Benson Selzer was born on June 4, 1921 in Brooklyn, New York. He received his education at the University of California at Los Angeles, the State University of New York at Purchase, and the San Miguel del Alande in Mexico.

From 1981 to 1997 he has had exhibitions at the Tabar Gallery, the Blue Hill Cultural Center, the James Cox Gallery, the National Sculpture Society, all of which are located in New York, as well as at the Foundry Trade Show in Loveland, Colorado. In 1982, Benson Selzer created a public art installation for the M.I.T. Conference Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1996, he also created a public art installation for Salisbury University. Collections of his work are held by Baer Marks and Upham, Peat Marwick, Tallix Foundry, and Anthony Quinn, all of which are located in New York.