Livia Corona Benjamin

CANCELED | Livia Corona Benjamin (b. 1975) is a photographer and video artist. Born in Mexico, Corona Benjamin currently lives and works in New York City, Ensenada, and Mexico City. She is known for her architectural photography, which “depicts the social performance of architecture” and “explore[s] the relationship between local residents and the buildings they construct, inhabit, and use, highlighting narratives that have been repressed or marginalized.” Corona Benjamin’s work has been shown in exhibitions at Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and many others. She is a 2009 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for her project Two Million Homes for Mexico (Dos Millones de Casas para México). She is currently working on a book of this project, which will be her third monograph.