About:
Ben Ross Davis is a multidisciplinary artist and educator exploring identity, embodiment, and the tension between digital and analog spaces through illustration, painting, print, performance, sculpture, sound, and book-making. Davis constructs immersive, multisensory work that challenges conventional binaries—between self and system, personal and political, ancient and futuristic. His practice merges personal history with collective mythologies, using humor, tenderness, and the uncanny to examine how bodies and identities transform under contemporary pressures. He is most recently the creator of Hexas, a graphic series following a young witch’s journey through liquid-based teleportation and political resistance in a richly textured grayscale world.
Based in Brooklyn, Davis has attended the University of Texas, NYU, Cooper Union, and holds an MFA from Pratt Institute. His work has been exhibited across the U.S. and internationally, including at David Zwirner, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, Kaje World, NARS Foundation, Miriam Gallery, The Center, Backhaus Projects, Kunstraum LLC, LES Gallery, and the Pratt Institute Library. He has done freelance installation, art direction, design, and illustration projects for clients including Domino Records, Columbia Records, Tate, the Apollo, FIFA, NBA, Bloomsbury Publishing, and many more. Davis has taught art and design courses to undergraduate students at Queens College and Baruch College in New York City for over five years. His teaching practice parallels his studio work, centering community, accessibility, and experimental pedagogy that encourages students to embrace risk and vulnerability in their creative processes.
His work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Hyperallergic, Artforum, i-D, Vice, and HuffPost. Through his practice, Davis invites audiences to pause, look closely, and reimagine the boundaries between the personal and the political, the body and the environment, and the physical and the digital.
Ben Ross Davis is a multidisciplinary artist and educator exploring identity, embodiment, and the tension between digital and analog spaces through illustration, painting, print, performance, sculpture, sound, and book-making. Davis constructs immersive, multisensory work that challenges conventional binaries—between self and system, personal and political, ancient and futuristic. His practice merges personal history with collective mythologies, using humor, tenderness, and the uncanny to examine how bodies and identities transform under contemporary pressures. He is most recently the creator of Hexas, a graphic series following a young witch’s journey through liquid-based teleportation and political resistance in a richly textured grayscale world.
Based in Brooklyn, Davis has attended the University of Texas, NYU, Cooper Union, and holds an MFA from Pratt Institute. His work has been exhibited across the U.S. and internationally, including at David Zwirner, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, Kaje World, NARS Foundation, Miriam Gallery, The Center, Backhaus Projects, Kunstraum LLC, LES Gallery, and the Pratt Institute Library. He has done freelance installation, art direction, design, and illustration projects for clients including Domino Records, Columbia Records, Tate, the Apollo, FIFA, NBA, Bloomsbury Publishing, and many more. Davis has taught art and design courses to undergraduate students at Queens College and Baruch College in New York City for over five years. His teaching practice parallels his studio work, centering community, accessibility, and experimental pedagogy that encourages students to embrace risk and vulnerability in their creative processes.
His work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Hyperallergic, Artforum, i-D, Vice, and HuffPost. Through his practice, Davis invites audiences to pause, look closely, and reimagine the boundaries between the personal and the political, the body and the environment, and the physical and the digital.