FRANCISCO BENITEZ
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 SELECTED ONE-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2024    “Le Regard intérieur”, Galerie de la Cascade, Salles-la-Source, France
2022     “Ut Pictura Poesis”, Salle des Editions, Gordes, France.
2021    “Visages”, Maestri Gallery, Dallas, TX.
2018    “Doña Inés Perdio’ su Zapatilla”, Royal Botanical Gardens, Madrid, Spain
2017    “Le Portrait Refiguré”, Musée Arts et Histoire, Bormes-les-Mimosas, France
2016    “Aristocrats Among Industrial Ruins”, PhilSpace, Santa Fe.
2015    “RI/SCATTI”, Palazzo Nicolaci, Noto, Italy, curated by Vincenzo Medica.
2014    “Doña Inés Lost Her Slipper”, Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery
2012    “Vulnerabilities”, Destiny Allison Fine Art, Santa Fe
2011    “Ut Pictura Poesis”, Nüart Gallery, Santa Fe.
            “Ancient Voices Through Modern Eyes”, Art Center Design College, Albuquerque, NM.
2010    “Ancient Voices Through Modern Eyes”, R&F Gallery, Kingston, NY.
            “Encaustiques”, Abbaye de Fontmorigny, France.
2009    “Imago Temporis”, Aci Castello, Italy, curated by Sabina Corsaro.
2008    “Ekfrasi”, Galleria Quadrifoglio, Syracuse, Italy. (held in conjunction with Festival of Ancient Greek Theater)
            “Dionisiaca”, Capella Bonjauto, Catania, Italy, curated by Sabina Corsaro.
2007    “De Effige Animi”, Studio Barnum, Noto, Sicily.
2006    “Tra mito e storia”, Monastero del Ritiro, Siracusa, Italy (held in conjunction with Festival of Ancient Greek                                 Theater)
2005    “Tempus Temporis”, Art & Industry, Santa Fe, NM.
2004    Red Box, Barjols, France (catalog).
2003    “The Bacchae”, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
           “Recent Works”, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
2002   “Mediterraneo”, Galleria d’arte Il Sagittario, Messina, Italy (catalog).
            “Pompeii Series”, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
2001    “Le Rouge et le Noir”, Aumônerie St-Jacques, Gordes, France
           Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
1999    “The Figure: From Color to Line”, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
1998    Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
           “An Art Alphabet”, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
1997    “The Senses”, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
           “Dialogues”, Galerie Sainte-Catherine, Rodez, France (with Lucille Colin).
1996    “Female Allegorical Portraits”, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
1994    “From Figurative to Abstract”, Santa Fe Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM.
1993    “Portraits”, 8th Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024    “Ecfrasi”, Koart Gallery, Catania, Italy, curated by Aurelia Nicolosi.
2023    “High and Dry”, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, curated by Jen Tough.
            "Ecoute la forêt plutôt que l'arbre qui tombe", Galerie de la Cascade, Salles-la-Source, France, curated by Jean-Luc Fau.
2021    “Wax Applications”, University Gallery, Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX, curated by Jane Cornish Smith
2019    “Mostra dell’estate”, Galleria Koart, Catania and Noto, Italy
2017    “Entre Culturas”, Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs, Gordes, France
2016    “Effimera”, Palazzo Rau, Noto, Italy, curated by Vincenzo Medica
            “La Fascinazione dell’Antico”, Rimini, Italy, curated by Aurelia Nicolosi
2012    “Three From New Mexico”, Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs, Gordes, France.
           “The Future of the Past”, Boston Center for the Arts, curated by Barb Cone & Harriette Chenkin.
2011    “Polemically Small”, Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by E. Lucie-Smith.
            “New Views of Encaustic Painting”, Keene State College, NH, curated by Peter Roos
2010    “Imperium” Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, organized by Thomas Howe PhD and curated by Edward Lucie-                    Smith
           “Waxing Poetic”, Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York
           “Farenheit 180: A Group Encaustic Exhibition”, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
           “Pollination”, Convention Center Gallery, Santa Fe.
2009    “Figurations II”, Nüart Gallery, Santa Fe.
            “Director’s Choice”, Chase Gallery, Boston.
2008    “Women of Bagdad and Prisoners and Deserts”, with Michele Ciacciofera, Chapelle des     Pénitants, Gordes, France.
2006    “Migrazioni” (important collective of Mediterranean artists), Siracusa, Italy (catalog).
            “La Visione Negata”, L’Arco e la Fonte, Siracusa, Italy (catalog).
            “The Figure”, Cline Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ.
2004    “The Figure”, Cline Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ.
2002    “Nostalgia: il paradiso ritrovato”, Chiostro di San Francesco, Sorrento, Italy.
2001    “The Death of Painting”, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM; curated by Guy Ambrosino and Jon Carver.
2000    “Sanctified or Censored”, Santuario de Guadalupe, Santa Fe, NM; curated by Monica Steinhoff.
            “Un ensemble d’artistes”, Galerie Thuillier, Paris, France.
            “Revealing the Nude”, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA (catalog).
1999    “Realism ‘99”, Van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1998    “Ida y Vuelta: Twelve New Mexico Artists”, Musée Denys-Puech, Rodez, France.
            “Faces of Woman”, Las Vegas Arts Council, Las Vegas, NM.
            “MICRO-Exhibition”, Galleri COLON, Borås, Sweden.
1997    “Figure and Fantasy”, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA (catalog).
1995    “Biennale Méditerranéenne de la Jeune Peinture”, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art    Contemporain, Nice, France (catalog).
            “Salon d’Octobre”, Association Espace Montauriol, Montauban, France.
1994    “Visions of Excellence VIII”, Fine Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
            “Thirty Under Thirty”, Ralph Greene Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
1993    “Collage”, The Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
            “The Nude: From Classical to Erotic”, Island Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
                       
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts of Fine Arts, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1991. Semester of graduate-level independent study (Painting), University of New Mexico (1992). Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Granada, Spain (1990-1991). New York University, Dept. of Art History (1989). Art Student’s League, New York (1987-1988). St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM (1985-1987).
 
RECENT HONORS AND ACTIVITIES


  • Premio Internazionale de Agrò, Visual Arts, Italy, 2024
  • Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (Javier Gonzalez), 2016
  • La Vendéenne Award, for excellence in encaustic painting, 2014
  • Successful kickstarter.com campaign for Doña Inés Lost Her Slipper project, 2014
  • Taught two workshops at Harvard Art Museums for encaustic painting in 2022

 
Public Collections
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Permanent Display, Albuquerque, NM.
New Mexico State Legislature, Permanent Collection
Conseil Général de l’Aveyron, France
Numerous private collections : United States, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Mexico, UK,
etc.
 
Press
 
Numerous articles from art publications in the United States, Italy, and France
 
A full list can be provided upon request
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