Born 1978, Los Angeles, USA
Lives and works in Paris, France
Education
1999–2004 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA
2004–2006 Staedelschule, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2024
Throwing Bodies at the Problem, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2023
Pandemonium (musical performance), Bourse de la Commerce, Paris, France
2022
Dialogue of the Dogs, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Idéal Pain, Basement Roma, Rome, Italy
2019
Degrees of Disgust (filmscreening), Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
2018
The Restaurant (with Steffen Jørgensen), Converso, Milan, Italy
Recent Video, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, USA
New Painting and Video, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
2017
The Social Democrat, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Fiction is a Terrible enemy, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
Law and Order, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2016
I Make Tacky (with Katie McKay), What Pipeline, Detroit, USA
I AM A PROBLEM, Rob Tufnell, London, UK
Malaria (with Anita Leisz), Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, Germany
2015
New Videos with David Leonard, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
New Posters and Paintings for an Underground Parking Garage, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France
A Bone in the Cheese, Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA
Bad Weather, Overduin & Co, Los Angeles, USA
2014
Corruption Feeds, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Bloat with Henning Bohl, Castillo Corrales, Paris, France
Comparison Leads to Violence, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
Blé, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Almost Human, YEARS, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
T.V. Dinner: The Narcissism of Minor Differences, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
Black Friday Sample Sale, Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
2012
Dead Sea Sample Sale, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Bread and Butt, w/ Julie Verhoeven, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Bonjour Tourist, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
2011
Will Benedict, Lucie Stahl, Dingum, Eternithaus, Berlin, Germany
Will Benedict, Lucie Stahl, Galerie Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010
Will Benedict, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, Germany
Will Benedict, Lucie Stahl, Caribic Residency, Hamburg, Germany
2009
Will Benedict, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Will Benedict, Sara Deraedt, Förderverein für Aktuelle Kunst, Münster, Germany
2024
Vertigo—Video Scenarios of Rapid Changes, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy
2022
Inner Dims, Sifang Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Exposition 120 (maybe), Balice Hertling, Paris, France
En transit, All Stars x Signal L, Lausanne, Switzerland
2021
Biennal of the Moving Image, Geneva, Switzerland
58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennal, Belgrade, Serbia
Impulse in Color, Balice Hertling, Gallery Weekend, Beijing, China
2020
Your Friends And Neighbors, High Art, Paris, France
DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day?, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
iwillmedievalfutureyou1, Art Center Sonje, Seoul, South Korea (with Peter Wächtler, curated by Jacob Fabricius)
2018
I AM A PROBLEM, MMK, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Weather Outside, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris, France
Vom Handeln, Halle Für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
DIS, Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Spain
2017
Genre-Nonconforming: The DUS Edutainment Network, M.H. de Yong Museum, San Francisco, USA
2016
18e Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Minerva, Sydney, Australia
World Food Books, Melbourne, Australia
Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand
2015
31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA
2014
Warm Math, Balice Hertling at the Film Center, New York, USA
The Hawker, dépendance at Carlos Ishikawa, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Spot, Balice Hertling with Galleria Nilufar, Hôtel Miramion, Paris, France
Will Benedict, Tom Humphreys, Lucie Stahl, UIC, Chicago, USA
Purple Glass, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, USA
Will Benedict, Tom Humphreys, Lucie Stahl, Tomorrow, Toronto, Canada
Catch as Catch Can, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2012
Neue Alte Brücke and Real Fine Arts, Valentin, Paris, France
If there would be a face, this would be a cat, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Used Photo Copier, Hotel, London, UK
The Piano Lesson, Vilma Gold, London, UK
2011
Flaca, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Secretariat, Renwick Gallery, New York, USA
A Hole is to Dig, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Netherlands
2010
Before and After, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
Something Blue, Issue 1, Landings, Oslo, Norway
Something Blue, Pilot issue, Archive Kabinett, Berlin, Germany
2009
Will Benedict, Michael Hall, Tom Humphreys, Wolfram Otto, Kunstbüro, Vienna, Austria
Sleepwalking, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Thomas Bayrle, Will Benedict, Andrei Koschmieder, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2008
Will Benedict, Anita Leisz, Lucie Stahl, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
Will Benedict, Sara Deraedt, Markus Krottendorfer, SongSong, Vienna, Austria
Mystery of the Invisible Clock, curated by Joshua Nathanson, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Zuordnungsprobleme, Galerie Johann Koenig, Berlin, Germany
Zero Track, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Boltenstern.raum, Vienna, Austria
Egypted, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
2007
It Takes Something to Make Something, Sammlung Rausch, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Absolventenausstellung Staedelmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany
Where was I?, curated by Joshua Nathanson, Pauline, Los Angeles, USA
Sex, Tension, Despair, Wow so what!, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Open Dojo, Kreiling and Dodd, Los Angeles, USA
This is Happening, curated by Martin Guttmann, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2006
Weird War, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Ayurvedic, Free Clinic, Chicago, USA
The Common Reader, TPS, San Antonio, USA
Beast or Dressed Like a Beast, Flaca, London, UK
2005
Everything in Particular, curated by Kevin Hainley and Michael Krebber, ACME, Los Angeles, USA
Honey, sometimes your low self esteem is just common sense, Galerie Nomadenoase, Hamburg, Germany
Having Differences, I-20, New York, USA
Winter’s Back Show, Nizza Transfer, Frankfurt, Germany
2004
Provider, Peanutbutter Shop, Los Angeles, USA
Right To Militancy, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA
2019
cafe spit, Galerie PCP, Paris, France
2013
Vertical Club, Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA
TV Dinner: The Narcissism of Minor Differences, Halle Für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
2012
Anita Leisz/ Nora Schultz, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Clegg&Guttmann, Bawag Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Commercial Psycho, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
2011
Edition/ Non-Edition, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Anita Leisz/ Wolfgang Breuer, w/ Lucie Stahl, Renwick Gallery, New York, USA
Pro Choice, w/ Lucie Stahl, Shattendorf Kunstverein, Shattendorf, Austria
2008
Egypted, Kunstverein Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
2007
Michaela Eichwald/ Jana Euler, Egypted, Vienna, Austria
Lucy Dodd/ Josh Nathanson/ Bernhard Willhelm, Egypted, Vienna, Austria
Thomas Bayrle, Egypted, Vienna, Austria
Poster Show, Egypted, Vienna, Austria