Studio Artist Program

Paul S. Benjamin received his BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught workshops at the Terra Foundation for American Art at DePaul University and the Romare Bearden Foundation through the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. Benjamin has had numerous solo/two-person exhibitions, including his most recent one at the Ferguson Gallery at Concordia University in Chicago, Antiques and Heirlooms. He was also featured in the 2009 MOCA GA group exhibition, Dissolving Stereotypes/Forging New Dialogues: An Exhibition Beyond Race, curated by Larry Walker. Among his awards to date are the Diasporal Rhythms Artist Recognition Award, a Hambidge Fellowship, and the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. The artist describes his work as being “primarily about rebirth and transformation. The materials used for my sculptures and installations are found and appropriated objects that have been deconstructed and reconstructed to create new form and purpose.”