Jason Benjamin
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| Jason Benjamin | |
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Field | Painting |
| Training | Pratt Institute |
| Awards | Packing Room Prize 2005 Staring down the past Mosman Art Prize 1993, 1994 and 1996 |
Jason Benjamin (born 1971 in Melbourne) is an Australian painter. Benjamin was born in Melbourne in 1971 and now lives and works in Sydney. He has been exhibiting since 1989 and won the 2005 Packing Room Prize at the Archibald Prize with a painting of actor Bill Hunter titled Staring down the past. He won the 1993, 1994 and 1996 Mosman Art Prizes in Sydney. In 1997 he was awarded the prestigious Kings School Art Prize for landscape painting. He was a finalist for the 2011 Archibald Prize.
After brief periods of study at The Stony Brook School on Long Island and the prestigious Pratt Institute in New York City, he returned to Australia in the early 1990s.
[edit] External links
- Jason Benjamin wins the packing room archibald
- Bill gets a kiss from the packing room
- Royalties for art's sake
- AGNSW Press Release
- The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2002
- Jason Benjamin at Greenhill Galleries
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