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