protest/occupation until the eviction of all protesters, and afterwards was exhibited throughout Europe.
The Doping Agency: Second Show (xWhy Empire)
08/20/2014, Ella Lounge, New York
Muse Scholars Showcase
(Curator and exhibitor)
03/25/2014, CUNY Hunter College, New York
Muse Scholars Inaugural Showcase
(Curator and exhibitor)
05/08/2013, CUNY Hunter College, New York
2022-2023 BRIClab Contemporary Art Residency, BRIC
2022 Artist2Artist Fellow, ArtMatters Foundation
2020-2021 SHIFT Artist Residency, EFA Project Space
2020 Winter Workspace Residency, Wave Hill
2018-2019 Art & Disability Residency, Art Beyond Sight
2018-2019 Brooklyn Museum, Museum Education Fellow
2017 Erich Fromm Fellow, Paideia Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Exhibitions
2024
Towards a Warm Embrace, Print Center New York, November 7, 2024- February 8, 2025
To Hold a We, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY September 19-December 22
Towards a Warm Embrace, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, MN, January 11-April 14
2023
Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, October 6, 2023-January 21, 2024
Presents, video screening at VIVO (Vancouver) and HAU (Berlin)
Art of Disruption, Art Prize, Juried Winner, Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 14-October 1
Chronicles of the Chronic, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota, August 26, 2023 - April 3, 2024
Tell Me Where It Hurts, Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, pop-up one night exhibition June 9, 2023
A Picture of Health: Jo Spence, a Politics of Disability and Illness, online exhibition
2022
Rainbow, Galerie Analix Forever, Switzerland, December 3, 2022-February 7, 2023
Kingdom Of The Ill at Museion, Bolzano, Italy, October 1, 2022 -March 5, 2023
Crip Ritual, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada, February 8-April 1
Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape, Art Windsor Essex, Canada, February 19-May 22
2021
Crip Time, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) Frankfurt, Germany, September 18, 2021-January 30, 2022
We Turn, EFA Project Space, SHIFT Residency Exhibition, June 18-July 17
Political Intimacy, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY. April 29-June 22
Up Close: Phases and the In-Betweens, The Shed, online, January 13-February 11
2020
The Future Is Loading... Shape Arts, UK., online exhibition, essay and visual works
Protocols Issue #8: Contracting At The Seams: Bodiless at the Bimah
2019
My Body Is The House We Live In at Gibney Dance, pdf with more info
TALK BACK, Flux Factory, Queens, NY, May 9-June 2
Crip Impoderabilia, NYU Gallatin Galleries, curated by Bojana Coklyat, April 18-May 1
Many Ways To Raise a Fist, featured in Jerron Herman’s work at Whitney Museum. Jerron elaborates on the art in his dance work in Wordgathering.
2018
Means of Egress, Dedalus Foundation, October 4-November 18
Locus: Art as a Disabled Space, The 8th Floor, May 23-26
Select Press and Publications
Hyperallergic, “Artists With Disabilities Show Us How We’ve Failed”
How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic, NYU Press
Movement Research Performance Journal, Issue #57, essay, “Not Alone, Not A Loan: On Collecting and Gathering”
Kingdom of the Ill, Reader, Hatje Cantz
Welt Kunst
Arts Of The Working Class, Kingdom of the Ill
Publico, ípsilon, pdf scan in Portuguese
SDUK, Issue 13: Lingering, commission, University of Toronto, Missusuaga, Blackwood Gallery
Ocula, Crip Time: Beyond Abled Perspectives
Art Agenda, “Crip Time”
ArtForum “best of 2021”, Pareidolia (Vaccinate Now), listed #1 by Susanne Pfeffer
What Does a COVID-19 Doula Do? Zine, Pages 27-28
Eazel, “The Exquisite Elevation and Engagement of Routine Rituals”
The New York Times, New York Art Galleries: What To See Right Now, Talk Back
Lutte Collective, artist feature
Select Panels and Interviews
Flipboard: On Curation Podcast Series, 2022
Cuéntame, Virtual Gallery, artist feature, 2021
Abrons Art Center, Access Intimacy in the Arts: A Conversation with Ezra Benus, Taraneh Fazeli, and Owólabi Aboyade, 2021
York College Fine Art Gallery, organized by No Longer Empty Accessibility Workshop for Curators+ 2018
Princeton University, Ezra Benus: Disabilities, Art, & Jewishness 2018
CUE Art Foundation, Access/Points: Approaches to Disability Arts 2018
Curatorial and Programmatic Projects
Baxter St. Camera Club of NY, 2024 Curatorial Open Call recipient A small patch of sand, yet it holds so much, 2024
CUE Art Foundation, Crip’d Art Ecologies: Fermenting Crip’d Desire, Grief, Celebration, and Rage 2021
Visual AIDS An Army of The Sick Can’t Be Defeated: Reflections on Care Work in Perpetual Sick Times, 2020
Gibney, My Body Is The House That We Live In 2019
Flux Factory Crip Ecologies Of Emergent Pain, public program closing event for Talk Back, 2019
For Freedoms x Brooklyn Museum, Town Hall: Art, Disability, Labor 2018
The 8th Floor (Rubin Foundation), Locus: Art as a Disabled Space 2018
Teaching Experience
School of Making Thinking, Summer School, course Pain as a Portal, Summer 2024
Print Center of New York, freelance educator, February 2024 - present
Jewish Museum, guest educator on accessibility, Virtual Summer Institute, Summers 2020-2024
Brooklyn Museum, September 2018-July 2019
Brandeis University, Community Arts Educator Summers 2016, 2017
Jewish Community Project, Teacher (2nd & 5th Grade), academic years 2013-2014, 2015-2016
2015-2017
Wright State University Breaking Silences, Demanding Crip Justice: Sex, Sexuality, and Disability, 2017.
Per Forma: Transition and Identity Performance of "לֹך לֹך/Go Forth/Go To Yourself" Collaboration with Anna Korbasova at Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. 2016
'Per Forma' was curated by Alice Maselnikova as part of a degree project within Curating Art, International Master's Programme at Stockholm University. The project was presented in collaboration with Europa Direkt Intercult and Fylkingen Studios
Hej Hej PALS Performance Art Festival Performance “Fourth Text” with Anna Korbasova. Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. 2016
Cult. Magazine, Issue #5 pp. 23, Winter 2014/2015
Misc.
“Strijd ∞ - a Performative Exhibition.” Art for the Sake of Democracy, Issue 16 (2017): 133-141.
Benus, E., Breugelmans, T., Buta, C., Eckenhaussen, S., Kerchman, A., Lerm Hayes, C.M, Rhodes, E., Smalen, J., Sperling, F.,
“A Showcase: 12 Jewish Artist-Educators You Should Know”, Sight Line Magazine, Covenant Foundation, October 18, 2017, Online.
“Sculpture, 'Zines, and The Book of Jonah: BIMA’s Artists’ Beit Midrash”, Sight Line Magazine, Covenant Foundation, October 16, 2017, Online.
Strijd ∞
(Curatorial group)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2/25/2015-ongoing
Art History students added the Strijd ∞ exhibition to the visual culture of the Maagdenhuis protest/occupation until the eviction of all protesters, and afterwards was exhibited throughout Europe.
The Doping Agency: Second Show (xWhy Empire)
08/20/2014, Ella Lounge, New York
Muse Scholars Showcase
(Curator and exhibitor)
03/25/2014, CUNY Hunter College, New York
Muse Scholars Inaugural Showcase
(Curator and exhibitor)
05/08/2013, CUNY Hunter College, New York
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