Frank Benson (b. 1976, Norfolk, VA) is a contemporary artist based in New York, working in sculpture and photography. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 1998, and his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2003.
Frank Benson’s three-dimensional and photographic works reflect a sustained fascination with concepts of arrested movement and the use of digital tools in the creation of sculpture, and he frequently works at the fore of advancing digital media technologies. Increasingly, he has employed high-tech software in the production of works — for example, translating photographs of human figures into meticulously crafted 3D models that serve as the basis for hyperreal and minutely finished sculptures, as seen in his celebrated series of Human Statue works begun in 2005.
In 2019, Frank Benson's work was the subject of a survey at the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo. His work has been included in major group exhibitions, such as Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body, The Met Breuer, New York, 2018, Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2018, 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York, and The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, 2014, among others.