Image Faculty Title Department Chair Chair of Media Arts Education MFA, University of Illinois BFA, University of Washington Email Address sbenine@mcad.edu Website shannonbenine.com Shannon Benine (she/they)MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago BFA/BA, University of Washington, SeattleShannon Benine is a North American artist, curator, and educator who joined the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in the fall of 2025 as Professor and Chair of Media Arts. Their practice interrogates the aesthetics and ethics of documentary techniques to investigate how mechanisms support marginalized communities against hegemonic systems of power. Informed by feminist art theory and their lived experience as a queer and gender-fluid artist, Benine integrates photography, video, and archival materials into multimedia installations that strengthen communal agency.Benine has spent over twenty years teaching within public and private institutions including UIC, SAIC, CCAD, and SSU. Prior to their move to Minneapolis, they served as a tenured Associate Professor and Chair of Photography at ULV. Their global practice includes a forthcoming exhibition at the Photo Vogue Festival 2026 in Milan, Italy. Benine’s work is held in numerous permanent collections, including the National Centre of Contemporary Art in Moscow, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and the Kalaupapa National Historic Museum in Hawai’i.