Jason Benjamin
{{Short description|Australian painter (1971–2021)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=May 2015}}
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| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| nationality = Australian
| field = Painting
| training = Pratt Institute
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| death_date = 16 February 2021 (aged 49)
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Jason Benjamin (1971 – 16 February 2021) was an Australian painter.
Biography
Benjamin was born in Melbourne in 1971. In his youth he lived in the United States and Mexico. After brief periods of study at The Stony Brook School on Long Island and the Pratt Institute in New York City, he returned to Australia in the early 1990s.
He began exhibiting his artwork 1989 and won the 2005 Packing Room Prize at the Archibald Prize with a painting of actor Bill Hunter titled Staring down the past.{{Cite web|last=Kruger|first=Paula|date=2005-04-21|title=The World Today – Jason Benjamin wins the Packing Room Archibald|url=http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1350750.htm|access-date=2021-02-18|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}{{Cite web|date=2005-04-22|title=Bill gets a kiss from the packing room|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/bill-gets-a-kiss-from-the-packing-room-20050422-gdl6cu.html|access-date=2021-02-18|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}} He won the 1993, 1994 and 1996 Mosman Art Prizes in Sydney. In 1997 he was awarded the Kings School Art Prize for landscape painting. He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Benjamin was found dead in the Murrumbidgee River near Carrathool, New South Wales on 16 February 2021, aged 50.{{Cite web|date=2021-02-18|title=Prominent Australian artist found dead at 50|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-18/prominent-artist-jason-benjamin-found-dead-in-murrumbidgee-river/13167074|access-date=2021-02-18|publisher=ABC News|location=Australia|language=en-AU}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/05/1031115911326.html Royalties for art's sake]
- [http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/archibald05/media/prp_winner AGNSW Press Release]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070905180610/http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/moran2002/4.cfm The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2002]
- [http://www.buratti.com.au/#!jason-benjamin/c23dt Jason Benjamin at Buratti Fine Art]
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Category:Pratt Institute alumni
Category:The Stony Brook School alumni
Category:Painters from Melbourne
Category:Archibald Prize finalists
Category:Archibald Prize Packing Room Prize winners
Category:Australian expatriates in the United States
Category:Australian expatriates in Mexico
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