Talk

BFA Fine Arts presents a visiting artist lecture with Simon Benjamin.

Simon Benjamin is a Jamaican multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in New York. His practice considers how the past ripples into the present in unexpected ways. Using the sea and coastal space as frameworks, his current work explores how lesser-known histories and colonial legacies impact our present and contribute to an interconnected future. 

His work has been included in exhibitions and screenings internationally, including the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA (2024); Malta Biennale, Birgu, Malta (2024); Swivel Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania (2023), Baxter St. CCNY, New York, NY (2023); documenta 15, Kassel, Germany (2022); Kingston Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (2022); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governor’s Island, NY; Third Horizon film Festival, Miami, FL (2022); trinidad+tobago film festival, Trinidad and Tobago (2021); NYU Gallatin at Governors Island, New York, NY (2021); Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY (2019); the Ghetto Biennial, Port Au Prince, Haiti (2018); Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (2017); New Local Space, (NLS) Kingston (2016); and Columbia University, New York, NY (2016).