Emilie Benes is a graduate of Wellesley College Faculty of Fine Arts in Massachusetts. She had her first solo exhibition in 1981 in Washington D.C. Most of her sculptures are wooden; she works with axe, saw and other heavy tools. Her monumental work from 1993 titled “Lintel” was sculpted in cherry wood and then cast in bronze; it is now in the collection of Grounds for Sculpture, a 35-acre sculpture park at the museum in New Jersey. In the 1990s she was an active member of an international art group working at the Museum of Artists in Łódź. She created and displayed her works within the art action “Construction in Process”. In 2003 she took part in the biennial in Florence, and in 2005 in the International Sculpture Biennial in Vancouver.