PAMELA BENHAM  Artist / Painter
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    • Pamela Benham: Music of the Hues by Shana Nys Dambrot
    • Art About Musical Pulse and Impulse by Josef Woodard
    • Expressive Forces in Flight by Josef Woodard
    • Painting Into and Out of the Vortex by Josef Woodard
    • Paintings/Pamela Benham, CASA Magazine
    • Peripheral Visions Exhibit, Santa Barbara News-Press by Josef Woodard
    • COLOR X 6 Exhibition, Santa Barbara News-Press by Josef Woodard
    • SB Studio Artists' Open Studios, LA WEEKLY
    • SB Sculptors' Guild / Abstract Art Collective Exhibition, CASA Magazine
    • Where Art and More Meet, SB News-Press by Joseph Woodard
    • SB Studio Artist 14th Annual Tour, SB Independent by Arianna Irwin
    • Expressive Abstractions, Seaside Gallery, San Luis Obisbo New Times by Jessica Pe
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Selected Individual Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Education
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NYC 
Art Students’ League, New York City and Woodstock, NY

Awards & Fellowships
Gottlieb Foundation Grant, Emergency Assistance, New York City, NY
Studio Space Grant, New York Public Library, New York City, NY
ARTISTS SPACE Individual Grant, New York City, NY
Full Tuitional Grant for Cooper Union, New York City, NY
Reginald Marsh Merit Scholarship for Art Students’ League, New York City, NY
Ford Foundation Scholarship for Art Students’ League, New York City, NY

Artist-In-Residence Grants and Artist Colony Fellowships
AIR at Pecos Benedictine Monastery, Pecos, NM
AIR at Mount Calvary Monastery, Santa Barbara, CA
The Mary Anderson Art Center, Mount St. Francis, New Albany, IN
AIR at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Parson’s AIR Program at Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
AIR at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

Museum Exhibitions

Focus on the Past, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts​
Music as Muse, 
Bristol Art Museum @ the Rogers Free Library​, Bristol, Rhode Island
​62nd Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Masur, Louisiana
Big Names, Small Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California​
The New Salon: Arte del Pueblo, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, SB, CA
Teeny Tiny Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California
Celebrating Creativity, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey
The Ottmar Gallery Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts
78th Annual Juried Exhibition, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Breadth and Depth, The Bristol Museum of Art, Bristol, RI ​
Celebrating Creativity, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey​
​The New Salon: Arte del Pueblo, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, SB, CA
Big Names, Small Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA​​
Teeny Tiny Art Exhibition, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
44th Annual Juried Exhibition, Monmouth Musuem, Lincroft, NJ
​The Ottmar Gallery Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Saturation, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Miniature Monumental!  The Bristol Museum of Art, Bristol, RI
BIG Art in Small Packages, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
2023 Art Mix, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Big Names, Small Art 2023!  The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
5 x 5, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Montecito, CA
Off the Wall, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Women’s Board, SB, CA
​​6 x 6 2023, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Oregon
Watercolor USA 2022, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
​Salon des Refuses, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
​ARTMIX, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
​Miniatures: Big Art in Small Packages, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
​Hot Times - Cool Art, Palm Springs Museum of Art - Artist Council, Palm Springs, CA  - online​
​Back to Nature, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Hammond Museum / March Exhibition, Salem, NY - Online
​Reflections 20/20, Palm Springs Museum of Art - Artist Council, Palm Springs, CA - online
​Teeny Tiny Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Miniatures: Big ART in Small Packages 2020, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
​The Ottmar Gallery Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
​The Flat File Show, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Peoples’ Choice Award - Artists Council, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA - online
​​The Ottmar Gallery Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
​ I Am Me: Artists' Self-Portraits​, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA
33rd Annual Open Competition, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA
Miniatures: Big ART in Small Packages 2019, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Inspired Beginnings, Oceanside Museum of Art at Ashton Gallery, Oceanside, CA
The Ottmar Gallery Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum. Attleboro, MA​
​Off the Wall, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
​​Nature Abstracted, Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA
​5 x 5, The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Ottmar Gallery Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA​
8 Visions, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Brushstrokes 2017, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA​
Phenomena, Neutra Museum at Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA
​The Summer Annual Salon, MoFA - Museum of Fine Arts, ​Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Spotlight Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Miniatures: Big ART in Small Packages 2017, Monmouth Museum, NJ
Mini Masterpieces, ​Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
The Ottmar Gallery Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Nor’ Easter, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Pamela Benham / Paintings, Solo Exhibition, Karpeles Museum, SB, CA
Off the Wall, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Women’s Board, SB, CA
​2016 Flower Show, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Winter Wonders, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
​At the Walker Open Exhibition 2016, The Walker Art Gallery, Garnett, Kansas
Gateway to Imagination, Farmington Museum, Farmington, New Mexico
AbstraX@Karpeles, Karpeles Museum, SB, CA
Starting Here: A Selection of Distinguished Artists from UCSB
    Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
​Off the Wall, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Women’s Board, SB, CA
SB Artist Association Group Exhibition, Karpeles Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Off the Wall, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Women’s Board, SB, CA
From Dusk to Drawn, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
FORUMulations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Art of Devotion, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum, Montecito, CA
Focused on the Forum 2001, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Focused on the Forum 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
An Ange Passe, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum, Montecito, CA
Focused on the Forum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
​Pamela Benham / Paintings, Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York City, NY 
Group Show, Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, VT
Overview / Paintings by Pamela Benham, Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, VT
Group Exhibition, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
Paris Salon 76, Grand Palais, Paris
Union des Femmes Peintres, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris





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