Jason Benjamin

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Jason Benjamin
Nationality	Australian
Field	Painting
Training	Pratt Institute
Awards	Packing Room Prize 2005 Staring down the past Mosman Art Prize 1993, 1994 and 1996

Jason Benjamin (born 1971 in Melbourne) 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 Packing Room Prize at the Archibald Prize with a painting of actor Bill Hunter titled Staring down the past. 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 and 2013.

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.

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Name	Benjamin, Jason
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Short description	Australian painter
Date of birth	1971
Place of birth	Melbourne
Date of death
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