Benjamin Verdicchio

About Benjamin Verdicchio

Benjamin Verdicchio is a sculptor and interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores how material, landscape, and living systems take form through relationship rather than imposition. Working across the full range of wood — found, salvaged, reclaimed, and milled — he investigates the hidden structures embedded within: growth rings, grain, knots, the morphological memory of felled trees. Through processes of slow, rule-based revelation and dialogue with material, his work asks what becomes visible when imposition gives way to listening.

His practice extends beyond the studio into reciprocal structures, grafting experiments, site-responsive interventions, foraging, and land-based inquiry — each exploring how form emerges through interdependence rather than singular authorship. A lifelong engagement with rhythm, movement, and improvisation carries through into performance and sound, where the body becomes another instrument for responding to environment.

Verdicchio holds a studio-based MA in Art and Ecology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from OCAD University, where he also studied Environmental Design. His earlier BA in Geography: Human Environment from Concordia University informs an ongoing attention to how human and natural systems shape each other. He has exhibited in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy, and has participated in projects with CIRCA London, The Alternative Art School, and The Journal of Art and Ecology.