Benjamin Edwards (b. 1970) was born in Iowa City. He received his BA from the University of California in 1991 and his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. He has exhibited his work throughout the US and internationally at institutions such as MoMA PS1 in Queens, the Stedelijk Museum in Holland, the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, and the Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard in Paris. His work is also in numerous collections including the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Goldman Sachs Corporate Collection, the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Collection, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the New York Public Library, and The Progressive Corporation Collection.