Sadie Benning

Sadie Benning’s early works were made in the privacy of their childhood bedroom, using scrawled and handwritten text from diary entries that reveal the longings and complexities of a developing identity. Benning’s work emerges from a place half-innocent and half-adult—with all the honesty, humor, and desperation of a personality just coming into self-awareness, trapped and uneasy. Their more recent work moves into animation, film and installation.

Films by Sadie Benning (Selection)
Flat Is Beautiful 1998 | The Judy Spots 1995 | It Wasn’t Love 1992 | Jollies 1990 | Me and Ruby Fruit 1990 | Living Inside 1989