14 Facts About Sadie Benning

Sadie T Benning was born on April 11,1973 and is an American artist, who has worked primarily in video, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and sound.

Sadie Benning was a co-founder and a former member of the American electronic rock band Le Tigre, from 1998 until 2001.

Sadie Benning was born April 11,1973, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sadie Benning left high school at age 16 due to homophobia.

Sadie Benning began creating visual works at age 15, they started filming with the "toy" video camera they received as a Christmas gift from their father, the experimental filmmaker James Sadie Benning.

Sadie Benning used a Fisher-Price PXL-2000 camera, known as PixelVision, which created pixelated black and white video on standard audio cassette tapes.

Sadie Benning's work has been included in the Whitney Biennial on four occasions, and they were the youngest artist included in the well-known and controversial 1993 Whitney Biennial.

Sadie Benning uses pop culture, such as music, television or newspapers, to amplify their message while simultaneously parodying the same pop culture.

The use of a variety of media in their work gives insight to the viewer on how Sadie Benning has been mostly interacting with the world.

In works such as If Every Girl Had a Diary, Sadie Benning uses the limitations of the PixelVision to get extreme closeups of their own face, eyes, fingers, and other extremities so that the focus is on sections of their face as they narrate their life and thoughts.

Sadie Benning entered Bard College in 2013 and graduated two years later with a MFA degree, where they now work as faculty.

Sadie Benning left the band in 2001 and JD Samson joined Le Tigre after Sadie Benning's departure.

In 1991, the first article about Sadie Benning's work, written by Ellen Spiro, appeared in the national gay magazine The Advocate.

Sadie Benning has received grants and fellowships from Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation grant, Andrea Frank Foundation, and National Endowment of the Arts.