Paul M. Benavidez

BIBLIOGAPHY / RESUME

EDUCATION
2002 Ventura College; Directed Studies, Multimedia Dept.
2001 Ventura College
2000 Ventura College
1996 Bachelor of Arts, Art Studio, UCSB
1996 Art Studio, University of California at Santa Barbara
1995 Ventura College
1976–1977 College of Creative Studies, UCSB
1974–1977 Art Studio, University of California at Santa Barbara
1973–1974 Santa Barbara Art Institute, Santa Barbara, California
1970–1972 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California; awarded "Honors Certificate of Superior Achievement in Drawing", June 1972
1967–1968 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003 to present Co-founder, co-owner/co-director with Carolyn Friend of Upfront Gallery in Ventura, Ca. Specializing in high contemporary art of established and emerging California artists. www.upfrontgallery.org

SELECTED EXHIBITION, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, AWARDS
2006 City of Ventura Municipal Fellowship Exhibition, Nathan Larramendy, curator
2006 Viridian Artists 17th Annual Exhibition; Robert Rosenblum, jurist
2006 "Chaos" exhibit Long Beach Arts Gallery; Darlene D. DeAngelo, jurist.
2006 Ventura Music Festival Instruments Sculpture Commission
2005 Snap to Grid group exhibition Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
2005 Grant Recipient for 2005/06 City of Ventura Artist Fellowship Program
2005 New Botanical Studies, Joni Pence Interiors Studio
2005 First Place Winner, Millard Sheets Art Gallery Foundation 2005 Contemporary Fine Art Competition and Exhibition, category Figurative.
2005 New Digital Works, PhotoVentura Paul Benavidez Studio
2005 Focus on the Masters Ventura Artists Studio Tour
2005 Taboo group exhibit; Studio Montclair, New Jersey, Jerry Saltz, jurist
2004 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Open, Los Angeles
2004 Selected artist acquisition for City of San Buenaventura Municipal Art Permanent Collection
2004 "Snatch," erotic group show, Upfront Gallery
2003 "Foundations" concurrent with featured Harvest Artwalk Artist and Art City founder, Paul Lindhard, at San Buenaventura Artist Union Gallery
2003 Avant Garde Photography Juried Show
2003 Artist Fellowship Showcase, City of San Buenaventura Cultural Affairs hosted grant recipients exhibition.
2003 Benavidez/Pedziwiatr at Upfront Gallery
2003 Love War, San Buenaventura Artist Union Gallery, Ventura, Ca.
2002 Three Exhibitions at Studio Channel Islands Art Center, CSU Channel Islands.
2002 Group Exhibition, Long Beach Art Center
2002 Stone Works Spring Group Show
2002 Art City Group Show, Ventura, CA
2001 Summer Art Walk screening of "Rotkejorp", a privately produced 15 minute art video. Screened on Main Street with ten by seven foot video projection.
2001 "Annual Erotic Group Show", Art City Gallery, Ventura, Ca.
2000 "Sign of the Times," Art City Group Show
2000 V2 Gallery Group Millennium Show, Art City, Ventura, CA
2000 "A Piece at a Time" Millennium Group Show, Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles, Ca. Mark Greenfield, Director.
1999 Presentation of "Millennium Video; Humans as Species." Presented for the Millennium Art Walk for Ventura. A recycling 8-minute computer generated digital/flash outdoor video projection of twenty by fifteen foot aspect ratio with amplified sound track and internet chat-room hosted by Leonard Shlain, author of "Art and Physics," "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess," "Sex, Time, and Power.
1999 Recipient of City of Ventura Cultural Affairs Commission for "Millennium Video."
1999 V2 Gallery Group Show, Art City II Gallery, Ventura, Ca.
1999 "Gaia, Goddess of Earth", an art installation for the Environmental Art Walk for the City of Ventura
1998 Winner 1998-99 Artist Fellowship Grant, San Buenaventura Office of Cultural Affairs
1998 Ventura Summer Art Walk special exhibition of "A Surrealistic Manage a Trois", art installation.
1998 "Collaborations," three person collaboration art installation titled, "A Surrealistic Manage a Trois", Art City Gallery
1998 V2 Gallery Group Export Show, Ventura
1998 V2 Show, San Buenaventura Music Festival
1998 "April Fools Show" Art City II Gallery, Ventura
1998 "Synergy", group show, Art City II Gallery, Ventura
1997 Ventura Artists Union Juried Show, Art City II Gallery
1997 "Arcadian Principles" art installation installed in the obsolete Ventura Women Jail Facility, in conjunction with composer Jeff Kaiseršs "Gans Andere".
1997 Winner, SITE 2nd Annual National Comp. Los Angeles; Henry Hopkins, Jurist
1997 "Mothers in Black, Women in Black", art installation for Ventura Fall Art Walk.
1997 "We Love Our Country" One Person Show. Three venues in Ventura
1997 Ventura River Bio-Region Group Show, Art City II Gallery, Ventura
1997 Spring Art Walk š97 Art City II Group Show, Ventura
1996 Winner 1996-97 Artist Fellowship Grant, City of San Buenaventura Cultural Affairs.