Tori Benz is a visual artist based in Walyalup (Fremantle), Western Australia, on Whadjuk Noongar Country.

Her artistic practice is focused on notions around the fragility of the human experience through the lens of domestic relationships and motherhood. She is interested in the dualistic tension that arise from intricate structures of power and care. Her work highlights these concepts through the use of traditional drawing and painting media that is often weighted precariously on the picture surface to speak of shifting realities between various entities.

Working from a range of sources such as family photography, film stills and online imagery, the figure is utilised in a way that extends itself beyond the individual, allowing symbolism to tease out larger concepts extending to spaces of survival, guilt, adaptation, judgement and transformation. While the subjects of her portraits carry unique narratives, she renders them to convey universal ideas. A defiant glance, a tilted head, or the quiet grief of a tear-stained face transcends the individual; the figure becomes a vessel for our shared human experience.

Benz completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University of Technology in 2000, followed by Honours in 2002. Her work is held in private collections both nationally and internationally, and her illustrations have been featured in commercial branding and advertising campaigns. Benz has exhibited widely in group and award exhibitions across Australia.

In addition to her artistic practice, Benz serves as a Lecturer within the Painting and Drawing Discipline in the Department of Art, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University.