Her installations and creative works have been shown in numerous museums, sculpture parks and galleries throughout the USA including The Whitney Museum of Art at Champion, Wave Hill, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The American Craft Museum, The McNay Museum of Art’s Artist Looking at Art, Art Omi, Johns Hopkins University, the El Paso Museum of Art, The Islip Museum, The Abington Art Center, The Mitte Gallery, the Schuylkill Environmental Center, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Franklin Furnace NYC, The Beeville Museum and the Museo De Historia, Anthropologia y Arte, Puerto Rico.

Over the years, Benitez has taught at The Southwest School of Art, the Majestic Ranch Foundation, and the Escuela des Artes Plasticas. Her public artworks--over 60 collaborative public murals with children, have been funded, in part, by The National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Art Council, The Delaware State Art Council, Sites for Students, New York City Construction Authority, and Arts Pro Tem of New Hampshire.