Jesús Alberto Benítez
Born in 1978 in Valencia, Venezuela
Lives and works in Lyon, France
www.dda-ra.org/benitez
Solo and duo shows :
A Sleep of Bronze, curated by Armando Andrade Tudela, Takini Foundation, Lyon, 2018
On the Plan, Every Structure is Erased, curated by Vincent Verlé, openspace, Nancy, 2016
Eva Barto - Jesús Alberto Benítez, Annex 14 Gallery, Zürich, 2014
Convergence, curated by Aurélien Mole, Dohyang Lee Gallery, Paris, 2014
Dérivative, Rectangle, Brussels, 2013
Pulsar, Caroline Pagès Gallery, Lisbon, 2013
Time is the Tiger, Le Centre d’Arts Plastiques, Saint-Fons, 2013
The Center is Not a Dot, frank elbaz Gallery, Paris, 2012
Paper on the Desk, Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, 2007
Group shows :
Er, ir, oir et re, Usine Chapal, Montreuil, 2025
Marché-Gare, Essox Lucius, Saint-Maurice les Chateauneuf, 2024
Fabriquer l’art? Le Laboratoire d’expériences, works from FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA collection, Chapelle du Carmel, Libourne, 2024
Art in the Chapels, Pontivy, 2021
A ciel ouvert, curated by Studio Ganek, Lyon, 2021
Constellations, Documents d’artistes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourse du Travail, Valence, 2021
Gold, Incense and Myrrh, Dohyang Lee Gallery, Paris, 2020
Dust : The plates of the present, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2020
Photography to the Test of Abstraction, Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France,
Pontault-Combault, 2020
10 Ans de Documents d’artistes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Maison du livre, de l’image et du son, Villeurbanne, 2020
La cité d’images, Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, 2018
The Plates of the Present, So Far, curated by Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang,
galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, 2017
Peinture, Bouture et Mixture, L’attrape Couleurs, Lyon, 2017
Dust: The plates of the Present, curated by Sonel Breslav, Baxter Street, The Camera Club,
New York, 2015
Art Brussels, Annex 14 Gallery, 2015
Un Battement se déplace en spirale, curated by Mathilde du Sordet, Nicolas Silin Gallery, Paris, 2014
La Forêt usagère, curated by Aurélien Mole, Dohyang Lee Gallery, Paris, 2014
Brussels-Cologne Contemporaries, Rectangle, Cologne, 2014
Towards a Hypothesis, Lyon Biennial - Resonance, curated by Andrea Rodríguez Novoa,
Contemporary Art Center Fort du Bruissin, Francheville, 2013
Echos, Lyon Biennial - Focus, Saint-Etienne Modern Art Museum, Le Corbusier site, Firminy, 2013
Which Work?, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Doing, Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France,
Pontault-Combault, 2013
Group Show, frank elbaz Gallery, Paris, 2013
MiArt, frank elbaz Gallery, Milan, 2013
ARCO Madrid, Caroline Pagès Gallery, 2013
Most of the Time, curated by Martial Deflacieux, La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand, 2013
Sir Thomas Trope, curated by Aurélien Mole, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, 2012
Never the Same Twice, curated by Marie Bechetoille and Corinne Digard, Le 6B, Saint-Denis, 2012
The Prairies, curated by Anne Bonnin, Rennes Biennial, 2012
Codex, curated by Pierre Leguillon, LiveInYourHead, Geneva, 2011
Jeune création, Le 104, Paris, 2011
Years of Dust Covering Years of Yellow, curated by Gyan Panchal, Frank Elbaz Gallery, Paris, 2011
The Documentary Evocation, European month of photography, Bratislava, 2009
Panorama de la jeune création, Bourges Biennial, 2008
Identities, Photography’s September, Lyon, 2008
Anonyme Zeichner - Selection, Glue et Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin, 2007
City Grammar, Goethe Institut, Lyon, 2006
International Photography Biennial, Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas, 2006
Bredi-breda, Le Plateau, epxerimental space, Paris, 2005
Collections :
Centre Pompidou, FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MECA, Centre National d’Arts Plastiques,
Art Norac, private collections in Paris, New York, Singapour and Aman
Residencies, grants :
Ateliers du Grand Large, ADERA, Décines, 2015-2018
La Petite Escalère, residency, France, 2017
Aide à la création, DRAC Rhône-Alpes, 2013
Artists in Residency, Clermont-Ferrand, 2011-2012
Postproduction studio, Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, Pontault-Combault, 2010
Projects :
DUST :The plates of present, a project imagined by Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang, Centre Pompidou permanent collection, Paris, France
Incomplete objects, a project in collaboration with Aurélien Mole, 2012
Permanent, curated by Joana Neves and Marie Bechetoille, Orange Rouge, 2012
Curating :
The divisions of volume, La Permanence, Clermont-Ferrand, 2012
Lenghtily accumulated variation, La Permanence, Clermont-Ferrand, 2011
Editions :
3280, poster edition for Documents d’artistes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 2020
Configuration, insert for La Belle Revue, Clermont-Ferrand, 2013
Démésure, insert for Oscillations magazine, n°1, Paris, 2012
Kings, édition NPJSLVP, n°13, ENSBA Lyon, 2006
Publications :
Dust : The plates of the present, Centre Pompidou, catalog, Paris, 2020
Photography to the Test of Abstraction, Hatje Cantz Editions, catalog, Paris, 2020
Putting Images to the Test, by Etienne Hatt, Artpress n°473, Paris, 2020
Rectangle 2012-2018, catalog, Brussels, 2020
Les Cahiers de La Petite Escalère, Paris, 2018
Dust: The Plates of the Present, Secretary Press / Blonde Art Books, catalog, New York, 2015
Impulse of Reversibility, monograph, with essais by Anne Bonnin and Joana Neves,
Adera Editions, Lyon, 2015
L’expérience des marges, Un coup de dés, Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, interview, 2013
Pulsar, Wall Street International Magazine, 2013
The Prairies, Rennes Biennial, catalog, 2013
Des prairies peu ordinaires, Zéro Deux magazine, n°64, Paris, 2012
The New Collectors Book, catalog, New York, 2012
Codex at LiveInYourHead, Kaleidoscope Blog, by Estelle Nabeyrat, Milan, 2011
Jeune creation, catalogue, Paris, 2011
2000-2010, catalog, Ecole Supérieure d’Arts de Rueil-Malmaison, 2011
Month of Photography, catalog, Bratislava, 2009
Mission Jeunes Artistes, Toulouse, 2009
Identités, catalogue, Septembre de la Photographie, Lyon, 2008
Le & Ly, HGB Leipzig & ENSBA Lyon, 2007
Teaching, jurys and conferencies :
Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design TALM, Painting teacher, Tours, FR, since 2016
BFA and 2nd Year Jury, HEAD, Genève, CH, 2018
Workshop, Ecole Supérieure d’Art Clermont-Métropole, Clermont-Ferrand, FR, 2017
BFA Jury, Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design de Reims, FR, 2015
Seminar and conference, Master 1 and 2, with Gyan Panchal, Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Médias, Caen, FR, 2013
Which Work, Round table, Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, Pontaul-Combault, FR, 2013
Artistes en Résidence, Conference, Ecole Supérieure d’Art Clermont-Métropole, FR, 2011
Education :
MFA, with honors, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, FR, 2007
BFA, Ecole Supérieure d’Arts de Rueil-Malmaison, FR, 2005
Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela, 2000
Art Center South Florida, Miami-Beach, USA, 1998