Benji Boyadgian is a painter and multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in Jerusalem. Trained as an architect at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette (ENSAPLV), his education focused on urban sociology in post-conflict areas. His visual practice explores memory, perception, architecture, landscape and the environment.
Benji’s work has been featured in international group exhibitions such as Uncommon Ground at Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães in Portugal (2024); Little Did They Know at EVA International in Limerick, Ireland (2021); For the Phoenix to Find Its Form in Us at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin (2021); the Yerevan Biennial (Digital Exhibition, 2020); and Guests: Artists and Craftspeople at Istanbul Modern (2020).
His work has also appeared at CrossSections_Notes at Exhibition Laboratory, University of the Arts Helsinki (2019); CrossSections_Perspectives at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm (2019); Phantom Limb at Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai (2019); Shared Sacred Sites at DEPO in Istanbul (2019); Intimate Terrains at the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit (2019); Climbing Through the Tide at B7L9 in Tunis (2019); and Jerusalem Show IX: Actual and Possible at Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem (2018).