John Benton received his BFA from Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a member of First Street Gallery in New York.
Benton has been included in a number of museum shows including the Butler Institute of American Art, the Artist Choice Museum, the Hoyt Art Center and the Taubman Museum of Art and recently had his first solo museum exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Art, a Smithsonian Affiliate in Springfield, Ohio. He has been invited to participate in over fifty group exhibitions including Bowery, Blue Mountain and Prince Street Gallery in New York as well as various venues in the East and Midwest. He was invited to participate in the “In, On, Of Paper” a Zeuxis Paint Group invitational exhibition at “There” Gallery in New York as well as participate in their “Artists Conversations” series. John also had the privilege of being included in a panel discussion at Landmark Gallery titled “Four Generations of Figurative Painters: Alice Neel, Larry Day, George Hildrew and John Benton”. His paintings have been recognized with a number of awards and he has been featured in magazines, newspapers and a number of periodicals. His work is can be found in both public and private collections.
John Benton is primarily a landscape painter working both on site as well as in the studio. Particularly the unassuming landscapes anonymously found just about anywhere. He currently lives in Chicago but often paints the sites of where he grew up in Ohio.
