Selected Text
FEATURES AND REVIEWS
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, The Same Dead Thing Alive, by Marie Heilich, 2026
Contemporary Art Daily, RTRU* *Raudive Technocultural Research Unit at Kaje, Brooklyn, 2026
Contemporary Art Daily, Scott Benzel at Phase Gallery Los Angeles, 2025
Contemporary Art Writing Daily, Scott Benzel at Phase Gallery Los Angeles, 2025
Contemporary Art Library, Scott Benzel Norman Klein: Parallel Worlds, 2024
Timeshare Los Angeles/Special Effects, Rare Earth Exhibition Booklet, 2024
Frieze, Scott Benzel Gambles with the Avant Garde by Jan Tumlir, 2020
Brooklyn Rail, Scott Benzel: Mindless Pleasures, by Yxta Maya Murray, 2020
Contemporary Art Daily, Scott Benzel at Bel Ami, 2020
Contemporary Art Writing Daily, Scott Benzel at Bel Ami, 2020
Contemporary Art Library, Bel Ami, Portable Documents Formatted for Home Use, 2020
Galerie, The Culture of Cults #followme, Desert Center Los Angeles, by Colleen Curry 2018
Frieze, Good and Bad Times in L.A., a Year of protest and performance in Los Angeles by Hedi El Kholti, 2018
The Wire, Kenyatta AC Hinkle and Scott Benzel, J. Paul Getty Museum 2017
Artforum, Cosmic Thing Knowledges at Mt. Wilson Observatory by Travis Diehl 2017
C Magazine, Sylvia by Sabrina Tarasoff 2016
Modern Painters, Sonic Highways by Michael Slenske 2015
East of Borneo, On a Dark Desert Highway by Steffie Nelson 2015
W magazine, Scott Benzel at Various Small Fires Preview 2014
The Globe and Mail, Kathryn Andrews and Scott Benzel at Nuit Blanche Toronto 2014
LA Weekly, And Yes, I Even Remember You at Aran Cravey 2014
Hyperallergic, And Yes, I Even Remember You at Aran Cravey 2014
Los Angeles Times, And Yes, I Even Remember You at Aran Cravey 2014
Modern Painters, Scott Benzel at Maccarone Review 2014
Art Observed, Scott Benzel at Maccarone Review 2014
Art in America, Scott Benzel at Maccarone Review 2014
Flash Art, Scott Benzel at Maccarone Review 2014
Modern Painters, Scott Benzel at Maccarone Review 2014
Art in America, Scott Benzel at Maccarone Preview 2014
Artforum, Made in L.A. Review by Michael Ned Holte 2012
Artforum, Best of 2011 by Michael Ned Holte 2011
Artforum, Scott Benzel at Human Resources by Catherine Taft 2o11
ArtReview, Scott Benzel at Human Resources by Andrew Berardini 2011
Endless Bummer, Blum & Poe, Contemporary Art Library, 2010
Artforum Best of 2009, Music, ‘Blak Bloc’, by Stephen Prina
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INTERVIEWS
X-TRA, Culture is War, Scott Benzel by Keith J. Varadi, 2020
Octopusnotes, Interview by Naoki Sutter-Shudo 2015
Tulip Hysteria Coordinating 3.0 syllabus and readings, 2026
Sucksess 3, Scott Benzel, Preteen Gnosis, ed., tr. K. Desbois, 2025
Vestigia, The Horse Dublin, exhibition text, 2023
Scott Benzel, Mindless Pleasures, monograph, ed. Hailey Loman, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 2021
Hoard Inaugural, exhibition text, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 2019
On Hexentexte, essay, by Tupac Cruz, 2019
Notes on V.I.T.R.I.O.L. exhibition text, LACE, Los Angeles, 2018
Notes on ‘Geological/Genealogical Studies, Great Salt Lake‘ , exhibition text, Home Bodies, Away Teams, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, 2018
Sonatine Bureaucratique, essay, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 2015
Scott Benzel, Part-Objects, monograph, eds. Catherine Taft, Eric Kim, 2014
The Hammer Museum, Made in L.A. 2012, catalog essay by Kurt Mueller 2o12
CAM St. Louis Front Room Projects, exhibition text by Laura Fried 2o11
Bard CCS, Ivory Neige, L’origine du Monde, Magic Eraser, exhibition text by Theresa Choi 2o12