Born in 1980, Benjamin Duke is an American artist from Louisville. After studying art, literature and philosophy at the University of Utah, he graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Arts. He has been teaching painting and drawing at the Michigan State University since 2006. Duke's painting's are an explosion, like a riot which don't restrict itself to the borders of the canvas. His work has been presented in several personal exhibitions on a national and international level, like Gallery Victor Armendariz in Chicago. Benjamin Duke was also chosen for international residencies in Bamboo Curtain Studios and Kuandu Museum of Fine Art; a catalog which presented his works from 2001 until 2010 published in 2010.

Regarding his work, Benjamin Duke states: In my paintings I ask myself “Is this the way the world is?’ I reshape and retool my painting experience to answer that question. But while the question begins with the world, it ends with the work itself: “Is this the way the world is in this work?”
The search is for the world in painting and painting in the world (painting worlds/ paintings world). Am I in the world or is the world in me? I allude to my life, to writers works, to imagery and it is my hope that this record of allusion conjures and creates the same. I am referring to text, theory, idea but I am also finding myself already there, looking out to see in.