Statement Profile GlogauAIR Project CV Summary

Statement

My artistic practice is rooted in direct observation and immersion in places that often remain outside our everyday view. Through painting, I explore how people live, work, and shape their daily lives in places marked by inequality, but also by the richness of everyday life. Color and light are essential to my work: they allow me to transform lived experience into images that reveal the dignity and humanity present within these spaces. I paint to bring viewers closer to realities that often remain unseen, and to remind us that, even in the most difficult circumstances, it is possible to find light.

Profile

GlogauAIR Project

My project marks a return to La Cañada Real (Madrid), Europe’s largest informal settlement, a territory fundamental to my socially engaged practice. Having previously addressed the harsh realities of Sector 6—an area deeply affected by drug trafficking and institutional neglect—and created a mural in Sector 4, I am now focusing on community-based work with local mothers, children, and youth. Rather than imposing a predetermined outcome, this online residency supports my active field research. By strengthening community ties, the project prioritizes an ethical dialogue to define the final artistic intervention.

CV Summary

Education

● 2025–2026 — Master’s Degree in Art, Market and Entrepreneurship, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), PONS Business School, and Huntress of Art, Madrid (Spain).
● 2018–2022 — Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts and Design, Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid (Spain).

Selected Press
● https://www.eldebate.com/cultura/arte/20230820/rayo-esperanza-canada-real-arte-tambien-necesario_134667.html
● https://www.20minutos.es/mujer/mas-mujer/the-catholic-worker-mural-artista-belen-benavent-lleno-luz-para-dejar-lado-los-estigmas-que-recaen-sobre-canada-real-5175742/
● https://www.abc.es/espana/madrid/noche-infierno-artista-madrilena-retrata-cruda-realidad-20221210132337-nt.html
● https://www.elplural.com/sociedad/cultura/todos-dias-son-blancos-exposicion-colectiva-espacio-galeria-martin-vidales-en-madrid_301060102

Artist Residencies
(2025) Image and Word, Catena, Madrid (Spain)

Selected Group Exhibitions
(2026) Mirar lo otro: narrativas de la investigación, Fundación Pons, en colaboración con la Fundación Hermanos Álvarez Quirós, Madrid (Spain)
(2026) ¿Mi corazón se ha dormido?, Facultad de Teología San Isidoro de Sevilla, Sevilla (Spain)
(2025) Sobre el tráfico y lo cotidiano, Studio RGF, Madrid (Spain)
(2024) Mirar X y ver Y, Nébula, comisariada por Paula Cremades, Madrid (Spain)
(2024) Obertura Carabanchel, Galería Beatriz Pereira, comisariado por Daniel Silvo, Madrid (Spain)
(2024) Un lugar, Galería Beatriz Pereira, comisariado por Óscar Manrique, Madrid (Spain)
(2024) Mírame, Studio RGF, Madrid (Spain)
(2023) La relación entre el humano y la Tierra, Museo Leonora Carrington, Xilitla (México)
(2022) Todos los días son blancos, Galería Martín De Vidales, comisariada por Semíramis González, Madrid (Spain)
(2022) FIA, Feria de Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona (Spain)
(2022) Festiarte, Galería Agaphe, Marbella (Spain)
(2022) Mundoarti, Exposición Internacional del Museo Virtual, Madrid (Spain)
(2022) Emerge Bellas Artes, en JustMad Contemporary Art Fair, comisariada por Francisco Carpio, Madrid (Spain)
(2020) Postatlántico, en Galería 12:00, Bogotá (Colombia)
(2020) Postatlántico, en Galería Nueva, comisariada por Daniel Silvo, Madrid (Spain)
(2019) Asteria, en el Centro cultural Volturno, Madrid (Spain)

Awards & Recognitions
(2026) Premio de adquisición de obra, DoubleTree by Hilton Príncipe de Vergara, Madrid (Spain)
(2025) Finalista 28º Premio Nacional de Pintura Fundación Mainel, Valencia (Spain)
(2017) Disello, finalista del concurso de Correos, Madrid (Spain)
(2016) Con Euterpe, ganadora del concurso, Segovia (Spain)