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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
SELECTED ONE-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2008 “Ekfrasi”, Galleria Quadrifoglio, Syracuse, Italy. (held in conjunction with Festival of Ancient Greek Theater)
2007 “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.
2003 “Recent Works”, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
2002 “Mediterraneo”, Galleria d’arte Il Sagittario, Messina, Italy (catalog).
2002 “Pompeii Series”, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
2001 “Le Rouge et le Noir”, Aumônerie St-Jacques, Gordes, France
2001 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
1999 “The Figure: From Color to Line”, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
1998 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
1998 “An Art Alphabet”, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
1997 “The Senses”, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
1997 “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
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).
2006 “La Visione Negata”, L’Arco e la Fonte, Siracusa, Italy (catalog).
2006 “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.
2000 “Un ensemble d’artistes”, Galerie Thuillier, Paris, France.
2000 “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.
1998 “Faces of Woman”, Las Vegas Arts Council, Las Vegas, NM.
1998 “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).
1995 “Salon d’Octobre”, Association Espace Montauriol, Montauban, France.
1994 “Visions of Excellence VIII”, Fine Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
1994 “Thirty Under Thirty”, Ralph Greene Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
1993 “Collage”, The Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1993 “The Nude: From Classical to Erotic”, Island Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
ACTIVITIES
Collaborated with Nathan Florence for landscape/old masters workshop with Waterford students summer 2006 in Tuscany
Lived for three months in Campania region in Italy (2002) to study Pompeian frescoes and 17th century Neapolitan School. Continues to return to the region yearly to study frescoes.
Lecture, “Light and Spirituality in Baroque Painting: Georges de La Tour”, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM, January, 2001.
Curator and co-organizer of the exhibition, “Ida y Vuelta: Twelve New Mexico Artists”, Musée Denys-Puech, Rodez, France, summer, 1998 (catalog).
Taught old master techniques at Verlézarts, Rodez, France (1996-97).
Secretary for Albuquerque United Artists, Albuquerque, NM (1992-93). Also organized exhibitions and did volunteer teaching.
Commissioned to do painting for book cover of Sor Juana’s Second Dream by Alicia
Gaspar de Alba, University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
SELECTED PRESS
Daniela Frisone, “La mostra di F Benitez un gioiso turbamento”, La Sicilia, May 21, 2006.
Paolo Randazzo, “I volti antichi di Benitez”, Centanove, May 26, 2006.
Arturo Messina, “Come dovevano dipingere un tempo”, Libertà, May 23, 2006.
Michael Moore, “Tempus Temporis”, THE Magazine, November, 2005.
Teri Thomson Randall, “Benítez’ Dramatis Personae”, Pasatiempo (cover), Oct. 17, 2003.
Dottie Indyke, “Classic Freedom”, Albuquerque Journal North, Oct. 17, 2003.
Luigi La Rosa, “Benitez Sapore Antico”, Centanove, Messina, Sicily, June 14, 2002.
Tania Toscano, “La forza communicativa di Francisco Benitez”, La Sicilia, June 16, 2002.
Lynn Cline, “Baroque Light”, Pasatiempo, January 25, 2001.
Paul Weidman, “The Journey from New Mexico to Rodez, France”, Pasatiempo, April 23, 1999.
Christine Frérot, “Ida y Vuelta: Twelve Artists from New Mexico”, Art Nexus, Spring 1999.
Featured Artist and Curator, “Peinture Fraîche”, host Jean Daive, Radio France, Paris,
July 23, 1998.
Nicole Zimmermann, “Ida y Vuelta”, Gazette des Tribunaux du Midi, July 10, 1998.
Wesley Pulkka, “New Work Reflects Growth”, Albuquerque Journal, April 9, 1998.
Kathleen McCloud, “Nuevo Mélange—Ida y Vuelta”, Santa Fe New Mexican, March 29, 1998.
Hollis Walker, “Francisco Benítez: A New Dialogue with the Past”, Pasatiempo, March 20, 1998.
Kathleen McCloud, “Dramatic Contrasts Between Darkness & Light”, Pasatiempo, Feb. 20, 1997.
Diane Armitage, “Female Allegorical Portraits”, THE Magazine, June 1996.
Gussie Fauntleroy, “Everywoman According to Francisco Benítez”, Pasatiempo, May 3, 1996.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Permanent Display, Albuquerque, NM.
New Mexico State Legislature, Permenent Collection
Conseil Général de l’Aveyron, France
Numerous private collections : United States, France, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Mexico, UK, etc. |