Exhibition History and Chronology
 
BORN—Providence, RI, 1960
 
EDUCATION

1975-1979—The Woodstock Country School, South Woodstock, Vermont
1979-1982—RISD, Painting
2004-2005—RISD, BFA Painting
  

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES

2025 – upcoming Residency at the Pollock-Krasner Studio, Springs, NY 
2019 – McCanna House Residency, North Dakota Museum of Art
2001-2002—The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Painting Fellowship
2016-2017—The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Painting Fellowship

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS


No upcoming exhibitions at this time


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2023—Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

2021—EVOKE Contemporary in Santa Fe, NM

2020—Grand Gestures, New Work by Christopher W. Benson

            Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 

2018—Through a Glass Darkly

            Jessica Hagen Fine Art and Design, Newport, RI

2017—Pictures and Windows, The Paintings of Christopher W. Benson 
            42-year Retrospective at The Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2014—Inside and Out, Recent Paintings by Christopher Benson
            Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014—Withheld Narratives, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2012—Christopher Benson, New Paintings, Gerald Peters, Santa Fe, NM
2006—Christopher Benson, Recent Seascapes
            Suydam and Diepenbrock Gallery, Newport, RI
2003—Tercera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000—Tercera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999—Tercera Gallery, Los Gatos, CA
1997—Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1992—LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1986—Arnold Art, Newport, RI
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2023-24—Passerby, the paintings of Christopher W. Benson and Russel Horton

            Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX

2023-24—ART IN THE MAKING, a group show of essayists from the book of the same name

            Nancy Devine Gallery, Warren, RI

2023—ART IN THE MAKING, a group show of essayists from the book of the same name

            EVOKE Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2022—Christopher W. Benson and Sue McNally

            North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

2020—Meltdown, Jessica Hagen Fine Art and Design, Newport, RI

2019—Group show at EVOKE Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2017—Santa Fe Real, group show with Sheila Miles and Kathryn Stedham,  
            Holt Russell Gallery, Baker University, KS 
2015—Quiet Spaces, Works by Christopher Benson, John Beerman
            David Hines
and Kurt Solmsson, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2015—Juried Group Show, Washington Art Association, Washington CT  
            Co-winner of Juror’s prize. William Bailey, Juror
2014—The West Select, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2014—Reimagining the Contemporary Landscape
            LewAllen Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
2013—Dwellings, Paintings by Peri Schwartz, Christopher Benson
            and Tom Birkner,
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011—Face to Face, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010—Artist Perspectives, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010—Christopher Benson and Thayer Carter,
            
The Fisher Press Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008—The Printed Picture, MoMA New York, NY
2005—RISD Senior Invitational Exhibition,
            
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2003—Christopher Benson and John Beerman
            Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
2003—Annual Juried Show, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2001—The Bensons of Newport, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
1999—Grand Opening exhibition, Tercera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000—Contemporary American Painting, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993—Christopher Benson and Peter Devine, Arnold Art, Newport, RI
1992—167th Annual Juried Exhibition, National Academy of Design
            New York, NY
1989—Featured Artist, LewAllen-Butler Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
 
COLLECTIONS

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota

The Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island

Baker University, Holt Russell Gallery, Baldwin City, Kansas
Stanford University Libraries, Special Collections, Stanford, California
Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island

Rhode Island School of Design Special Collections Library, Providence, Rhode Island

Duke University School of Law (Portrait of Dean David Levi), Durham, North Carolina
Stanford University School of Law (Portrait of Dean John Ely), Stanford. California
Stanford University School of Aeronautics and Aviation, (Portrait of Dean Nicholas Hoff)

PUBLICATIONS-REVIEWS

2017—The Providence Journal
2014—The Huffington Post
2014—New American Paintings
2014—THE Magazine, Critical Reflections
2013—THE Magazine, Critical Reflections
2012—ArtNews, summer issue, regional reviews
2012—Pasatiempo Magazine of the Santa Fe New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM
2008—The Printed Picture, MoMA, New York, NY
2004—Art New England, regional reviews
1992—The Albuquerque Journal North