Nathan Bennett received a BFA in sculpture and painting from Miami University and a MFA in sculpture from Cornell University. He is a recipient of a CCA Individual Artist Grant, Summer Scholars Fellowship and a National Woodcarvers Association Scholarship. He was recently awarded a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Workspace Residency. He had also been the recipient of a DAAD Fellowship to research and produce art in Berlin. He has been widely exhibited in numerous exhibitions such as The Bronx Museum, Momenta Art and PS122 gallery in New York, Dayton Art Institute in Ohio, Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania, Illinois Central College, Earlville Opera House in New York, Lincoln Center in Colorado, Howard County Arts Council in Maryland and Chadron State College in Nebraska. Mr. Bennett lives and works in New York City.

The core concern of my artistic practice is to question, and to carefully draw connections between the object of my research and its ideology, history and mysticism. Through my pictorial and physical constructions I reveal new possibilities for dialogue while either displacing or denuding the original intention of the form. Joseph Kosuth's term, "anthropologized art," provided the bases from which I’ve built upon. Through these connections between Art and anthropology my work questions the intentions of object or pictorial and its connection to culturally relevant issue such as expiation, longing or identity. Through appropriation of objects and imagery I capsulate the form’s cultural and ideological significance but through this transformation the uncanniness evokes a level of distrust which develops into a deeper investigation.

Materiality, design and craft are always considered for their implication into the conceptual understanding of the work. I like being deliberate and meticulous while clashing it against my chosen processes and materiality.