Lynda Benglis (b. 1941, Lake Charles, LA) received her B.F.A. in 1964 from Newcomb College, the coordinate women’s college of Tulane University located in New Orleans. Her first one-person exhibition was at Paula Cooper Gallery in 1970 and was followed by twelve further one-person exhibitions at the gallery, and many group shows. A 1973 exhibition of Benglis’s video work at Paula Cooper Gallery traveled to Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York and in 1975 a retrospective of her video works was held at State University of New York College at Oneonta, and subsequently traveled to Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. In 1980 the University of South Florida and Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami organized Lynda Benglis 1968–1978. The first museum retrospective of Benglis’s work was Lynda Benglis: Dual Natures 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. 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. Other important one-person museum exhibitions include Lynda Benglis at Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2016), and Lynda Benglis: Water Sources at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY (2015). Benglis is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, among other commendations. Benglis resides in Santa Fe, and has residencies in Walla Walla, WA, Kastellorizo, Greece, and Ahmedabad, India.
