12 Step
2011

5 page series

Parasites
2009-2010

17 page series

Hypochondria
2006-2008

15 page series

Microbes
2005

18 page series

Consternation
2004

8 page series

Asylum
2002 - 2003

12 page series

Biography

Jason Merrill Benedict was born in 1977 in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

He studied studio art and art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and La Universidad Complutenese de Madrid.

Jason lived in Spain for many years as an active professional artist; has exhibited around the United States and Europe in alternative projects, commercial galleries, and museums; with several artworks having been acquired for private collections.

In 2006 he moved to Berlin, Germany where he now lives and works as an artist and organizer for a variety of exhibitions and art related events. He co-founded and is the art director of the WerkStadt Kulturverein Berlin e.V., a non-profit collective. In 2010 he completed a degree at the UdK (Universität der Künste Berlin) in curatorial practice and often works to make exhibitions happen in the major museums that dot the urban landscape of the new artistic capital of Europe.