Nicole Beno is a visual artist and designer based in Kitchener-Waterloo on the traditional territories of the Haldimand Tract, land promised to the Six Nations. Her work investigates themes of excess, over-consumption, and desire. Layering photographs and scanned materials that are otherwise seen as everyday objects, or taken from old magazines, she manipulates them digitally through a process of remixing, cutting, distorting and merging. Her work is a reflection of the anxiety around consumption and is often overloaded with saturated colours and artificial hues, in contrast to natural textures and materials. Beno’s work is driven by her own personal contradictions around the pressure to produce, perform, and purchase. She has exhibited at the Capture Photography Festival in 2024, CAFKA Biennale in 2023, Design Toronto, 2021, along with numerous public art installations such as A Streetcar Named Toronto and WayHome Festival. She has done work for clients such as The Drake Hotel, TD Bank, and MASSIVART.