BORN – Providence, RI, 1960

 

EDUCATION

1979-1982 – RISD, Painting

2004-2005 – RISD, BFA Painting

 

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

2001-2002 – Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Painting Fellowship

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 – Christopher Benson and Thayer Carter, The Fisher Press, Santa Fe, NM

2008 – The Printed Picture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2008 – West of the Hudson and North of Forty, Working Artist's Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2005 – RISD Senior Invitational Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI

2004 – Views from Big Spaces, Owings–Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2003 – Christopher Benson and John Beerman, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI

2003 – Annual Juried Members Show, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

1999 – Grand opening exhibition, Tercera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000 – Contemporary American Painting, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1999 – Christopher Benson and John McCormick, Tercera Gallery, Los Gatos, CA

1992 – 167th Annual Juried Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

1989 – Featured Artist, LewAllen-Butler Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003 – Tercera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000 – Tercera Gallery, San Francisco, CA,

1997 – Butters Gallery, Portland, OR

1997 – Between the Muse Gallery, Rockland, ME

1996 – Island Arts Gallery, Newport, RI

1992 – LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

PUBLICATIONS

2008 – The Printed Picture, by Richard Benson, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC

2007– Balancing the Tides, A Newport Journal of Art and Literature

2004 – Art New England, regional reviews