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b. Taos, New Mexico
1967
Education
1992 Semester long graduate level independent study at UNM
1991 BA in Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1987-88 Art Students League
1985-87 St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM
Solo Exhibitions
2004 Red Box, Barjols,
France 2003 The Bacchae, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA, 2 person show
2002 Galleria d’arte Il Sagittario, Messina, Italy
2002 Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA, 2 person show
2000 Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1999 The Figure: From Color to Line, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe,
NM
1998 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA, 2 person show
1998 An Art Alphabet, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1997 The Senses, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1997 Dialogues, Galerie Sainte-Catherine, Rodez France, 2 person show
1996 Female Allegorical Portraits, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1994 From Figurative to Abstract, Santa Fe Contemporary Art, NM
1993 Portraits, 8th Street Gallery, Albuuquerque, NM
Group Exhibitions
2004 The Figure,
Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe/Scottsdale
2002 Nostalgia: il paradiso ritrovato, Chiostro di San Francesco, Sorrento,
Italy
2001 Le Rouge et le Noir, l'Aumonerie St-Jacques, Gordes (Provence), France
2001 The Death of Painting, Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, NM, curated
by Guy Ambrosiono & Jon Carver
2000 Sanctified or Censored, Santuario de Guadalupe, Santa Fe, NM
2000 Un ensemble d'artistes, Galerie Thuillier, Paris
2000 Revealing the Nude, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 A Show of Hands, Guadalupe Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Día de los muertos, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Francisco Benítez & Stephen Coyle, Chase Gallery, Boston,
MA (2 person show)
1999 Realism 99, Van De Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1998 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA (2 person show)
1998 Faces of Woman, Las Vegas Art Council. Las Vegas, NV
1998 Figure & Fantasy, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 Ida y Vuelta: Artistes du Nouveau-Mexique, Musee Denys Puech, Rodez,
France
1998 Micro-Exhibition, Galleri COLON, Boras, Sweden
1995 Biennale Mediterraneenne de la Jeune Peinture, Musee d’Art Moderne
et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
1995 Salon d’Octobre, Espace Montauriol, Montauban, France
1995 Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1994 Visions of Excellence VIII, Fair Fine Arts Gallery, Albuquerque,
NM
1994 Thirty Under Thirty, Ralph Greene Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1993 Orbit, AUA/Rawspace, Albuquerque, NM
1993 Collage, The Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 The Nude: From Classical to Erotic, Island Gallery, Albuquerque,
NM
1993 Eleventh Annual Invitational, Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque,
NM
1993 Amos Joseph Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1993 AR-TIK-YU-LAYT, AUA/Rawspace, Albuquerque, NM
1992 Seeing Red: The Group Show, Island Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Bibliography
Tania Toscano, The Communicative Force of Francisco Benitez, La sicilia,
Sicily, 6/16/02
Luigi La Rosa, Benitez:
A Tast of the Antique, Centenove, Sicily, 6/14/03
Lynn Cline, Baroque
Light, The New Mexican, 1/26-2/1/01
Dottie Indyke, Art Notes, Pasatiempo, 9/1/00
Paul Weidman, The Journey from New Mexico to Rodez, France, Pasatiempo,
4/23/99
Christine Frérot, Roundtrip: Twelve Artists from New Mexico, Art
Nexus, 1999
Peinture Fraîche, Host - Jean Daive, Radio France, Paris, 7/23/98
Ida y Vuelta, Gazette des Tribunaux du Midi, 7/10/98
New Work Reflects Growth, by Wesley Pulkka, Albuquerque Journal North,
4/9/98
Nuevo Mélange, by Kathleen McCould, Santa Fe New Mexican, 3/29/98.
Dramatic Contrasts Between Darkness & Light, by Kathleen McCloud,
Pasatiempo, 2/14/97.
Everywoman According to Paco Benitez by Gussie Fauntleroy, Pasatiempo,
5/3/96.
Female Allegorical Portraits by Diane Armitage, THE Magazine, 6/96.
Un Americain a Rodez by Myriam Laffont, La Depeche du Midi (France), 12/20/95
Critical Reflections--Francisco Benitez by Diane Armitage, THE Magazine,
1 & 2/95
Activities
Collaboration with
Associazione Culturale Cypraea and Comune di Pompei to organize exhibition
of "Metaphorical Pinakotheke" in Campania region for 2006. Lived for three
months in Campania region in Italy (2002) to study Pompeian frescoes and
17th century Neapolitan School. Lecture, "Light and Spirituality in Baroque
Painting: Georges de La Tour", St. JohnÕs College, Santa Fe, NM, January,
2001.
Organized and curated with Laurence Imbernon, curator (Musee Denys Puech),
Artistes du Nouveau-Mexique, and exhibition showcasing New Mexico emerging
contemporary artists in a museum venue in France. Conferences and educational
activites organized in conjunction with exhibition (1997-1998).
Taught methods of Old Master techniques at Verlezarts, Rodez, France (1996).
Curated with Karen Rudd, artist, AR-TIK-YU-LAYT, an AUA juried exhibition
(1993).
Secretary for Albuquerque United Artists (1992-1993).
Member of the Harwood Center (building with over 40 artists’ studios),
Albuquerque (1991-1994).
Collections
New Mexico State
Legislature Public Art Collection (permanent display), Santa Fe, NM. National
Hispanic Arts Center, permanent collection of contemporary Latino artists,
Albuquerque, NM. Conseil Gˇnˇral de lÕAveyron, Rodez, France Numerous
private collections in US, Europe, and Latin America.
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