About the artist:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS SOMERSET HOUSE. London. ‘Night Paintings’. Curated by Flora Fairbairn. 2012. CHELSEA ARTS CLUB. London. 2010. GALLERY S. BENNEY, South Kensington. London. 2007. THE MALL GALLERIES. London. ‘Retrospective of 20 years work: Just Looking’. 2001. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London. ‘State Portrait for Israel: Group Portrait with Associated Sketches’. 1995. LONG AND RYLE. London. 1995. BIRCH CONRAN GALLERY. London. 1994 NIGEL GREENWOOD GALLERY. London. 1992. THE ALPHA GALLERY. Boston, MA. Two person exhibition. 1990. REBECCA HOSSACK GALLERY. London. ‘The Jousting Meadow’. 1989. GALLERIA BERINI. Barcelona. ‘Heretic Healers’ 1989. P.P.O.W. GALLERY N.Y 1989. P.P.O.W. GALLERY N.Y. 1987. P.P.O.W. GALLERY N.Y. 1986. P.P.O.W. GALLERY N.Y. 1985. P.P.O.W. GALLERY N.Y. 1984. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS VIKTOR WYND FINE ART INC. ‘The Bones of my Hand’. Curated by Viktor Wynd. 2012. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London. ‘BP Portrait Awards’. 2010. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London. ‘BP Portrait Awards’. 2008. CHRISTIE’S Exhibition & Auction. London. ‘Baby 2000’. Curated by Kay Saatchi. 2000. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London. ‘BP Portrait Awards’. 2000 (Winner Public Choice Award). NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London. ‘BP Portrait Awards’. 1999 (Finalist & Winner Public Choice Award). SIX CHAPEL ROW GALLERY. Bath, England. ‘The Face of Contemporary Art’. 1998. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London. ‘BP Portrait Awards’. 1997 (Finalist). NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London. ‘BP Portrait Awards’. 1996. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London. ‘BP Portrait Awards’. 1995. BIRCH CONRAN GALLERY. London. 1995. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London. ‘BP Portrait Awards’. 1994. THE ROYAL MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY. Canterbury, England. ‘Heads’. 1993. LAMONT GALLERY. London. ‘Flowers’. 1993. NIGEL GREENWOOD GALLERY. London. ‘Works on Paper’. 1991. TIBOR DE NAGY. N.Y. ‘Persistence of Vision’. 1990. LJUBLJANA MUSEUM. Yugoslavia. ‘Women of the Press’. 1989. PUTTER PENSE GALLERY. Los Angeles, CA.1988. MUSEUM OF ART, RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN. Providence RI. ‘New Vision of the Apocalypse’. 1988. FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. N.Y. ‘Porcelain: Past Forms/Present Tense’. 1988. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. N.Y. 20TH Century Wing. ‘British Painters’. 1988. TUNNEL. N.Y. ‘Art Against Aids’. 1987. SABBATH ART GALLERY. Wunsch Art’s Centre. N.Y. ‘Twenty Under Thirty’. 1987. ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ. ‘Prints/Commission/Grant’. 1987. URBAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS. Grand Rapids, MI. Three Person Exhibition. 1987. GRACIE MANSION GALLERY. N.Y. ‘Art Against Aids’. 1987. ARTES MAGNUS Porcelain Project. Limoges, France. 1987. WILLIAMS CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Lafayette College. Easton PA. ‘Art of the East Village’. 1986. HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART. Milwaukee, WI. ‘Romanticism and Cynicism in Contemporary Art’. 1986. MORRIS CENTER. Easton, PA. ‘Art of the East Village’. 1986. P.P.O.W. N.Y. Group Exhibition. 1986. INTERNATIONALE KUNSTMESSSE. Zurich, Germany. ‘Forum’. 1986. E.M DONOHUE GALLERY. N.Y. ‘Red TAPE Show’. 1986. GREATHOUSE GALLERY. N.Y. ‘Myths’. 1986. MORI GALLERY. Sydney, Australia. ‘Survey of East Village Art’. 1985. HOLLY SOLOMON GALLERY. N.Y. ‘57th Street between A and D’. 1985. UDSTILLINGSBYGNINGEN. Copenhagen. ‘A Brave New World – A New Generation’. Curated by Thomas Solomon. 1985. KAMIKAZE CLUB. N. Y. ‘Recommendations’. Curated by Holly Solomon. 1985. CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART. Seattle, WA. ‘New York – Seattle’. 1985. 55 MERCER STREET. N.Y. ‘Smart Art’. Curated by Joseph Masheck. 1985. PICCADILLY GALLERY. ‘Out of Context’. 1985. SADIE BROFFMAN CENTER. Montreal, Canada. ‘East Village at the Centre’. Curated by Katya Arnold. 1985. VORPOL Gallery. San Francisco, CA. ‘New York/New Art’. 1985. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. Cantanzaro, Italy. ‘East Village Situation 85’. 1985. ANDRE ZARRE Gallery. N.Y. Group Exhibition. 1985. BLUM ART INSTITUTE. N.Y. ‘Out of the Ooo Cloud’. 1985. B SIDE GALLERY. N.Y. ‘Hard Cold Facts’. 1985. GRACIE MANSION GALLERY. N.Y. Group Exhibition. 1985. GALERIE ANDRE EMMERICH. Zurich. ‘Inside the East Village’1984. INSTITUTE FOR ART AND URBAN RESOURCES (P.S.1) Long Island City, N.Y. ‘The New Portrait’. Curated by Jeffrey Deitch.1984. UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM SANTA BARBARA. Santa Barbara. ‘Neo York’. 1984. ARTISTS SPACE. N.Y. ‘New Galleries of the Lower East Side’. Curated by Helen Weiner. 1984. P.S.1. LONG ISLAND. N.Y. ‘Limbo’. Curated by Carlo McCormick and Walter Robinson. 1984. NEW MATH GALLERY. N.Y. ‘Romanticism’. Curated by Regina Trapp. 1984. P.P.O.W. N.Y. ‘Indigestion’. 1984. ZELLERMEYER GALLERY. Berlin. ‘East Village Exhibition’. 1984. EAST 7TH STREET GALLERY. N.Y. ‘Twilight Zone’. 1984. LIMBO LOUNGE. N.Y. ‘Collaboration’. 1984. P.P.O.W. N.Y. 1983. PUCK BUILDING. N.Y. ‘British Art New Directions’. Curated by Graham Hughes 1983. PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 20th Century Wing. N.Y, USA. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. London, UK. NATIONAL GALLERY. CANBERRA, Australia. WORLD BANK. Washington DC, US. HOUSE OF CONGRESS. Washington DC, USA. HOUSE OF LORDS. UK. HOUSE OF COMMONS. UK. ELI BROAD FOUNDATION. Los Angeles, USA. FIRST BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS. USA. ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION. UK. Isreal. W.H. SMITH COLLECTION. UK. ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND. UK. ABBEY NATIONAL. UK. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. Catanzaro, Italy. VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY. USA. BARCLAYS WEALTH. UK. ST JAMES CAPITAL. UK. BARINGS BANK. UK. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. UK. ZIMMERLI MUSEUM OF ART. New Jersey, USA. CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY. UK. BRITISH AIRPORTS AUTHORITY. UK. HAMBRO’S BANK. UK. JESUS COLLEGE. Oxford, UK. SUPREME COURT. Boston, USA. SUPREME COURT. Jerusalem. Israel AIG HUSTON. USA. EALING STUDIOS. UK. STANDARD LIFE. UK. BP. UK. CHRIST COLLEGE. Oxford, UK. Bibliography ALAHADEFF, GINI ‘Neo Galleristi. L’Uomo Vogue, December 1984 p.156. BARKER, RAFAELLA ‘New Faces, the Next Decade’. Harpers and Queen Q.C. 1989 p.28. BECKER, ROBERT ‘Untitled’. Interview Magazine, May 1988 p.21. BENNEY, PAUL ‘Benney & The Jets’. Finch’s Quarterly Review, April 2012. BENNEY, PAUL ‘The Jousting Meadow.’ Forward, 1989. and SASSE, DOMINIC BRENSON, MICHAEL ‘Review’. New York Times, May 2 1986. BREYEN, MOGENS ‘A Brave New World: A New Generation – 40 New York Artists’. Udstillingsbygning Ved Charlottenborg Exhibition Catalogue, October 1985 p.23. BURKEMAN, OLIVER ‘Painting Jerry Hall’. The Guardian, May 12 2000 p.4. CAMBELL-JOHNSON, RACHEL ‘The Very Picture Of You’. The Times, December 11 2007 p.12. ‘Your Face on the Stairs. The New Portraitists’. The Times, November 2 2010 p.14. CAMPBELL, KATIE ‘You’ve Been Framed’. The Evening Standard Magazine, January 14 2000 p.15. CAMERON, DAN ‘Article’. Arts Magazine, May 1987. ‘The Submerging Figure’. Arts Magazine, Vol.60 No.1 September 1987 p.68-71. CARTER, RAYMOND ‘Untitled’. Catalogue Essay for Romanticism and Cynicism 1986. CLERK, HONOR ‘Just Looking’. Paul Benney Catalogue 2001. CONRAD, PETER ‘Do You Think They Got My Best Side?’ The Observer, April 27 2008. COTTER, HOLLAND ‘Paul Benney Paintings 1983-1986’. P.P.O.W Gallery, 1986. ‘Review’. Arts Magazine, May 1986 Vol. 60, No 9. p.46. ‘Review’. New York Times, May 2 1986 p.C32. COWLEY, JASON ‘A Portrait of Our Time’. The Times Weekend Section, November 24 2001 p.1. DEMPSTER, NIGEL ‘Jagger Makes it Official’. The Daily Mail, November 29 2001. p.47. DICK, LESLEY ‘Knife Story’. Bomb Magazine, No. 8 1984 p.77. DONG, STELLA ‘East Village Art’. Art & Auction, November 1985 p.118. DONN, ALLEGRA ‘Portraits of London Characters’. L’Uomo Vogue, No. 264 October 1995 p.196. GAYFORD, MARTIN ‘Freudian Tendency’. The Telegraph. Jun 30, 1999. GIMSON, ANDREW ‘Portrait of IDS’. The Daily Telegraph. May 25 2005 p.4. HASTINGS, CHRIS ‘Portrait of Power on the Wane.’ The Sunday Telegraph, April 15 2007. HOWGATE, SARAH ‘The Portrait Now’. National Portrait Gallery, 2006. and SANDY NAIRNE JOHNSON. 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The Spectator, October 2010. WOOLMER, SUSANNAH ‘Second Guessing History: New Portraiture and the Parliamentary Art Collection’. Apollo, v161 May 2005 p.69-71. ZINSSER, JOHN ‘Paul Benney at P.P.O.W’. East Village Eye, May 1985 p.43. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY ‘500 Portraits’. National Portrait Gallery 2011. ‘BP Award Book’. National Portrait Gallery 2002. THE GUARDIAN ‘Higher Browsing: The Third Degree’. September 25 2001 p.B11. THE IRISH TIMES ‘Making Faces’. May 13 2000 p.B23. THE SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS & PLEASURE MAGAZINE ‘Picture Perfect’. July 2001. THE NEW WRITER MAGAZINE ‘Cover’. July/August 2000. THE EVENING STANDARD MAGAZINE ‘Little Black Book’. April 14 2000. THE NEW WRITER MAGAZINE. ‘Cover’. April 1997. ARTS REVIEW ‘Ready for my Close Up’. December/January 1995 p.18. PAUL BENNEY PAINTINGS Manta Press and Forward Publishing. 1994-1995. NEWBURY WEEKLY NEWS ‘Group Portrait to Hang in Jerusalem’. August 12 1994. NEW YORK TIMES. ‘Artists Give Modern Cast to Limoges & Sevres’. 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