Lucky Benson is a filmmaker, performer, and creative strategist. They are currently a creative director at The Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, they were a visual editor and senior art director at The New York Times.

They believe that storytelling is powerful medicine and plan to develop new story structures and visual systems for the rest of eternity. Their creative work is wide-ranging: they curated the art on display at The New York Times headquarters, helmed a brand-collab department at Baggu, disseminated vital Covid-19 information to millions of people via @nytimes and directed a biopic feature on an overlooked Dada artist.

Their work has appeared in places like the CPH:DOX Documentary Film Festival, on the BBC, at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, in The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, on the screen at Anthology Film Archives, in The Brooklyn Museum, on the BBC, in The New York Times, and on the walls of Nicolai Wallner Gallery. They received a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from Lund University in Sweden and have taught classes at CUNY and Golden Dome.

Lucky lives between Los Angeles and New York City.