Frank Benson (b. 1976, Norfolk, VA) is a contemporary artist based in New York, working in sculpture and photography. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 1998, and his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2003.
Benson's three-dimensional and photographic works reflect a sustained fascination with arrested movement and the use of digital tools in the creation of sculpture. Working consistently at the forefront of digital media technologies, he employs advanced software to translate photographs of human figures into meticulously crafted 3D models, which serve as the basis for hyperreal, minutely finished sculptures — most notably in his celebrated Human Statue series, begun in 2005.
In 2019, Benson's work was the subject of a survey exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo. His work has been included in major group exhibitions including S-Curve (FLAG Art Foundation, New York, 2026); Post Human (Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, 2024–25); Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (The Met Breuer, New York, 2018); Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2018); 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience (New Museum, New York); and The Human Factor (Hayward Gallery, London, 2014), among others.
His work is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Speed Art Museum, Louisville; the Rubell Museum, Miami and Washington, D.C.; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo.