Benjamin Anderson
Clearwater, Florida, United States
16 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Santa Barbara, California
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Works by BENJAMIN ANDERSON
Trained in Florence, Italy and the SF Academy of Art University (BFA), Benjamin's work was first presented in the De Young Museum of Fine Arts 'Emerging Artists Exhibition' of 2001. He has been creating monumental oil paintings since 2002 and has been recognized for his portraiture by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
He was selected by Converse for a national ad campaign as their All Star artist and his work was the subject of a presentation on London's Channel 4 TV. He has shown work in San Francisco, New York, Europe and multiple venues in California.
Education
1998-2002 B.F.A. Academy of Art University, San Francisco, Ca
1998 Alaska Indian Arts Center, Haines, Alaska
1997 Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci, Florence, Italy
Museum Shows & Exhibitions
2019 ‘The Imaginary’ Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, Ca
2011 ‘The Brothers Anderson’ Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, Ca
2011 ‘Splash’ Ventura County Museum of Art, Ventura, Ca
2005 ‘Portrait of an Artist’, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Solo Exhibitions
2019 ‘Summer Fix’ Person Ryan Gallery,? Summerland, Ca
2011 Anderson ART Collective, Portraits, Carpinteria, Ca
2010 ‘Just Add Water’ Blank Space Gallery, New York, NY
2010 ‘Just Add Water’ Anderson ART Collective, Carpinteria, Ca
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Simon Breitbard Fine Arts, San Francisco, Ca
2019 Ron Robinson, Portraits, Los Angeles, Ca
2018 Whistler Contemporary, Whistler, B.C.
2015 Sullivan Goss, ‘Figurations’ Santa Barbara, Ca
2015 Eisenhower Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, Ma
2015 Creutzberg | Van Dunn, Netherlands
2014 Rarity Gallery, Summer Salon Show, Mykonos, Greece
2014 Gallery Van Den Doel & Van Dunn, Netherlands
2014 Christopher Hill Gallery, Spring Exhibition, Healdsburg, Ca
2013 Rarity Gallery, Summer Salon Show, Mykonos, Greece
2013 Santa Barbara Arts Fund, ‘aqua’ , Santa Barbara, Ca
2013 Christopher Hill Gallery, Spring Exhibition, Healdsburg, Ca
2012 ‘100 Grand’, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, Ca
2012 ‘Benjamin Anderson and Daniel Mourning, New Works’
2012 Simon-Breitbard Fine Arts, Mill Valley, Ca
2012 WADE, Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, Ca
2011 ‘100’ Grand, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, Ca
2011 Sherman/McNulty Gallery, Los Angeles Ca
2010 ‘Rogue Wave II’ Anderson ART Collective, Carpinteria, Ca
2010 ‘Summer Exhibition’ Susan Street Gallery, Solana Beach, Ca
2009 Anderson ART Collective, ‘M-E-Y-K’ , Carpinteria, Ca
2009 Anderson ART Collective, ‘Rogue Wave’ Carpinteria, Ca
2009 Rumble Art Fair, Santa Barbara, Ca
2007 George Billis Gallery ‘I(Heart)Pop Realism’ Los Angeles, Ca
2007 IAM Gallery ‘Sensa Peso’ Venice, Italy
2007 CastelARTe 07, Abruzzo, Italy