Benjamin Bellas (born 29 March 1976) is an American
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...
. He was formerly an adjunct professor at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...
.
Through poetic narratives, Bellas unexpectedly relocates autobiographical moments of enmity, longing and uncomfortable honesty in banal visual forms. By transforming everyday objects into sometimes-humorous icons of his most intimate life experiences, his work can be seen as a high-wire balancing act between intellect and emotion that manifests itself as a synthesis of the Humanities.
Benjamin Bellas is a 2007 recipient of an
Illinois Arts Council International project grant and has exhibited at
1a space, Hong Kong;
Istanbul Exhibition Center, Turkey;
Track 16, Los Angeles;
Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland;
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Florean Museum of Contemporary Art, Romania; among many others.
Notes
External links
Official websiteWashington College Faculty Bio
American contemporary artists
1976 births
Living people
Artists from Chicago
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