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Biography

Lynda Benglis (b. 1941, Lake Charles, LA) first exhibited with Paula Cooper Gallery in 1969, Important one-person exhibitions include Lynda Benglis: Dual Natures, Retrospective at High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (1991) which traveled to Contemporary Art Center and New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, and San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Lynda Benglis at Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2016), and Lynda Benglis: Water Sources at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY (2015). In 2010 Benglis was the subject of an international retrospective, which traveled to The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Le Consortium, Dijon; New Museum, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Benglis is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, among other commendations. Benglis resides in New York, Santa Fe, Walla Walla, WA, Kastellorizo, Greece, and Ahmedabad, India.