Trudy Benson (born 1985) is an American abstract painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

[5] Related painters include Hans Hoffman, Jonathan Lasker, Al Held, and Keltie Ferris.

Benson works within a deliciously caffeinated language of gestures and shapes-the smear, the dripping line, rainbows, grids, circles-to create compositions that pair smooth, glossy sections with paint applied so thickly it resembles Play-Doh.

"[3] In May 2013, New York Times Art Critic Karen Rosenberg wrote that Benson's canvases resemble the proportions of early mac computers, and "mimic the squiggly, uncontrollable lines and seemingly miraculous instant color-fills of 1980s graphics programs like MacPaint."

"[6] "Shapes of Things" at Lisa Cooley was described as a move "beyond the jokey use of tropes culled from computer-graphics programs" and a turn to drawing by Stephen Maine in the summer 2015 issue of ARTnews.