Marc Benja is an artist primarily working with paint and textiles/fiber. He is the owner/curator of Fluffy Crimes, a non-profit condo gallery in Chicago that features artists from around the world. He received his BA from Columbia College Chicago. His instructors, Louise LeBourgeois, Bob Thall and Ivan Brunetti, inspired him to make the leap into art full-time in 2019 after being immersed in “Corporate America” for 25 years. He has exhibited work at ArtSpace Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Oliva Gallery, ALMA Arts, MANA Contemporary, and is scheduled for a show at Epiphany Center for the Arts in 2022. He completed the Fellowship program at Spudnik Cooperative Press, the textile/fiber residency at Intersect Studio in Chicago, and will have completed a residency at Ox-Bow School of Art in 2022.

Find Benja’s work at www.marcbenja.com and on Instagram at @marc.benja, and follow Fluffy Crimes on Instagram at @fluffycrimes.