Studio view in Paris, 2026 @Photo Credit: Honi Ryan
Peihang Benoît
Peihang Benoit’s practice is rooted in painting as a sustained, physical way of thinking. In the studio, she works through duration, repetition, and trust in process, allowing images to emerge gradually. Shaped by a life lived across places and by the demands of care during a period of wider instability, her approach reflects a mature confidence in painting as a medium that can absorb experience, hold complexity, and remain open without losing coherence. Across her work, painting functions as a site of concentration and presence, where form is shaped through attentiveness, patience, and an ongoing negotiation between control and vulnerability.
Born in Taipei in 1984, Benoit has lived in Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. These experiences have shaped her sensitivity to living between places, to shifting scales of belonging, and to the fluidity of time. Working primarily in painting, she has recently expanded her practice into ceramics, using painted stone-like forms to extend gesture, surface, and color beyond the canvas and into space. This attentiveness to movement and in-betweenness also informs her role as a co-founder of oneATELIER a Paris-based non-profit supporting international women artists, where shared experience, critical exchange, and mutual support mirror the values that ground her studio practice.
Benoit holds a BA and MFA in Fine Art from National Taiwan Normal University and an MA from Chelsea College of Arts, London. She has received awards including the ChiMei Award, Chu Teh-Chun Award, and was a finalist of Hopper Prize (US) and Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize (UK). Her work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries such as Saatchi Gallery, Sundaram Tagore Gallery; Macau Art Museum, Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts, Chiayi Museum, and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, with solo exhibitions at espace temps (Paris), Aki Gallery (Taipei ), Yiri Arts, and TKG+Projects (Taïwan), with works in the permanent collection of Chimei Museum and Dib Bangkok Museum.
She currently lives and works in Paris
Contact: peihang1@gmail.com