TRUDY BENSON | 25 JUNE - 14 AUGUST 2026

Trudy Benson's third solo exhibition with Miles McEnery Gallery opens Thursday 25 June , on view through Friday 14 August 2026 at 511 West 22nd Street. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated digital catalogue featuring an essay by Natalie Haddad.

"The overlapping of virtual and real-life worlds at a formative age arguably fostered a kind of “bilingualism” — a comfort with both worlds that allows for fluid movement between them, which extends to visual perception. Benson’s art draws attention simultaneously to the materiality of the medium and the opticality of the surface. She builds her images layer by layer in a process that gestures toward the discrete layers that compose digital art. But the results are resolutely physical, even as she achieves a trompe l’oeil effect that brings hands-on mark making uncannily close to virtual imagery."

- Natalie Haddad in "Trudy Benson’s Kaleidoscopic Worlds"

"The broad accessibility of digital technologies in the 1980s and ’90s was accompanied by an expansion of pop culture beyond fine art that was coextensive with and influenced by the aesthetic of technology. As fluent as Benson is in art history, I’ve caught glimpses of these sundry artifacts in her visual language. The geometric building blocks of her paintings can recall classic video games like Tetris and Pac-Man. Her airbrushed shapes and squiggles evoke graffiti tags."

- Natalie Haddad in "Trudy Benson’s Kaleidoscopic Worlds"

TRUDY BENSON (b. 1985 in Richmond, VA) received her Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Ceysson & Bénétière, Lyon, France, Saint-Étienne, France, Paris, France, and Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria; Half Gallery, New York, NY; Lisa Cooley, New York, NY; Lyles & King, New York, NY; Massif Central, Brussels, Belgium; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland; and SUNNY NY, New York, NY.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Ceysson & Bénétière, Koerich, Luxembourg; Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton NY; Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany; Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna, Austria; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; m.simons, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO; Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA; Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and The Hole, East Hampton, NY and New York, NY.

Benson’s work may be found in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, New York, NY; Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA; and Susan and Michael Hort Collection, New York, NY.

The artist lives and works in Hudson Valley, NY.

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