Steve DiBenedetto (b. 1958, Bronx, NY) earned his BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1980. He has received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Fellowship Award. DiBenedetto has taught at numerous institutions throughout the United States, including Rutgers University, Cooper Union, Columbia University, and The School of Visual Arts.

DiBenedetto’s work has been featured in numerous institutional exhibitions all over the world, including the University of SUNY, Albany, NY; Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY; University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; MassArt, Boston, MA; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany; University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland; FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lille, France; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, among others. His work is included in numerous museum collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and the Whitney Museum, New York, NY, as well as numerous private collections.