about
Installation at the Portland Museum of Art, 2018. Photo by Brianna Soukup
Stephen Benenson
Education
MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2014
BA: Art, Anthropology, Wheaton College, MA, 2002
Post-Bac Certificate: 2-D Art, SACI Florence, Italy, 2004
Junior Year Study: Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2000
Exhibitions
“Summer Brew,” Field Projects. Online exhibition, June 2024.
“Stephen Benenson,” Fahrenheit Gallery. Madrid, Spain, 2022 (scheduled).
“FAIR (Online art fair initiative by NADA),” Disturb the Neighbors. New York, NY, May 2020.
“MECA Faculty Triennial,” Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. Portland, ME, January 2020.
“Hi Friends,” Disturb The Neighbors. New York, NY, March 2019.
“2018 Biennial,” Portland Museum of Art. Portland, ME, January 2018.
“Broken Register,” Able Baker Contemporary. Portland, ME, September 2016.
“Stephen Benenson,” Durden and Ray. Los Angeles, CA, April 2016.
“New Works by Elizabeth Gilfilen, Jeremy Chandler, and Stephen Benenson,” Fred GiampietroGallery. New Haven, CT, December 2014.
“Point of Departure,” 1708 Gallery. Richmond, VA, August 2014.
“Condensed Matter, MFA Thesis Exhibition,” Green Hall Gallery, Yale. New Haven, CT, February 2014.
“Stephen Benenson: Prints, Paintings and Drawings,” The Study, Yale. New Haven, CT, January 2014.
“For Ed: Splendor in the Grass with Olympic Lad & Lass,” Green Hall Gallery, Yale. New Haven, CT, April 2013.
“Stephen Benenson,” Whitney Art Works. Portland, ME, September 2008.
“Painting’s Edge,” Riverside Museum of Art. Riverside, CA, July 2007.
Selected Awards, Press, & Residencies
Eli Harwood Schless Award for Excellence in Painting, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2014.
“Old and new meet at Portland Museum of Art Biennial,” art review by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe. April 19, 2018.
Included in “1000 Living Painters.”
Residency: Painting, ‘Painting’s Edge,’ Idyllwild, CA, 2007
Member of SPACE Studios & Pickwick Independent Press, 2005-present
Invited to present a Thesis in Anthropology, titled From Confusion to Influence: Towards an Anthropology of Art with a Capital A. Wheaton College, Norton, MA, 2002.
Related Work Experience
Adjunct Professor of Art at Maine College of Art. Portland, ME, 2017–present.
Co-founder of Able Baker Contemporary. Portland, ME, 2016–present.
Teacher’s Assistant for Robert Reed. Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2014.
Artistic Director of One Longfellow Square. Portland, ME, 2006-2010.
