Barton Lidice BENES
1942, USA
Barton Lidice BENES Biography
1942 Born in Westwood, NJ
1960 - 1961 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1988 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Resides and works in New York City
Exhibitions
2004 New Works by Barton Lidice Benes, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND. (solo)
2004 Corporal Identity–Body Language, Museum of Arts and Design,
New York
2003 Food Matters: Explorations in Contemporary Art, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2003 Triennial 9 Form and Contents: Corporal Identity, The American Craft Museum,
2003 Barton Benes: Curiosa, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2002 - 2003 Show Me the Money, the Dollar as Art, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida. Traveled to Palm Springs Desert Museum, American Numismatic Association, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Boston Federal Reserve.
2002 Barton Lidice Benes: Curiosa, Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York (solo)
2002 Barton Lidice Benes: Souvenirs, Galleri Stefan Anderson, Umeå, Sweden (solo)
2001 Art at the Edge of the Law, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2001 Extra Art: A Survey of Arists’ Ephemera, 1960-1999, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
2000 - 2001 Reliquaries, Borås, Sweden, Borås Konstmuseum. Traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden; and Museokeskus Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland (solo)
1999 - 2000 Reliquarium, Galeria 111, Porto, Portugal. Traveled to Galeria 111, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1999 Barton Benes: Reliquaries, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (solo)
1998 Spirited Away, A Space, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1998 The Estate Project, Artists Living with HIV/AIDS web site presented at the Museum of Modern Art, World AIDS Day, The Virtual Collection
1997 Lethal Weapons, Coke Gallery, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico (solo)
1994 Money Madness, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND (solo)
Literature
2002 Abrams, Curiosa: Celebrity Relics, Historical Fossils, and Other Metamorphic Rubbish, Barton Lidice Benes, introduction by John Berendt
1999 POZ Magazine, The Passion of Barton Benes, David Groff