Aaron Lee Benson is a Professor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Ceramics at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. He works mainly in clay producing large-scale architectural forms as well as figurative, narrative monoliths. It is his intent to combine the figure with architecture and narrative.

His work is widely shown throughout the south and northeast, including The Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Duke University, The Gallery in New York, University of Arkansas, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has won several public works commissions including works for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, The State of Alabama and the city of Rome, GA.