Benjamin Higbee is a working professional artist from Salt Lake City, Utah. He studied Fine art, specifically painting and drawing at the University of Utah and graduated in 1996. His artwork is defined as Bas Relief Mixed Media Sculpture on Panel, based on organic patterns created by diffusion, erosion, deposition, focusing on form created by wave flows through various materials, as well as emergent phenomena of hive-mind organisms (i.e. colonies of coral). Nature is the primary source of his inspiration.

He has worked as a 2D/3D Graphic artist in the computer game industry, as a Decorative Painter, partnering and operating Tessa Lindsey Custom Finishes out of Salt Lake City and as a technical custom finish painter for Evergreene Painting Studios of New York City. His project work includes the historical restoration of the Utah State Capital building and participated in decorative wall treatments and hand painted designs in then Governor John Huntsman's office and throughout the building. He also conceived and operated his own copies, graphics and shipping ( a service bureau) business for seven years in Salt Lake City.

Benjamin is establishing a non-profit organization - collectivworks.org / collectivworks.com as the umbrella for an ambitious international non-profit dedicated to building site-appropriate local-materials-only, alternative low-cost eco-housing and permaculture development in developing countries worldwide (including the USA). As a services organization, he intends to develop it as the outreach extension of his commercial entrepreneurial ventures.

His work as an artist has led him to study alternative architecture and architectural settings around the world and inspired him to travel to England, France and Italy, Southeast Asia, and Central America.

As an Artist in Residence at the Choza, Benjamin is researching the viability of transition to Costa Rica for art production. He is looking to develop local, natural materials acquired from trees and plants as substitutes for industrially manufactured products he uses in his art making process. Being at the Choza del Mundo project is enabling him to find resources, make connections and experience the culture, to determine whether his life's work can be engaged fluidly in the tropical setting generally and Central America specifically.