FRANCISCA BENITEZ
Born in Santiago, Chile, 1974.
Lives and works in New York since 1998.
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Solo Exhibitions
2009 - EIGENTUMSGRENZE, Nada.Lokal, Vienna, Austria
2009 - Chamber, Lokal.int, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland
2008 - 450 W 42, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey, US
2007 - Prótesis del Nuevo Exodo, Die ecke, Santiago, Chile
2006 - The making of Golden Warriors, Medianoche, New York, US
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Brucennial 2010, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, US
Colectiva Dieecke, Die ecke Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Unplanned, Superfront, Los Angeles, US
Making Space, Superfront, Brooklyn, New York, US
2009
Reinventing Ritual, The Jewish Museum, New York, US
140 characters or less, Jason Rulnick Inc, New York, US
Beijing Biennale, Turn on, Tune In, Drop out / Constellations, Beijing, China
Post it City, Cidades Ocasionais, Centre Cultural de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Post-it City, Ciudades Ocasionales, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
Relaciones, utopías de proximidad, Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala
SQUAT, evicted building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Visión:f(icción), Instituto Cervantes, Beijing, China
Berlin change plus vite que mon coeur, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
Les Frontières Invisibles, Tri Postal, Lille, France
Preemptive Resistances, Westport Arts Center, Conneticut, US
2008
The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality, Exit Art, New York, US
Post-it City, 4 case studies, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand
Occasional Cities, Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain
Life is all about taking things in and putting things out, Salón Tudor, Santiago, Chile
2007
Babylon, Festival de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Spain
Expediente Die ecke 01, Valenzuela Klenner Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
Daniel López Show, White Box/ Roebling Hall, New York, US
País de Poetas, Rotunda gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US
Legal Aliens, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio, US
Re:Generation, Smack Mellon/ Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York, US
2006
Legal Aliens, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York, US
Too much freedom? LA Frewaves 10th biennial of film, video and new media, Los Angeles, US
Contragolpe: Reenacting a failed operation, Instituto Divorciado, Berlin, Germany
Domestic Affairs, Gamle Mølla Kunstskole, Moss, Norway
Double Exposure, Makor Gallery, New York, US
Wild Girls, Exit Art, New York, US
Domestic Affairs, Projekt 0047, Berlin, Germany
01 de mayo: revisión, arteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Latin Flow, The Armory Show, Exit Art Booth, New York, US
The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, US
Videopulsiones, Festival X, Lisboa, Portugal
2005
Jornadas de Autonomía Aérea, KBB, Barcelona, Spain
Sugar Plumbs, Makor Gallery, New York, US
Re:Generation, Mabel Smith Douglass Library, New Brunswick, US
Parrilla, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
Occasional Cities, Centro de Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
BROOKLin VIDEO, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
2004
Illegal Carnival, 173 N 7 Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, US
Terrorvision, Exit Art, New York, US
2003
VI Bienal de Nuevos Medios/ Concurso Juan Downey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago
2002
6th International Festival of Architecture in Video, Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy
2001
Density, Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain
Building Codes: The Programmable City, Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York, US
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Selected Screenings
2009
Berlin changes faster than my heart, Atelier Nuovo Montevergini, Palermo, Italy
Lil Joe's, 9/11, Porn, Yanks and Murder..., IMT Gallery, London, UK
Miradas (des)territoriales, Alianza Francesa / Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008
This American Life, Montello International Airport, Bergen, Norway
Visionarios, Audiovisual en Lationamérica, Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
IN/OUT, East Asia Contemporary, Shanghai, China
2007
Political Landscape: Recent Video Art from Chile, Kunsthalle Berlin-Lichtenberg, Germany
2006
Mastered, Pioneer Theater, New York, US
IN/OUT, MediaNoche, New York, US
Si Po: La nouvelle scène artistique Chilienne, Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen, Paris, France
Cut & Paste: New Identities, New Territories, Makor Gallery, New York, US
2005
What means free, Freespace at Chelsea Hotel, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, US
Otra Pichanga, Monkeytown, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, US
Pichanga, 173 N 7 Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, US
Compilation #3 L’invention du rire, Videobox MissChinaLunchBox, Paris, France
2003
Tikkun Leil Shavuot, New York University, New York, US
2002
Architecture and the Moving Image, Columbia University, New York, US
Architectures Hybrides, Annexia, Toulouse, France
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Education
Master in Fine Arts, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 2002-2006
MFA Exchange Program, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, 2005
Bachelor of Architecture and professional license, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 1992-1998
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Grants / Fellowships
2009 - Rotunda Gallery/ BRIC video residency, New York
2007 - New York State Council on the Arts, Independent Project Grant, New York
2006 - Lambent Fellowship, TIDES Foundation, New York
2006 - FONDART, Chilean Government, Chile
2001 - Amerigo Marras Fellowship, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
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Public Archives
Centro de Documentación de las Artes, CCPLM, Santiago, Chile. (videos)
SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online (publications)
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Lectures / Talks
2008 - Art and social change, a conversation with The Rural Haiti Project, Blick Art Materials, New York
2008 - On Gordon Matta-Clark, Salón Tudor, Santiago, Chile
2007 - Diálogo con Isabel García y Die ecke, Centro de Documentación de las Artes, CCPLM, Chile
2006 - The making of Golden Warriors, Medianoche, New York, US
2005 - Ephemeral Constructs, Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain
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Publications
Il Patrimonio e l'abitare, Carmen Andriani, Donzelli Editore, Roma, 2010
A Prior Magazine, issue #18: The New York Conversations, Brussels 2008
Post-it City, Ciudades Ocasionales, Exhibition Catalog, CCCB, Barcelona, 2008
Block #4/ Occasional Cities, Block Magazine, Tel Aviv, Israel, Spring 2007
La Ciudad como Escuela / The City as School, ARQ (Santiago), Dec. 2006
No hay nadie en Paris, Spam_arq, Santiago, Chile, May 2006
Palomares: Notas de Edición / Pigeon Coops: Editing Notes, ARQ (Santiago), Dec. 2003
I NY, Kelly Burns. 4am Press, New York, 2003
Beyond Media/ Oltre Media: 6th International Festival for Architecture in Video, Florence, Editrice Compositori, Italy, 2002
Palomares/ Sukkah, Quaderns, # 235: Used City II, 2002
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Reviews
Plotzing Over The ‘Reinventing Ritual’ Show by Andy Port,
T Magazine of The New York Times, Sept.14 2009
Preemptive Resistances: Critical Pointers in Latin American Art by Tatiana Flores,
Art Nexus, Issue #73 Jun/Aug 2009
Instant Cities by Alexander McSpadden, DAM #16 (Brussels), April/May 2008
Prótesis del Nuevo Exodo by Enrique Solanich, Arte Al Limite, June 2007
Re:Generation Emerging Women Artists by Lori Cole, Artforum, critics' picks, March 2007
Aliens in Our Midst by Wayne Hodge, The Reeler, 6/12/2006
Agitprop by Steven Menashi, The New York Sun, 22/7/2004
Terrorvision y mas allá by Ana Tiscornia, Brecha, 18/6/2004
Beyond Media/Oltre Media by Lavinia Garulli, Exibart, 3/5/2002
Building Codes on the Wall by Mark Ginsberg, Oculus, October 2001
Deciphering the City’s Hidden Code by J.A. Lobbia, The Village Voice, 82/8/2001
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Teaching / Workshops
2008 - 2010 Art Workshop, Independence Community Center, NYCHA, Brooklyn
2003 - 2008 Art Workshop, Bushwick-Hylan Community Center, NYCHA, Brooklyn
2007 - Art Workshop, Williamsburg Community Center, NYCHA, Brooklyn
2003 - 2004 Art Workshop, Wyckoff Houses Community Center, NYCHA, Brooklyn
2004 - Recycling Studio Summer Program (Bronx), Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). New York
2005 - Architecture Studio workshop, Academy of Urban Planning/ CUP, Brooklyn. New York
2004 - Architecture Studio Summer Program (Harlem), Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). New York
2002 - Architecture Studio, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
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Collaborations/ Volunteer
2010 - Blind sculpture by Gelitin, New York - performer
2009 - Lively Presence, a book by Instituto Divorciado - contributing artist.
2009 - Die Verbotenen Frösche, New York - music performer
2008 - The New York Conversations, A Prior Magazine, issue #18, New York - participant
2007 - RoS Indexical by Yvonne Rainer, New York - performer
2007 - der doppelgänger, song for a short film by Nayra Illic, Sanitago - singer
2007 - Cueca chora con Los Vinelli, Chile - performer
2006 - Flashlight: No soy de aqui no soy de allá by Ivan Navarro, New York - camera
2005 - pok a tok, a video by Tina Schula, New York - performer
2005 - Nutria / Roquerío, New York - singer
2005 - Detén el Invierno by Nutria - video
2004 - Gnatos, Music, New York - music performer
2004 - Homeless lamp the juice sucker by Ivan Navarro, New York - production, location scout, camera
2003 - Wavegarden by Yusuke Obuchi, New York - video
2003 - Words, Images and Spaces: A Language For A New City, 2002, Detroit, US
International Center for Urban Ecology (iCUE) directed by Kyong Park - video
1998 - Shadi & company: Sunday jam sessions, New York - singer
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contact info
Francisca Benitez
234 Huron St.
Brooklyn NY 11222, US
phone: 1.917.449.5187
email: fb.laboratories@gmail.com
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