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Sadie Benning | |
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![]() Benning in 2011 | |
Background information | |
Born | Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. | April 11, 1973
Occupation(s) | video maker, artist, musician, professor |
Sadie T. Benning (born April 11, 1973) is an American artist, who has worked primarily in video, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and sound.[1] Benning creates experimental films and explores a variety of themes including surveillance, gender, ambiguity, transgression, play, intimacy, and identity. They became a known artist as a teenager, with their short films made with a PixelVision camera that have been described as "video diaries".
Benning was a co-founder and a former member of the American electronic rock band Le Tigre, from 1998 until 2001.