Bennie Flores Ansell is a Houston based artist, born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the U.S.. She is an Art Professor at Houston Community College. Her degrees include an M.F.A. from the University of Houston, and a B.A. from the University of South Florida. She also was an American Photography Institute Fellow at New York University.

Through the use of discarded analogue photographic artifacts, Flores Ansell creates installations and unique objects that deal with representation, race, and the migration of people.  These discarded objects are a metaphor for those who have been discarded and left behind by the Western Canon of Art. In 1935,when film transition from black and white to color, the chemicals necessary to bring out darker skin tones  were omitted, giving film an inherent racial bias toward white as an “ideal” skin tone, The now discarded analogue film represents those who were denied visibility   By her removal of these film sprockets from their accompanying images, they take on an importance all their own, free from the substantive elements that once made them discriminatory.

Flores Ansell’s work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally including a group show at The International Center for Photography, NYC; Seattle Art Museu;  The San Diego Museum of Art as part of the Only Skin Deep Exhibition curated by Coco Fusco;  the Festival De La Luz in Argentina, in a site-specific installation at the Daegu Photography Biennale in South Korea in in two group shows at Patricia Conde Galeria in Mexico City.