About Nathaniel Benjamin

As an artist my work is constantly evolving, anchored to my interest in the human figure, the interaction between mind and body, and our experience of the world through symbols.

In my most recent prints and paintings I appropriate the visual language of digital media. By filtering digital symbols and characters through my body with traditional materials and processes I reinvest them with the emotional and physical qualities they lack in their original context. My work removes the screen, placing emojis, icons, and windows alongside portraits, human anatomy, and momento mori in a space where digital technology's illusory nature becomes grotesquely apparent.

The digital world is embedded in us and it affects how we experience reality. These prints and paintings represent the world as simultaneously singular and binary in an effort to reintroduce the digitally-saturated mind to the body, and through this pose questions about power, control, identity, and the relationship between self and other.