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Christopher Joshua Benton (born 30 June 1988) is an American visual artist. Known for his large-scale installations and socially engaged art projects, Benton’s practice also includes filmmaking, archiving, and artistic research to visualize diasporic resistance in material and intangible culture.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Benton was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was raised by his mother, an elementary school teacher.
Benton studied English literature and journalism at the University of Georgia, with intermediary studies at the University Oxford as a Gilman Scholar. Later he completed the Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) master’s program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned the Schnitzer Prize and the Obermayer Prize. While at MIT, he also studied at Harvard University with Jacob Olupona and his mentor Tania Brugera. His graduate research into Black foodways in Nation Islam was subsequently published by MIT Press and Columbia University Press.[2]
He started his career in New York City as a fashion stylist at W Magazine and as an advertiser on Madison Avenue working with brands like the NFL and Conde Nast. In 2019, he was hired as the creative director for the Chinese tech company Huawei.
Recognition
[edit]In 2022, Benton earned the Future Black Visionary prize[3], awarded by Meta and Brooklyn Museum, for his work on the Chocolate City Dance Map, made in collaboration with the MIT Immersion Lab. Benton was a finalist for the Artadia prize in 2023. His participation in Abu Dhabi Art was the subject of a solo profile on CNN
Art
[edit]In 2020, Benton’s installation “How to Be at Rest” debuted at Dubai Design Week and was featured on Dezeen, Architectural Digest, and the BBC. It was subsequently shown at Jameel Arts Centre and Al Seef Festival.
In 2021, Benton presented “The World Was My Garden,” which focused on the date, a ubiquitous fruit whose cultivation coincided with the Indian Ocean slave trade and ongoing issues of identity and class in California and the Gulf region. In 2022, the work was remounted at Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti at the 52nd Venice Biennial.
References
[edit]- ^ "Beyond Bowties & Bean Pies: A Material Analytic Approach to Eating & Meaning-making in the Nation of Islam". scholar.google.com.
- ^ Zigbi-Johnson, Najha, ed. (August 4, 2024). "Mapping Malcolm". Columbia Books on Architecture and the City – via Columbia University Press.
- ^ https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/instagram-awards-black-visionaries-in-brooklyn-november-17-2022