Erick Antonio Benitez

Baltimore, MD

About

Erick Antonio Benitez (b. Bronx, NY) is a Salvadorian-American multidisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, MD. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has exhibited work at Connor Smith Gallery (DC), The Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), Baltimore City Hall Gallery (MD), Real Milk Studios (GA), Gaddis Geeslin Gallery (TX), Strange Fire Collective (CO), Metafora Studio Arts (Barcelona, ES) and Simultan Festival (Timisoara, RO). His work has been reviewed by The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine, The American Scholar, What Weekly, and the BmoreArt Magazine. In 2018, Benitez received the MASB Travel Artist Award, the Janet and Walter Sondheim Award and participated in The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency.