Corporate Art - Artists -Jason Benjamin

What is it that we see? In the past, Jason Benjamin's paintings - of fruit or flowers or landscape - have been so intricately tied to emotion that they were really depictions of his mind. However, increasingly aware of the presence of the land itself ghosting his efforts, Benjamin has embarked upon investigations of a different kind. Once freed of imposed narrative, he has found the land reveals its inherent meaning. This of necessity is a slow form of discovery, perhaps based on a quiet receptivity grown from the artist's abiding interest in Eastern philosophy, and his personal odyssey for truth. Certainly the careful observation and detailed painterly rendering of this work is a process that celebrates the land's as-it-is-ness, and awakens for us new ways to engage with its beauty

.Melbourne-born Benjamin, whose first exhibition was in New York in 1989, now regularly intersects his Sydney-based life with visits to Japan. His work has met wide critical acclaim, and is represented in numerous public and private collections within Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian National Portrait Gallery, Artbank, and many regional galleries. Benjamin has won numerous prizes including the Kings School and Mosman Art Prizes, and has recently been a finalist in the prestigious Archibald and Moran Prizes. He exhibits extensively throughout Australia, and in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York.

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY
1971 Born in Melbourne, lives and works in Sydney 1989 - 90 Pratt Institute, New York City

SOLO EXHIBITIONS – SELECTED
2009 The Kiss of Life, BMGART, Adelaide
2009 Flesh and Blood, Metro 5 Art Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Who you’re supposed to be, Hirokazu Degawa, Hillside Forum, Tokyo
2008 Written on Land, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney 2008 Have you become my body?, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2007 Seven Parts to her Heart, Hirokazu Degawa, Tokyo
2007 Set yourself Free, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne 2007 If the Air could Speak, Galleria Tondinelli, Rome 2006 Where Dreams go…, BMGART, Adelaide 2006 Borderland, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2005 “There is a place”, Metro 5 Art Gallery, Melbourne, 5th October – 29th October
“Because of you I see the light”, Metro 5 Gallery, Sydney Art Fair, October
2004 “Lost time”, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, 12 November – 27 November
“In a heartbeat”, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne, 24th March- 22nd April
2003 Nicola Townsend, Daikenyama, Tokyo, Japan “The Clearing”, Greenhill Galleries, Perth,
10 October- 28th October
2002 “Lifting up the sun” Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 10 Sept – 28 Sept
Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2002 “This is love”, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne, 17 April- 5th May
2001 “I found the world so new”, Tim Olsen Gallery in conjunction with Amanda Wolfe-Daimpre, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Soho, Central, Hong Kong, 4th October- 17th October
2001 28 Charlotte St Gallery, London, England, 15 March- 7th April
Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne,10th March- 31st March
2001 “Good Luck”, Greenhill Galleries, Perth, 22nd May- 12 June
2000 “Belong”, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 30th May- 17th June
“Hold”, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, 17th August – 2nd September
“The hand upon your Back”, Greenhill Galleries, Perth, 14th March- 4th April
1999 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 3rd August- 21st August
1998 “Recent Work”, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney “Hopeful Prey”, Greenhill Galleries, Perth, 10th November- 27th November
1997 “Ghosts amongst the Angels”, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney, 12 August-30th August
1996 “Covered by the Rushes”, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney, 8th October- 19th October
1993 Crawford Gallery, Sydney
1990 Trinity College, Dallas, Texas, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2006 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2005 Archibald Prize,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 30th April- 3rd July Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, 9th July- 7th August Moree Plains Gallery, 13th August- 11th September Cowra Art Gallery, 17 September- 16 October
Albury Regional Art Gallery, 21 October- 13 November
Victorian Arts Centre, 25th November- 19th February, 2006
2005 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, 18 March – 9 April
2004 “Post-Modern and Contemporary Australian Art”, Savill Galleries, Sydney,
17 April- 8th May
2004 Archibald Prize,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
2003 William Creek and Beyond ,Ballarat Fine Art Gallery touring exhibition,
Shepparton Art Gallery, Tamworth City Gallery, New England Regional Art
Museum, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gladstone
Regional Art Gallery Museum, The Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra Cowra Art
Gallery.
2003 Savill Contemporary, Melbourne, 10 April- 11th May
“Don’t Look Down”, Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Art Miami, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Miami, USA
2002 3-person show, Bunkamura Gallery, in conjunction with Nicola Townsend,
Tokyo, Japan
2002 4x4 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
Art London 2002, London, England
The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
First Birthday Exhibition, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne, 8th May- 16th June
2001 Art London 2001, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, England, 22nd May- 26th May
2001 Nicola Townsend, Tokyo, Japan
Landscape Painting, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
Hills Grammar Art Award, Sydney
2000 Meet 2 x 2, Tim Olsen Gallery Sydney
Ten Australian Artists, Australian high commission Singapore
Nicola Townsend, Tokyo, Japan
Kings School Art Prize, Sydney
Norvill Landscape Prize, Murrundi
Conrad Jupiter Art Prize, Brisbane
Fleurieu Landscape Prize, South Australia
Tattersalls Landscape prize, Sydney
1999 Millennium Art Prize
University and Schools Club, Sydney
Westpac Art Prize, SCEGGS Redlands, Sydney
Tattersalls Landscape Prize, Brisbane
Kings School Art Prize, Sydney
1998 Salon de Refuses, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney Painting is not Dead, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1997 Kings School Art Prize, Sydney
1997 Jeans for Genes, Gianni Versace, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Devoured by Paint
1997 Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney
1996 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
1995 Exhibition with furniture, David Jones, Sydney 1994 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
Exhibition for David Jones Spring Flower Show, Sydney
1993 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
Salon de Refuses, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney
1991 Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1989 Mars, New York City
COLLECTIONS
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Derwent Collection, Tasmania
Artbank, Sydney
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Macquarie Bank, Victoria
Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria
Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Art Space Makay, Regional Art Gallery and Museum Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
AWARDS
2005 Packing Room Prize, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2004 Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2002 Finalist, The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 1997 Kings School Art Prize
COMMISSIONS
2004 Unfinished Journey, overseas project, exhibition and publication
2002 Queen Mary 11, London, sixteen paintings for new cruise ship
2001 Lake Eyre and Beyond, collaborative project involving ten prominent artists
for exhibition, a publication and print folio
2001 Burswood Hotel, Perth
2000 Chanel, Australia
rtDuo Art Consultants in Sydney and Booklyn Alliance in New York.

limited edition works on paper BACK TO GALLERY

jason benjamin
More Than He Could Hold multi-plate coloured etching 2005 limited edition of 55 (paper size 1080 x 860mm) (image size 815 x 560mm) Flying In and Filling Up My Hopeless Heart multi-plate coloured etching 2005 limited edition of 55 (paper size 1080 x 800mm) (image size 875 x 590mm) There's A Kid Here Next To Me etching (personalised Edition) 1/10 (paper size 650 x 390mm) You'll Be Given Love etching (artist proof) (paper size 390 x 290mm) I Don't Tell You Enough etching (artist proof) (paper size 390 x 290mm)	What is it that we see? In the past, Jason Benjamin's paintings - of fruit or flowers or landscape - have been so intricately tied to emotion that they were really depictions of his mind. However, increasingly aware of the presence of the land itself ghosting his efforts, Benjamin has embarked upon investigations of a different kind. Once freed of imposed narrative, he has found the land reveals its inherent meaning. This of necessity is a slow form of discovery, perhaps based on a quiet receptivity grown from the artist's abiding interest in Eastern philosophy, and his personal odyssey for truth. Certainly the careful observation and detailed painterly rendering of this work is a process that celebrates the land's as-it-is-ness, and awakens for us new ways to engage with its beauty .Melbourne-born Benjamin, whose first exhibition was in New York in 1989, now regularly intersects his Sydney-based life with visits to Japan. His work has met wide critical acclaim, and is represented in numerous public and private collections within Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian National Portrait Gallery, Artbank, and many regional galleries. Benjamin has won numerous prizes including the Kings School and Mosman Art Prizes, and has recently been a finalist in the prestigious Archibald and Moran Prizes. He exhibits extensively throughout Australia, and in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York. SELECTED BIOGRAPHY 1971 Born in Melbourne, lives and works in Sydney 1989 - 90 Pratt Institute, New York City SOLO EXHIBITIONS – SELECTED 2009 The Kiss of Life, BMGART, Adelaide 2009 Flesh and Blood, Metro 5 Art Gallery, Melbourne 2008 Who you’re supposed to be, Hirokazu Degawa, Hillside Forum, Tokyo 2008 Written on Land, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney 2008 Have you become my body?, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane 2007 Seven Parts to her Heart, Hirokazu Degawa, Tokyo 2007 Set yourself Free, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne 2007 If the Air could Speak, Galleria Tondinelli, Rome 2006 Where Dreams go…, BMGART, Adelaide 2006 Borderland, Greenhill Galleries, Perth 2005 “There is a place”, Metro 5 Art Gallery, Melbourne, 5th October – 29th October “Because of you I see the light”, Metro 5 Gallery, Sydney Art Fair, October 2004 “Lost time”, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, 12 November – 27 November “In a heartbeat”, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne, 24th March- 22nd April 2003 Nicola Townsend, Daikenyama, Tokyo, Japan “The Clearing”, Greenhill Galleries, Perth, 10 October- 28th October 2002 “Lifting up the sun” Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 10 Sept – 28 Sept Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane 2002 “This is love”, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne, 17 April- 5th May 2001 “I found the world so new”, Tim Olsen Gallery in conjunction with Amanda Wolfe-Daimpre, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Soho, Central, Hong Kong, 4th October- 17th October 2001 28 Charlotte St Gallery, London, England, 15 March- 7th April Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne,10th March- 31st March 2001 “Good Luck”, Greenhill Galleries, Perth, 22nd May- 12 June 2000 “Belong”, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 30th May- 17th June “Hold”, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, 17th August – 2nd September “The hand upon your Back”, Greenhill Galleries, Perth, 14th March- 4th April 1999 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 3rd August- 21st August 1998 “Recent Work”, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney “Hopeful Prey”, Greenhill Galleries, Perth, 10th November- 27th November 1997 “Ghosts amongst the Angels”, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney, 12 August-30th August 1996 “Covered by the Rushes”, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney, 8th October- 19th October 1993 Crawford Gallery, Sydney 1990 Trinity College, Dallas, Texas, USA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2006 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane 2006 Greenhill Galleries, Perth 2005 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 30th April- 3rd July Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, 9th July- 7th August Moree Plains Gallery, 13th August- 11th September Cowra Art Gallery, 17 September- 16 October Albury Regional Art Gallery, 21 October- 13 November Victorian Arts Centre, 25th November- 19th February, 2006 2005 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, 18 March – 9 April 2004 “Post-Modern and Contemporary Australian Art”, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 17 April- 8th May 2004 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003 William Creek and Beyond ,Ballarat Fine Art Gallery touring exhibition, Shepparton Art Gallery, Tamworth City Gallery, New England Regional Art Museum, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery Museum, The Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra Cowra Art Gallery. 2003 Savill Contemporary, Melbourne, 10 April- 11th May “Don’t Look Down”, Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan Art Miami, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Miami, USA 2002 3-person show, Bunkamura Gallery, in conjunction with Nicola Townsend, Tokyo, Japan 2002 4x4 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane Art London 2002, London, England The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize First Birthday Exhibition, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne, 8th May- 16th June 2001 Art London 2001, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, England, 22nd May- 26th May 2001 Nicola Townsend, Tokyo, Japan Landscape Painting, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne Hills Grammar Art Award, Sydney 2000 Meet 2 x 2, Tim Olsen Gallery Sydney Ten Australian Artists, Australian high commission Singapore Nicola Townsend, Tokyo, Japan Kings School Art Prize, Sydney Norvill Landscape Prize, Murrundi Conrad Jupiter Art Prize, Brisbane Fleurieu Landscape Prize, South Australia Tattersalls Landscape prize, Sydney 1999 Millennium Art Prize University and Schools Club, Sydney Westpac Art Prize, SCEGGS Redlands, Sydney Tattersalls Landscape Prize, Brisbane Kings School Art Prize, Sydney 1998 Salon de Refuses, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney Painting is not Dead, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne 1997 Kings School Art Prize, Sydney 1997 Jeans for Genes, Gianni Versace, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Devoured by Paint 1997 Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney 1996 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney 1995 Exhibition with furniture, David Jones, Sydney 1994 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney Exhibition for David Jones Spring Flower Show, Sydney 1993 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney Salon de Refuses, SH Erwin Gallery, Sydney 1991 Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney 1989 Mars, New York City COLLECTIONS Australian National Gallery, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Derwent Collection, Tasmania Artbank, Sydney Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Macquarie Bank, Victoria Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Art Space Makay, Regional Art Gallery and Museum Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra AWARDS 2005 Packing Room Prize, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales 2004 Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales 2002 Finalist, The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 1997 Kings School Art Prize COMMISSIONS 2004 Unfinished Journey, overseas project, exhibition and publication 2002 Queen Mary 11, London, sixteen paintings for new cruise ship 2001 Lake Eyre and Beyond, collaborative project involving ten prominent artists for exhibition, a publication and print folio 2001 Burswood Hotel, Perth 2000 Chanel, Australia rtDuo Art Consultants in Sydney and Booklyn Alliance in New York.