Last updated May, 2024

EXHIBITIONS
May 2024 RiverSea Gallery – Astoria, OR: “Maybe Not the Norm”
Aug 2023 Haven Gallery – Northport NY: Solo Show “Rain House”
Aug 2022 Haven Gallery – Northport NY: Solo Show “Make Believe”
Nov 2021 RiverSea Gallery – Astoria OR: Solo Show “Islands”
Aug 2021 Copro Gallery – Santa Monica CA: Solo Show “Into and Out of the Light”
Nov 2020 RiverSea Gallery – Astoria OR: “Cat Astrophe” with Jill McVarish
Sept 2020 La Luz de Jesus Gallery – Los Angeles CA: “Come on In – three person show”
Oct 2019 RiverSea Gallery – Astoria OR: “Night at the Natural History Museum” with Jill McVarish
Sep 2019 Guardino Gallery – Portland OR: “Exquisite Corpse 2” with Karen Wippich and Nanette Wallace
Jun 2019 Guardino Gallery – Portland OR: Solo Show
Sep 2018 Ford Gallery – Portland OR: “Exquisite Corpse” with Karen Wippich and Nanette Wallace
Jul 2018 SideStreet Arts Gallery – Portland OR: “Natural/Supernatural” guest artist with Dawn Panttaja
Oct 2017 RiverSea Gallery – Astoria OR: “Night at the Haunted Big Top” with Jill McVarish
Jun 2017 Guardino Gallery – Portland OR: “Moments Before and After”
Nov 2016 Blackfish Gallery – Portland OR: Guest show in window space. “Refraction”
Sep/Oct 2016 RACC Portland Building Installation Space – Portland OR: “The Bridge”
Oct 2015 RiverSea Gallery – Astoria OR: “Supernatural Aid”
May 2015 Guardino Gallery – Portland OR: “Apparitions”
Nov/Dec 2014 Seven Virtues – Portland OR: “Transformations and Apparitions”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Feb 2024 LA ART SHOW – Los Angeles CA: Copro Gallery Booth
Oct 2023 Mortal Machine Gallery – New Orleans LA: “Abracadabra Group Show”
Sept 2023 Copro Gallery – Santa Monica CA: “18th Annual BLAB! Show”
Mar 2023 Copro Gallery – Santa Monica CA: “H.R. Giger Tribute Show”
Feb 2023 LA ART SHOW – Los Angeles CA: Copro Gallery Booth
Oct 2022 RiverSea Gallery – Astoria OR: “The Secret Show”
Sept 2022 Copro Gallery – Santa Monica CA: “17th Annual BLAB! Show”
Sept 2022 Guardino Gallery – Portland OR: “Day of the Dead Show”
May 2022 Nucleus Gallery – Portland OR: “Salut! 7 Coaster Show”
May 2022 Copro Gallery – Santa Monica CA: “7 Artists”
Jan 2022 LA ART SHOW – Los Angeles CA: Copro Gallery Booth
Sept 2021 Copro Gallery – Santa Monica CA: “16th Annual BLAB! Show”
July 2021 LA ART SHOW – Los Angeles CA: Copro Gallery Booth
July 2021 Haven Gallery – Long Island NY: “Wilde – An Oscar Wilde Group Show”
Apr 2021 Haven Gallery – Long Island NY: “Lewis Carroll Group Show”
Dec 2020 Modern Eden Gallery – San Francisco CA: “Full Circle”
Nov 2020 WOWxWOW – UK: “Portals”
Sept 2020 Copro Gallery – Santa Monica CA: “15th Annual BLAB! Show”
Sept 2020 Modern Eden Gallery – San Francisco CA: “Spirit Board”
Mar 2020 La Luz de Jesus Gallery – Los Angeles CA: “Everything but the Kitschen Sync”
Jan 2020 WOWxWOW – UK: “Ecstatic Flux”
Dec 2019 Booth Gallery – New York NY: “Microdose”
Aug 2019 Arcadia Contemporary – Pasadena CA: “Five and Under”
Dec 2018 RiverSea Gallery – Astoria OR: “Ephemera: Imagined Memorabilia of Astoria”
Dec 2018 Guardino Gallery – Portland OR: “Little Things 2018 Show”
Oct 2018 Portland Open Studios – Portland OR
Mar 2018 Portland’5 Center/Air Gallery – Portland OR: “It’s Raining Cats and Dogs”
Dec 2017 RiverSea Gallery – Astoria OR: “Catch the Moon”
Dec 2017 Chris Haberman Presents Big 500 Art Show – Portland OR: “Big 500 Art Show”
Sept 2017 Guardino Gallery – Portland OR: “Day of the Dead Show”
Feb 2017 RiverSea Gallery – Astoria OR: “Mayhem and Magic: The Gods and Goddesses are Back”
Oct 2016 Gallery 135 – Portland OR: “Day of the Dead – Honor thy Music”
Sept 2016 Guardino Gallery – Portland OR: “Day of the Dead Show”
2015 Gallery-a-Go-Go – Denver CO: Traveling gallery
Sept 2015 Guardino Gallery – Portland OR: “Day of the Dead Show”
Jul 2015 Good:a Gallery – Portland OR: “Pieces and Parts, an Anatomy Group Show”
2010 Temporary space – Portland OR: “SHARE 1st Anniversary show
2009 Show and Tell Gallery – Portland OR: “Feeling: A Touching Show”
2007 Portland Art Center – Portland OR: “It Takes a Village to Raise an Art Center”
2007 Portland Art Center – Portland OR: “PDX Panels”
2007 Art of Change Gallery – Portland OR: “Legacy of Change”
2006 Collage – Portland OR: “The Trade Show”
1992 Rare Books Room, Univ. of Colorado Library – Boulder CO: “The Art of the Book”
1992 Edge Gallery – Denver CO: “Changing Seats on the Titanic”
1991 Core New Art Space – Denver CO: “Practical Work”
1991 University of Colorado Galleries – Boulder CO: BFA Exhibition
1991 Bill’s Grocery – Denver CO: “20th Century Mistresspieces”
1989 UMC Fine Art Gallery: Boulder CO: “Show2”
1988 UMC Fine Art Gallery: Boulder CO: “Show”
AWARDS
2019 Professional Development Grant by the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) Portland, OR
2016 Art Installation Commission by the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) Portland, OR
PUBLISHED ART BOOKS
2022 Benz and Chang – Collected Paintings 2017 – 2021
2017 Benz and Chang – Collected Paintings 2015 – 2017
1997 Ants!
Small press run of 300 copies with hand screenprinted covers
1996 The Durian Trilogy
50 copies each of three volumes, xeroxed and hand bound
1994 most of this is true
Small press run of 500 copies
1990 Everyday Dismemberment
50 copies xeroxed and hand bound
1989 Another and Again
Small press run of 25 copies, hand bound
EDUCATION
1991 University of Colorado, Boulder
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting
COLLECTIONS
Library of the Art Institute of Chicago
Art Books collection of the Univerity of Colorado, Boulder

Benz and Chang is artist Benz and imaginary studio partner Mr. Chang