MIKE BENEVENIA
EDUCATION
2016-2014 Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
2010-2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, Visual Art, Art History; Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 [Upcoming] Carrying the wound, Pry House Field Hospital Museum, Antietam National Battlefield, Keedysville, Maryland.
2020 [Upcoming] Solo Exhibition, The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum, Washington, DC.
2020 [Upcoming] Gravity and other fistfights, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania.
2019 Gravity and other fistfights, Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery, Coker College, Hartsville, South Carolina.
2019-2018 Redressing the wound, The National Museum of Civil War Medicine [NMCWM], Frederick, Maryland.
2017 Michael Benevenia: Selected works, National Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine, Clarion Conference Center, Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
2016 Gravity and other fistfights, Gallery Aferro, Newark, New Jersey.
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Threshold [with Emily Bayless], Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
2017 Relief Work [with John Richardson], Montgomery College, Silver Spring, Maryland.
2016 Observation and Exploration [with Marcia Wolfson Ray], Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland.
2015 Peeled Back [with Alana Ferguson], Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Love at the Time of Revolution, Print Club Delhi, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, India; invitational.
2019 Quaint, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; invited by Henry Gepfer.
2019 Millersville University Faculty Exhibition, Ware Center, Millersville University, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
2019 Contemporary Sculpture, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; juried by John Hatfield.
2018 Silent Night, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; invited by the Echo Artist Group.
2018 Repurposed with Purpose, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland; invited by Doreen Bolger.
2018 Persistence of the Figure, Greenville Center for the Creative Arts, Greenville, South Carolina.
2018 Sondheim Semi-finalist Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
2018 Off the Wall: Contemporary Sculpture, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
2018 Mid Atlantic New Painting 2018, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
2018 Millersville University Faculty Exhibition, Ware Center, Millersville University, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
2017 Works in Progress Exhibition, Sculpture Space Inc., Utica, New York.
2017 radius250, artspace, Richmond, Virginia; juried by Francis Thompson.
2017 In my room, Linden Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; invited by Selina Doroshenko.
2017 PaARTners Resident Artist Exhibition, Ware Center, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; invited by Marci Nelligan.
2017 Millersville University Faculty Exhibition, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
2017 Millersville University Faculty Exhibition, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
2017 Millersville University Faculty Works on Paper, The Ware Center, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
2017 Millersville University Faculty Exhibition, Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
2016 Sondheim Semi-finalist Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; juried by Tim Griffin, Rujeko Hockley, and Mia Locks.
2016 Fathers, Brothers, Sons, SPACECAMP, Baltimore, Maryland.
2016 #NAILEDIT, Treat Gallery, New York City, New York.
2016 Typecast, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC; juried by Jarvis DuBois.
2016 Outside the Margins: Contemporary Artists’ Books, Loyola University, Baltimore, Maryland; juried by Kim Banister.
2016 process: Metal IV, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2016 Maryland Institute College of Art Graduate Thesis Show 3, SPACECAMP, Baltimore, Maryland.
2016 Up Against the Wall, The Art Alliance of Monmouth County, Red Bank, New Jersey; invited by Doug Ferrari.
2015 The Span Between Us, Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland; juried by Stephanie Bursese.
2015 In Place, Global Mall at the Crossings, Nashville, Tennessee; juried by Alexine Rioux, Mika Agari, and Kayla Saito.
2015 2015 Annual Juried Exhibition, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, Maryland.
2015 Tracing Fictions, The Station North Chicken Box, Baltimore, Maryland.
2015 Dream/dirt X rinehart, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
2014 Now You See Me, Seton Hall School of Law, Newark, New Jersey; invited by Ebony Simpson.
2014 Arts, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey.
2014 Rine<3, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
2014 Day by Day II, Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, New Jersey.
2014 Navigation Puzzle, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware.
2014 74th Regional Exhibition, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York.
2014 State of Being, Arts Guild New Jersey., Rahway, New Jersey.
2014 Viewpoints 2014, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey.
2014 Open Orange, Firehouse Gallery, Orange, New Jersey; Juried by Antonio Sergio Bessa, Deidre, Harris-Kelley, and Naima J. Keith.
2014 Initium Novum, Dacia Gallery, New York City, New York.
2014 35th Annual Juried Exhibition, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey.
2013 Ancestors, Guardians and Guides, Charles Sumner School Museum, Washington, DC; Juried by Jarvis DuBois.
2011 Teamwork, Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, New Jersey.
2011 Wounded in Action, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois.
2010 Beyond the Refrigerator Door, Governors Island, New York, New York City.
2010 Stay Rad, Stay Focused, BFA Thesis exhibition, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
2010 Wounded in Action, Russell Senate Office Rotunda Washington, DC.
2010 Wounded in Action, University of Maryland., Baltimore, Maryland.
2010 Wounded in Action, American Academy of Orthapedic Surgeons Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
RESIDENCIES
2023-2022 [Upcoming] Artist-in-Residence, NMCWM: Pry House Field Hospital at Antietam National Battlefield, Keedysville, Maryland.
2022-2021 [Upcoming] Artist-in-Residence, NMCWM: Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum, Washington, DC.
2020 Visiting Teaching Artist-in-Residence, Artreach India, New Delhi, India.
2020-2019 Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
2019-2018 Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland.
2017 Sculpture Space Artist-in-Residence, funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, Sculpture Space Inc., Utica, New York.
AWARDS + FELLOWSHIPS
2020-2019 Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Fellowship: Sculpture, India, United States-India Educational Foundation, United States Department of State.
2019 Faculty Professional Development Travel Grant, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
2018 Semi-Finalist, Janet & Walter Sondheim ARTSCAPE Prize, Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Baltimore, Maryland.
2017 Finalist, Art Kudos International Juried Art Competition & Exhibition, artkudos.com
2016 Semi-Finalist, Janet & Walter Sondheim ARTSCAPE Prize, Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Baltimore, Maryland.
2016 Rinehart Graduation Award, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
2015 Graduate Travel Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
2016-2014 Rinehart School of Sculpture Merit Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
2014 Award Recipient, Jan-Ai Scholarship Fund, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Art and Design, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
Foundations: 3D Design, Spring. Instructor of record. [22 students].
2018 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Art and Design, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
Foundations: 3D Design, Spring. Instructor of record. [20 students].
2017 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Art and Design, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
Foundations: 3D Design, Spring. Instructor of record. [19 students].
2015 Teaching Assistant [to Peter Karis], Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
Interdisciplinary Sculpture Dept.: Metal Fabrication and Foundry Processes, Fall.
2015 Teaching Assistant [to Chrissy Day], Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. Fiber Department: Introduction to Fiber, Fall.
2015 Teaching Assistant [to Lisa Dillin], Maryland. Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
Interdisciplinary Sculpture Dept.: Introduction to Sculpture, Spring.
2014 Teaching Assistant [to Allen Zaruba], Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
Foundation Department: Sculptural Forms, Fall.
2014 Teaching Assistant [to Allen Zaruba], Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
Foundation Department: Sculptural Forms, Fall.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016-2019 Studio Technician; Department of Art and Design, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
2016-2015 Program Technical Assistant, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
2013-2012 Supervisor of the Fabrication Department, The Sculpture Foundation's Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, New Jersey.
2012-2011 Sculpture Technician, The Sculpture Foundation's Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, New Jersey.
FURTHER STUDIES + TRAINING
2020-2019 Independent Studies in Unani Medicine, Under Professor Shakir Jamil, Department of Moaljat, School of Unani Medicine and Research, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India.
2020-2019 Introductory Class: Hindi Conversation and Grammar, HindiGuru Language Institute, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi, India.
2011-2010 Structural Plate Welding Program, Hohokus School of Technical Trades and Services, Paterson, New Jersey.
CERTIFICATES
2016 College Art Teaching Certificate, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
2011 Structural Plate Welding Certificate, HoHoKus School of Trade and Technical Sciences, Paterson, New Jersey. Certified to American Welding Society standards of D1.1 SMAW of ½” carbon steel plate in all positions.
NON-ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010 Teaching Artist, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York City, New York.
2010 Summer Stop-Motion Camp Intern, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York City, New York.
EXHIBITION CATALOGS
2018 University of Mary Washington, Mid Atlantic New Painting 2018 Catalog, January.
2015 Alexine Rioux, Mika Agari, and Kayla Saito, In Place Show Catalog, July.
2010 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Wounded in Action Show Catalog, page 13.
PRESS + INTERVIEWS
2019 Public Relations Office, Aligarh Muslim University. Lecture on 'Arts, Medicine and Sculpture' held at Department of Pharmacology. 14 October: https://www.amu.ac.in/about3.jsp?did=3141
2019 Public Relations Office, Aligarh Muslim University. Benevenia delivers lecture in AMU. 10 October: https://www.amu.ac.in/about3.jsp?did=3157
2019 Jahan, Badar, Department of Fine Arts Newsletter, Aligarh Muslim University, Lecture cum Workshop, October 7
https://www.amu.ac.in/newdata/eventheld/11196.pdf
2019 Public Relations Office, Aligarh Muslim University. Michael Benevenia delivered an interactive lecture at department of museology. 5 October:
https://www.amu.ac.in/about3.jsp?did=3178
2019 Ansari, S & Narayan, Madhvendra & Kaadan, Abdul & Rahman, Syed. Newsletter of Ibn Sina Academy [Issue 74].
2018 Wilson, Ike. "In Focus: Artist Michael Benevenia." Edited by David Price and Terry Reimer. Surgeon's Call: Journal of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine 23, no. 2 [2018]: 5-6.
2018 Jasmine Pelaez, National Museum of Civil War Medicine welcomes first ‘artist in residence’ 20 September:
2016 Chip Schwartz, Artist interpretations and reactions at the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, 22 February:
http://knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2016/2/22/philadelphia-sculpture-gym-process-metal-iv/
2014 Ektaerina Popov, Fresh Paint Studio Visit: Michael Benevenia, Fresh Paint Magazine, April 22:
http://www.freshpaintmagazine.com/studio-visit/category/michael-benevenia
2011 Janet Purcell, Team Work: A Winning Team, The Trenton Times, July, page G3-08.
PUBLICATIONS
2018 Benevenia, Michael, Contributor. “ART NOW: Off the Wall.” Spartanburg Art Museum. 2018 May:
https://www.spartanburgartmuseum.org/artnowpodcast
2017 National Museum of Civil War Medicine Conference Notebook, Gravity and Other
Fistfights: An artist's response to the visual, surgical, and prosthetic legacy of the American Civil War, pages 3-15.
2014 Ektaerina Popov, Fresh Paint Magazine, Issue 3, April 20.
2014 Ingrid Reeve, North vs. South, Artist Portfolio Magazine, Issue 17, pages 66-9, February:
https://issuu.com/artistportfoliomagazine/docs/northvssouth/87?e=2382761/8424055
2014 Ingrid Reeve, Abstracts Art Exhibition, Artist Portfolio Magazine, Issue 16, page 61, April 24: http://issuu.com/artistportfoliomagazine/docs/sfvvchi
TALKS + PANELS + CONFERENCES
2020 Conference Presentation: Balancing Act: Unani, Jugaad, and Bamboo Ladders, South and Central Asia Fulbright International Conference, Kochi, India, February 24.
2019 Visiting Artist Lecture, Aligarh Muslim University, Department of Fine Arts, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. 7 October.
2019 Visiting Scholar Lecture; Art, Medicine, and Sculpture, Aligarh Muslim University, Department of Pharmacology, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh,
India. 5 October.
2019 Visiting Scholar Lecture; Contemporary Art in Non-Art Spaces: “Redressing the wound” Exhibition at The National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, Department of Museology, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. 4 October.
2019 41st Guest Scholar Lecture: Wounds, Ladders, and Mizaj: Finding Inspiration for Sculpture in Unani Medicine, Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Science, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 October.
2019 Artist Presentation, The Forum Community Outreach Program, Crofton, Maryland. 18 July.
2019 Gravity and other fistfights Gallery Talk, Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery, Coker College, Hartsville, South Carolina. 11 March.
2019 Visiting Artist Talk, Coker College, Hartsville, South Carolina. 11 March.
2019 Co-Curator Gallery Talk, BLOOM, [with Emily Bayless, Becky McDonah], Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania. 28 January.
2018 Artist-in-Residence Gallery Talk, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland. 11 November.
2018 Artist-in-Residence: Open House and Works in Progress, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland. 10 November.
2018 Artist-in-Residence: Artist Presentation, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland. 10 November.
2018 Artist-in-Residence Gallery Talk, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland. 26 October.
2018 Artist-in-Residence: Artist Presentation, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland. 19 September.
2018 Threshold Exhibiting Artist Gallery Talk [with Emily Bayless], Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania. 6 September.
2018 Off the Wall: Contemporary Sculpture Exhibiting Artist Gallery Talk, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, South Carolina. 17 May.
2017 Artist-in-Residence Open Studio Talk, Sculpture Space Inc., Utica, New York, 25 October.
2017 Conference Presentation: Gravity and Other Fistfights: An artist’s response to the visual, surgical, and prosthetic legacy of the American Civil War, National Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine, Clarion Conference Center Shepherdstown, West Virginia, 14 September.
2017 Relief Work Artist Presentation, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, Maryland, 30 March.
2016 Panelist: Fathers, Brothers, Sons Exhibition Panel Discussion, SPACECAMP, Baltimore, Maryland, 12 May.
2016 MFA Thesis Presentation, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, 27 April.
2016 Salon Artist Presenter, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, 12 February.
2014 Navigation Puzzle Exhibiting Artist Gallery Talk, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, Delaware, 11 July.
2014 Curator Gallery Talk: The Window, Academy Square Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey, 13 August
2014 Initium Novum Artist Gallery Talk, Dacia Gallery, New York City, New York, 16 January.
2013 Panelist: Ancestors, Guardians, and Guides Exhibition Panel Discussion, Charles Sumner School Museum, Washington, DC. 15 December.
WORKSHOPS + PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PRESENTATIONS
2020 Visiting Artist Presentation, Beyond Making: Strategies for Success: Professional Practices Class, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania. Invited by Heidi Leitzke, 14 April.
2019 Visiting Artist Workshop: The Exquisite Corpse as Found Object, Aligarh Muslim University, Department of Fine Arts, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh,
India. 7 October.
2019 Visiting Artist Presentation, Beyond Making: Strategies for Success: Professional Practices Class, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania. Invited by Heidi Leitzke, 6 February.
2018 Visiting Artist Presentation, Beyond Making: Strategies for Success: Professional Practices Class, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania. Invited by Heidi Leitzke, 5 February.
ACADEMIC AND COMMITTEE SERVICE
2019-2016 Gallery Committee Member, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
2015 Graduate Exhibitions Leadership Committee Member, MICA, Baltimore, Maryland.
2016-2014 Graduate Student Council Representative, MICA, Baltimore, Maryland.
2013-2012 Safety Committee Member, The Sculpture Foundation, Mercerville, New Jersey.
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2020 Curator; Cowboys and Carpenters, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
2019 Co-Curator [with Emily Bayless, Becky McDonah]; BLOOM, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
2014 Co-Curator [with Pam Cooper]; The Window, Academy Square Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey.
2014-2013 Curatorial Assistant Internship; Studio Montclair, Academy Square Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey.
2014 Gallery/Administrative Internship; City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, New Jersey.
PERFORMANCES
2015 Performer, Women’s Work, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. 26 March. [Participation in Maren Hassinger’s performance of her piece Women’s Work, in which she was assisted by her MFA student performers]
COLLECTIONS
2020 Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Science, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
2019 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland.