Jason Benjamin (1971- ) is an Australian painter. Benjamin was born in Melbourne in 1971 and now lives and works in Sydney. He has been exhibiting since 1989 and won the 2005 people's choice award at the Archibald Prize with a painting of actor Bill Hunter titled "staring Down the Past". The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important Portraiture prize and is the most prominent of all arts prizes in Australia. Bill Hunter (born February 27 1940 is an Australian actor of Film, Stage and Television. He won the 1993, 1994 and 1996 Mosman Art Prizes in Sydney. Mosman art prize is an art award in Australia held in Mosman, a suburb of Sydney. In 1997, he was awarded the prestigious Kings School Art Prize for landscape painting.
After brief periods of study at Stony Brook School on Long Island and the prestigious Pratt Institute in New York, he returned to Australia in the early 1990s.
External links
- Jason Benjamin wins the packing room archibald
- Bill gets a kiss from the packing room
- Royalties for art's sake
- AGNSW Press Release
- The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2002
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