Isaac Benigson is an artist, living and working in London.

“My artistic work is strongly rooted in my love of portraiture, and outsider art of the 20th Century. Artists like Lee Godie, who sold her work on the steps of the Chicago Art Museum and street photographer Vivian Maier. My work is inspired by a breadth of art history, from Caravaggio’s paintings to Cecil Beaton’s photographs. Living in London, I am constantly finding new inspiration for my painting, writing and filmmaking. My work is inspired by the people I see in the street, the films I watch and the books I read. My portraits are an ongoing series entitled: Calendar Girls” - Isaac Benigson

Isaac Benigson's artwork was first shown publicly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2019, with his portrait 'Mildred'. Mildred, an oil pastel portrait was created on the back of a cardboard pizza box. In January 2020 Benigson wrote: “Mildred, a fictional character who works on a city council, is an amalgamation of inspiration and references. She is an invention. A character, with a persona in her own right and since being exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition she has taken on a life of her own.”

In January 2020 Isaac had his debut solo exhibition at the Chandler House gallery in Cape Town. Of the exhibition, Christopher Peter, former curator of the Irma Stern Museum said:

“These “SITTERS” are quite oblivious of being captured by his eagle eye. They are quite innocent of being thus observed, and of course visual observation of a certain expressionistic kind is not at all kind, its purpose would be absurdly diluted by too much empathy and syrupy consolation. No, it’s a case of flourishing the brush as if it were a knife, its kinder to cut quickly! If a little too much brutality is afflicted , the case is put aside , for some reflection , overnight perhaps , then a bit of a dab here or there, a little softening by means of dragging and rubbing, together with an extra velvety application of something red. Some of these lipstick reds are rather like one imagines the very first reds formulated by Helena Rubinstein, not all mollified by the likes of Clinique, for instance. Of course, Clinique is perfectly lovely, but we are NOT doing kind and caring, not in this context, anyway.”

The exhibition was covered by the South African publication House and Leisure.

Isaac had his second solo show in London, at Shreeji News, a newsagent and tobacconist who work in collaboration with the online publication Airmail Weekly. The exhibition, The Ladies of Chiltern Street, opened to much awaited excitement at the acclaimed newsagent on Chiltern Street in Marylebone.