Benjamin Lord
Benjamin Lord is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. His work explores the poetics of the mediated subject, with a particular regard for the relationship between photography and fiction. Spanning the techniques of printmaking, sculpture, drawing, the artist’s book, and the occasional performance, his work often presents situations in which old and new worldviews intertwine or collide, with resonant, comic, or tragic results.
Lord began as a painter, studying at the University of Chicago with Vera Klement. He began making large photographic prints after college, in the early days of ubiquitous digital image editing. He received his MFA at UCLA, where he worked with Charles Ray, Paul McCarthy, Chris Burden, James Welling, and Catherine Opie. He has since exhibited his work internationally. His work is in major American public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Los Angeles County Museum.
Lord began as a painter, studying at the University of Chicago with Vera Klement. He began making large photographic prints after college, in the early days of ubiquitous digital image editing. He received his MFA at UCLA, where he worked with Charles Ray, Paul McCarthy, Chris Burden, James Welling, and Catherine Opie. He has since exhibited his work internationally. His work is in major American public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Los Angeles County Museum.
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