Nicolette Bénard is a Dutch sculptural artist whose work explores how identity is constructed, projected, and contained through cultural archetypes.
Trained as a goldsmith at the Vakschool Schoonhoven, she brings material precision and refinement into a conceptual sculptural practice. Her works balance clarity and psychological tension, combining figurative elements with object-based presentation.
In her ongoing series The Veiled Self, the human face the primary marker of individuality disappears. In its place emerge sculptural forms suspended within plexiglass. The body remains, yet the person dissolves. Transparency becomes both exposure and confinement; reflection becomes both self-perception and distortion.
Bénard’s earlier body of work, Project B, examined the Barbie doll as a global symbol of idealized femininity and constructed perfection. Detached from nostalgia, the figure becomes a cultural artifact reframed to question beauty standards and societal projection.
Her work has been presented internationally in galleries, art fairs, and museum contexts across Europe, Asia, and the United States.
She lives and works in The Netherlands.
