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. He is the winner of a Silver 2026 Graphis Poster Award.
Please reach out
@ benjamin.rdg@gmail.com or @benrossdavis
for any questions or feature work.
Recent Press/ External Links for Work
Press
2019-03 NY Art Beat
2019-02 Endosymbiosis at Leslie Lohmann Sculpture, Illustration, Photography, Performance
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. He is the winner of a Silver 2026 Graphis Poster Award.
Please reach out
@ benjamin.rdg@gmail.com or @benrossdavis
for any questions or feature work.
Recent Press/ External Links for Work
Press
2025-07 Graphis Poster Awards 2026 Silver Medal- Graphics, Illustration
2024-04 Empathy is a Dicey Practice, Geoffrey Mak by Liara Roux for Cultured Mag
2024-04 Moving as Thing at Wesleyan University
2024-04 From Christ to Key (and back again), Geoffrey Mak’s Mean Boys by Paul Johnathan for Plaster Magazine
2024-02 The Paris Review for Geoffrey Mak’s My Friend Ellis
2023-10 Electronic Groove on Massimiliano Pagliara Album Art
2023-10 New Yorker Magazine for Geoffrey Mak’s The UnHoly Son
2023-10 Massimiliano Pagliara Album Art for All The VCOS You Can Eat
2023-10 Bobby Anspach Memorial Performance
2023-10 NYQZF 2023
2022-10 Kaje World: Back To School Performances
2022-10 Miriam Gallery Chatroom with Precog Mag
2020-9 Community Bread: Visuals for CEM for Glits Inc.
2019-03 Bushwick Daily: Queer Bushwick Artist Exhibits at Leslie-Lohman Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art in SoHo by Savannah Camastro
2019-03 NY Art Beat
2019-03 Artforum
2019-02 Endosymbiosis at Leslie Lohmann Sculpture, Illustration, Photography, Performance
2018-11 Going Beyond at Kunstraum LLC Photography
2018-07 Alex Baczynski-Jenkins at Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw for Contemporary Cruising Photography
2018-06 Motherlode Audio/Photos for Luxury Escapism
2018-06 Printed Matter Nastic Movements Illustration
2018-05 Printed Matter Thr0mb0 Sculpture, Illustration, Photography, Performance, Writing
2017-10 Pratt News Augmented Reality
2017-10 Alt-Citizen
2017-11 Out Magazine Audio
2017-9 Eye Chart Book by William Germano
2017-7 HyperAllergic Performance Work
2017-7 The Clemente Digital Art/Print
2017-7 Hartbeats Audio Work
2016-4 I-D Vice Mx Artist Profile/Audio Work
2016-4 Alt-Citizen Audio Work
2015-10- Printed Matter Creeps Annual
2015-9
Posture Magazine Photography
2015-9 Huffington Post Photography
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