PROFILE

Chris Bennett, known artistically as Edub, is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and writer based in the Florida Panhandle. He began making visual art in 2022, in his early thirties, and works across painting, mixed media, digital illustration, and poetry. Guided by intuition and lived experience, his practice explores duality, transformation, surrender, identity, freedom, nature, and the cycles that shape a human life. Birds, water, fire, roots, gardens, light, and the human figure recur as symbols of liberation, healing, interconnection, and becoming.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Sep 3, 2026 — Beyond Borders / Beyond the Veil, Canal Street Show, New York, NY. Forthcoming. "One Under the Sun"

Jun 25-26, 2025 — NFT.NYC 2025 Community Artist Showcase, Times Square, New York, NY. "Seeds of Reflection"; digital billboard presentation

Jun 23, 2025 — One Love Billboard Showcase Summer 2025, W 52nd Street and Broadway, New York, NY. "World Peace"; digital billboard presentation during NFT.NYC week

Dec 5-8, 2024 — One Love Digital Art Exhibition, Gates Hotel South Beach, Miami Beach, FL. "Day Tripping" and "Butter Lamp"; group digital exhibition curated by Jenifer Pepen Aquino / One Love Art DAO

Dec 5, 2024 — Casa Nube / OSO Activation, OSO Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, FL. Physical installation artist; One Love Art DAO

Jul 30, 2024 — TSX One Love "In Control" Exhibition Showcase, TSX Billboard, 1568 Broadway, Times Square, New York, NY. Group digital billboard exhibition; One Love Art DAO

Apr 3-5, 2024 — NFT.NYC 2024 Community Artist Showcase, Rooftop Artists Village, North Javits Center, Hudson Yards, New York, NY. "Blackbird's Flight"; selected group digital presentation

Apr 1, 2024 — One Love NYC Art Activation / The Canvas 3.0 Community Event, Oculus, World Trade Center, New York, NY. "Falling For Myself...Finally"; digital group exhibition

ARTIST RESIDENCY

Dec 2024 — One Love Miami Residency, One Love Art DAO, Miami / Miami Beach, FL. One-week participating artist residency during Miami Art Week; works from the residency were presented at Gates Hotel South Beach

SELECTED RECOGNITION

2026 — Beyond Borders / Beyond the Veil Artist Selection, Canal Street Show, New York, NY. "One Under the Sun" selected for exhibition

PUBLICATION

2026 — Cycles Speak: Fire Beneath the Waves, Chaos Farms Press, Graceville, FL. First-edition poetry collection written and illustrated by Chris Bennett / Edub

2025 — Cycles Speak. Thirty-five-work digital series comprising 26 original glyphs, eight word works, and one culminating totem; launched September 9, 2025

2023-2024 — Art & Coffee Season 2, CoinCoffee. One of five featured artists; original artwork appeared on limited-edition "Special Blend by Edub" packaging with a redeemable NFT

SELECTED WORKS

One Under the Sun; Seeds of Reflection; World Peace; Day Tripping; Butter Lamp; Blackbird's Flight; Falling For Myself...Finally; The Weight of Being; Balancing the Light Within; World View; Unbound Reflections; Voices Uncaged; Reincarnated; Lucid DreamZ

COMMUNITY & PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT

2026 — iPad & Apple Pencil Artist Grant. Founder and organizer; third artist grant awarded to Adul, Indonesia

2024-present — Artist Member, One Love Art DAO. Participant in exhibitions, public presentations, and residency programming

EDUCATION & PRACTICE

2022-present — Independent Studio Practice, Florida Panhandle. Self-taught across painting, mixed media, digital art, illustration, and poetry

PRACTICE FOCUS

Media. Painting, mixed media, digital painting, illustration, poetry, and visual storytelling

Recurring concerns. Duality, transformation, surrender, identity, freedom, nature, interconnectedness, light and darkness, and the cycles of human experience

PROFILE

Chris Bennett, known artistically as Edub, is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and writer based in the Florida Panhandle. Since beginning his practice in 2022, he has worked across painting, mixed media, digital illustration, and poetry to explore transformation, identity, freedom, nature, interconnectedness, and the cycles of human experience.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

2026 — Beyond Borders / Beyond the Veil, Canal Street Show, NYC. Forthcoming; "One Under the Sun"

2025 — NFT.NYC Community Artist Showcase, Times Square, NYC. "Seeds of Reflection"

2025 — One Love Billboard Showcase, Times Square, NYC. "World Peace"; digital billboard presentation

2024 — One Love Digital Art Exhibition, Gates Hotel South Beach, Miami Beach. "Day Tripping" and "Butter Lamp"

2024 — Casa Nube / OSO Activation, OSO Gallery, Wynwood, Miami. Physical installation artist

2024 — TSX One Love "In Control", TSX Billboard, Times Square, NYC. Group digital billboard exhibition

2024 — NFT.NYC Community Artist Showcase, North Javits Center, Hudson Yards, NYC. "Blackbird's Flight"

2024 — One Love NYC Art Activation / The Canvas 3.0, Oculus, World Trade Center, NYC. "Falling For Myself...Finally"

RESIDENCY

2024 — One Love Miami Residency, One Love Art DAO, Miami / Miami Beach. One-week participating artist residency during Miami Art Week

PUBLICATION & COLLABORATION

2026 — Cycles Speak: Fire Beneath the Waves, Chaos Farms Press. Poetry collection written and illustrated by Edub

2023-2024 — Art & Coffee Season 2, CoinCoffee. Featured artist for limited-edition "Special Blend by Edub" packaging and redeemable NFT

PRACTICE

2022-present — Independent, self-directed studio practice, Florida Panhandle. Painting, mixed media, digital illustration, and poetry