Guy Benfield

Biography

Born Sydney, Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 

• Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2007 

• X VOLTA, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
• Mother Door Spirit Level, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, New York

2005 

• Situation Rendered Obsolete Vera Cortes Art Agency, Lisbon, Portugal

2004 

• 4000 Years of God Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Go Punk on Their Heads Greene St Studios Residency NYC

2003

• Brazilian Wax Museum, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
• L.P.Werk, Head Painting, ULA, Block Projects, Sydney

2002

• Universal Love Action, 1st Floor Artist and Writers space, Melbourne

2001

• Ode To The Super Quick, Studio 12 @200 Gertrude St, Melbourne
• French Pup/Live Action, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
• French Pup/Live Action, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
• Hi Ace Van, Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007

• Monkey Town Semiennial, Monkey Town, Brooklyn New York, Curated by Montgomery Knott, Nick Hallett, Sam Zimmerman, Andrea Grover, and Christopher Borkowski, with Shoshana Brand and Don Carroll
• Full Nelson, BRIX Gallerie- Büro for post- modern communication, Berlin
• Aftermath: Performance as Installation/Installation as Performance, Artspace Sydney

2006

• Satellite, Project of the Shanghai Biennale,Shanghai China. Curated by Richard Thomas, Lise Li, Karen Hung and Sue Bing. EUROPAFFEKT, curated by Ursh, Atelierfrankfurt, Germany
• HIGHTIDE: currents in contemporary art from Australia and New Zealand, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 
• HIGH TIDE: currents in contemporary Australian art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuainia

2005

• Architecture As Something Transitory, Escola Maumaus, Alta Lisboa, Lisbon
• Terminal - Em Fractura, Collision of Territories, Curated by Paulo Mendes, Hanger K7 Municipality of Oeiras, Portugal
• Terminal- Em Fractura, Toxic, Curated by Paulo Mendes, Hanger K7 Municipality of Oeiras, Portugal
• ArtBrussels 2005 Galerie Frank Elbaz, Brussels Art Fair
• Snake Oil, Chartwell Acquisitions 2002-5, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
• Pitch Your Own Tent, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

2004

• NEWO4 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
• 2004: Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• The Anne Lands Award Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
• What is Your Apartment When Your Not There? Guest Room Video Works, Strabe 131, Berlin
• PCP: Post Contemporary Painting, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
• Fantasy Island, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, NZ
• I Thought I Knew But I was Wrong: New Video Art From Australia, Beijing
• Millennium Monument ( part of MAAP), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, Semazie Space, Seoul, Organized by ACMI & Asia Link

2002

• Vision, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney.
• The Fuckin Weird Show, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne.
• X Melbourne, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney

2001

• Melbourne Art Fair, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space stand, Melbourne
• Love Stories, 1st Floor Artists and writers Space, Melbourne
• We Don't Charge for Looking, Block, Sydney
• Only The Lonely, Block, Sydney

Selected Bibliography

• Jarrod Rawlings, 2004 Australian Culture Now, Flash Art International, 2004
• Kit Wise, New 04, Frieze Magazine, Summer issue, 2004Andrea TV, Brazilian Wax Museum, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space Catalogue essay 2003
• Thomas Deveral, French Pup / Live Action, C.C.P. catalogue Essay September 13 2001
• Daniel Palmer, Universal Love Action, Review ACCA Mag, australiacentreforcontemporaryart.com no1, 2002
• Andrew Frost, Guy Benfield, Hands Free Art, Australian Style No 52 June 2001
• Bridget Crone and Parekohai Whaakamoe, Hiace Van / Live Action, Like Art Magazine,No13 Summer 2001.
• Andrew Frost, ‘The House of Multiple Cream', Like Art Magazine No7 Summer 1998-99.
• Andrew Frost, ‘Undiscovered, Unmasked - Artists for the New Millennium', Australian Art Collector No8 1999.
• Aerhost, An Australian Survey', Circa Art Magazine, No78 1997
• Natalie King, ‘Décor', rt and Australia Magazine, volume 33, No2, summer 1995
• R. Thomas, C. Hardey and Mungo, ‘Auto-portraits' ArtFan, 1995.
• S. Rigney, ‘Guy Benfield & Craig Wise' Agenda Contemporary Art Magzine, Sept - Oct, 1992.
• R.Traviato, ‘T.A.B.', Agenda Contemporary Art Magazine, Oct 1990
• C.Heathcote, ‘Mind-gym', The Age, 7 August, 1991
• ‘Monumental Drawing', Adelaide Centre for Contemporary Art Exhibition Catalogue 198

Awards and Prizes

2006

• New Work Project Grant,Australia Council for the Arts

2005

• Student/Artist In Residence (non degree program) Maumaus School of Visual Arts, Lisbon Portugal
• Anne & Gordon International Visual Arts Scholarship.

2004

• Australia Council for the Arts, LIC Residency New York City

2001 

• Arts Victoria, New Work Presentation Grant