MEET KAI BENSON

Kai Benson is a Minneapolis-based artist and designer known for his analog collage work, composed on vintage construction paper using outmoded print media—record sleeves, old science books, and other ephemera. His work transforms these fragments into impossible images that echo the drifting flow of hypnagogia. Stripped of their original context, the materials reconfigure into standalone compositions—part dream, part architecture.

His creative path began in the punk and indie scenes of the 1990s, making Xerox flyers and piecing together layouts from whatever was on hand. Over the years, he’s moved through Minneapolis’s independent music scene as both a visual artist and musician—designing flyers, posters, and album covers while also performing, producing, and DJing. As the designer behind Doomtree’s visual identity and a collaborator with artists like Atmosphere, he’s contributed to the evolving visual language of the city’s music culture in quiet, lasting ways.

That raw, cut-and-paste sensibility remains at the core of his practice—but it’s evolved into something more deliberate and refined, carrying the immediacy of its origins into a quieter, more sophisticated form.

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