Born in 1978 in Pessac, Benoît Maire lives and works in Bordeaux. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I) before entering the Villa Arson in Nice in 2002. In 2005, he conducted a research residency at the Palais de Tokyo, where he exhibited in 2008. He was the laureate of the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize in 2010, as well as the CNAP, Image/Movement. In 2017, he received the SOLO Prize at Art Brussels. In 2017, he won the 1% artistic commission for MÉCA (Maison de l’économie créative et de la culture en Nouvelle-Aquitaine), creating Un détail, a monumental bronze half-head of Hermes, installed on the forecourt of the new building of Frac Aquitaine-MÉCA in Bordeaux. In 2018, CAPC in Bordeaux dedicated a significant retrospective exhibition to him, titled Thèbes, later presented at Skype Island in Bristol, UK. In 2021–2022, he was a resident at the Villa Médicis – Académie de France in Rome.

His multidisciplinary practice seeks to blur categories and boundaries. Benoît Maire is equally interested in painting, sculpture, installation, video, design, and architecture. He also creates exhibitions, publications, and performances. He regularly collaborates with other artists, as well as philosophers and musicians. Starting in 2012, Benoît Maire inaugurated his series Peintures de Nuages, giving a central place to his pictorial practice, which he considers as an ontological questioning. Since 2015, he has been associated with the architects' collective Ker-Xavier and creates limited-edition furniture, considering objects as sculptures with added constraints. For over ten years, his research has focused on the question of measurement, proposing an allegory of philosophy as a calculative relationship between humans and their environment.

His works have been exhibited in Rome, London, Berlin, San Francisco, and are present in the collections of numerous museums in France and internationally, including the Musée national d'Art moderne/Paris, the Centre Georges Pompidou/Paris, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Mudac in Lausanne.