Ana Benaroya (b. 1986, New York, NY) lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. She completed her undergraduate studies at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008, and received her MFA from Yale University in 2019. Benaroya has been the subject of a two person exhibition at Postmasters Gallery, NY (2018) and more recently a solo exhibition at Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (2019). Her contemporary works were paired with historical works by Peter Saul in an exhibition at Ross + Kramer’s East Hampton location in 2019, and stood alone in her solo exhibition "The Softest Place on Earth" in New York City (2020). Benaroya has been awarded residencies at the Iceland Residency, Light Grey Art Lab (2015), the Newark Print Shop (2017), and Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy (2020).

“My inspiration for this imagery comes from feeling powerless and often intense, overwhelming anger at what I view to be atrocities committed against women every day – both large and small. I want to create a visual world where women fnd their power: mentally, physically, sexually. My work is motivated in large part to my own emotional experience. I believe in the subversive power of humor and how those who are disadvantaged can harness it to topple the powers that be. I take pleasure in making work that on first appearance might look funny and appealing to the eye – but upon closer examination reveals a darker more serious nature. My hope is for my work to be a reflection of the world around us: exaggerated, yet truthful in revealing the unsaid reality. "

— Ana Benaroya