Hidden Waters / Arid Land Springs at Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Exhibition 2021
Earth Now American Photographers and the Environment - book cover photograph Cedar Wash from Gridlines Click here to purchase: Earth Now, American Photographers and the Environment by Katherine Ware
Gridlines in the Overgrowth Exhibition at Decordova Museum of Art & Sculpture 2014
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Benedict’s projects center on the role that landscape plays in the human experience. Her focus is on unrecognized, under-valued yet important elements of the natural world. Her earlier projects, range from the role of landscape in creating memory - Distant Places; to electrical towers interruption of the American Western landscape - Gridlines; to a child’s imaginary play in natural history dioramas - Field Trip, Re-Imagining Eden; Benedict’s recent work - Hidden Waters combines art and science to envision the impacts of climate change and overuse on endangered arid-land springs in the American West.
Benedict’s images are at Fidelity Art Boston; Center for Photography, Tucson; Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; New Mexico Museum of Art; Decordova Museum of Art and Sculpture; Harvard's Fogg Museum; and George Eastman Museum. Solo exhibitions include Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; Griffin Museum of Photography at Stoneham; Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX; and Philadelphia Print Center. The Hidden Waters archive resides in the Museum of Art & Environment, Reno Nevada; Benedict is a member of Blue Earth Alliance.
Recent awards include Project Launch Award CENTER Santa Fe 2023; Juror’s Award, Karen Haas Juror, Conversations with the Land 2022 , Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2021; Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist 2021; Juror’s Honorable Mention, 2021, Art and Science 2, at A. Smith Gallery 2021; Critical Mass Top 200, 2019; the FENCE, New England, 2019; Legacy Award, Griffin Museum of Photography; two Puffin Foundation Grants; and three residencies one at the Museum of Northern Arizona 2011, and one at Joshua Tree Highlands Residency in 2022; and Shoshone Art Residency in 2023; Solo exhibitions at Texas Women’s University, and Philadelphia Print Center. Photographer Mark Klett chose Quitobaquito Springs for inclusion in his book - Wild Visions. Lucy Lippard included 2 photographs in her book: Undermining.
Recent exhibitions include: In 2023 - Ceding Ground with Simon Norfolk and Camille Seamman at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA; 2023 Women in Nature with Maya Goded and Alejandra Torres-Platt, at the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ, and Reshaping Earth: Energy and the Environment, Jamie Stillings, David Emiitt Adam and Bremner Benedict, Photoeye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
Two images from Hidden Waters are in the Autry Museum of the American West’s Out of Site exhibition and book by William Fox, art historian. In 2024 Bremner will have a solo exhibition of Hidden Waters at the Clark County Library in Las Vegas, NV