EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts Claremont Graduate University, California 1986-88
Scholarship Kunstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden 1983-4
Bachelor of Arts University of Hawai’i, Mānoa (Art+Ethnology Major) 1980-82
Instituto de Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1979 Scholarship Chouinard Institute of Art, Los Angeles, California 1975-76
SOLO+2 PERSON EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 "Aesthetics of Precarity" with Enrique Leal. Print Media Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
2022 “ Rhine River Requiem ”, Galerie Pluto, Bonn, Germany. Curator: Jane Brucker
2018 “Whales and Worms”, Galerie Chaos, Czech Republic
2017 “Mni Wiconi/Water is Life”, Kapli sv. Jana Křtitele, Prague, Czech Republic.
Curator: Karel Zavadil
2016 “SeaWeeds”, Panel Gallery, (FAMU) Prague, Czech Republic 2015
• ”How right they are to adore you!’: The Song of Songs Interpreted through Fine Printing”,
w/Robin Price, Printer/Publisher. Arts Library Special Collections, Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Curator: Jae Rossman
• “Barbara Benish: Umělec jako aktivista”. Galerie Makráč, Makrokoule, Ústav
makromolekulární chemie AV ČR, Czech Republic. Kurátor: Karel Zavadil
2011 “Ubiquity”, O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Downtown. Houston, Texas, USA.
Curator: Mark Cervenka (catalogue)
• “Bruno”, the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Curator: Michael Stanley-Jones
2010 "Sky Diaries+Black Box", fabs gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Curator: Goska Sidor
2009
• "Oh Belgrade", U.S. Ambassador’s Residency, Belgrade, Serbia. Curator: Marilyn Wyatt
• "Misc.: Out of the Attic", POST Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Curator: HK Zamani
• "Sky Diaries", University Gallery, Plzen, Czech Republic
• "The Giving Tree" Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
2008 “Picasso is Female”, Galerie Navratil, Prague, Czech Republic
2006 "Bread and a Millstone", Academy of Applied Art, Architecture and Design, Prague, CZ
• "The Miller's Wife", fabs Gallery, Lodz, Poland. Curator: Goska Sidor (catalogue)
• "Footsteps", the Shed, Newport Beach, California. Curator: Jeannie denHolm
2004 "The Miller's Wife", Muzeum Horažd'ovice, Czech Republic
2003 “The Bride in the Enclosed Garden” and other installations. City Gallery-Plzen, CZ.
Organized by Vera Knetlová and Vacláv Malína. (catalogue)
2002 “Stone Sky”, Stelle Cadenti, Bassano in Teverino, Italy. Curator: Mirella Bentivoglio
2000 "Barbara Benish: Hybrid Histories". Pomona College Art Museum, Claremont University,
California. Curator: Rebecca McGrew (catalogue)
1999 "Sand Castles”, installation, Huntington Beach Art Center, California.
Curator: Maggie Owens. (catalogue)
1998 “Toy Boats in the Garden”, installation w/C. Patterson. Center for Metamedia,
Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic
1997 “1-12-3-8-9-13-9-1” (B.Benish & M.Titlová ). Plečník Gallery, Prague Castle, CZ.
Curator: Jana Tícha. (catalogue)
1995 "Water Enough for One Root". Mánes Gallery, Prague, CZ. Curator: Vlasta Čiháková-
Noshiro. (catalogue)
1995 "The Book of Revelation". Artworks, Los Angeles, California. Printer/Publisher: Robin Price
1994 "Apokalypsa". Galerie u Bilého Jednorozce, Klenova Castle, CZ. Curator:
Helena Hrdličková. (catalogue)
1992
• "furor melancholicus", Stadtgeschichtliche Museen Nürnberg, (Dürer Haus), Germany,
Curator: Dr. Matthias Mende. (catalogue)
• "Encuentro", Sculptural Installations, Prášna Brána, City of Prague Gallery, CZ.
Curator: Zdenka Gabalová.(catalogue)
• "Nude Devices/Divested Encounters", Otis/Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles.
Curator: Anne Ayers. (catalogue)
1989 "Bohemian Elegy" Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1984 "Barbara Benish: Olja-Akvarell", Galleri DocentDuk, Stockholm, Sweden
1982 "5 Textiles/5 Paintings" (thesis exhibit) Commons Gallery, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 “Above and Below”, Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, CA. curated w/ Michele Cairella Fillmore
2023 “Above and Below”, AltaSea, Port of Los Angeles, Curated by Kim Abeles.
“Blue”, 515 gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
“Little John”, Pragovka Gallery, Prague, CZ. video
“Black Box”, Gallery of Spis Artists, Košice, Slovakia (catalogue)
2022 “Eco-Art work: 11 Artists from 8 Countries”, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, California
2021 “Sowing Seeds” (video w/Enrique Leal), Prague Biennale, Prague, CZ
2019
• “Dialog, 30 Let”, DOX Museum for Contemporary Art/ ArtArchives, Prague, CZ
• “ArteDuco”, Depo2015, Plzen, CZ (catalogue)
2018
• “Seeds” Symposium, HayBarn, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Curator/Organizers: Beth Stevens & Annie Sprinkles
• “Mothers, Eggshells, and the People Who Birth Us”, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles.
Curator: Kim Abeles
2017 “I’m/MIGRATION”, ArtMill Barn Gallery, Czech Republic
2015 “Zakra!”, Kravin Rural Arts, Hranice u Malce, Czech Republic, 18 June. Curator:
Lenka Dolánová
2013 “Bubec Vraci Uder” Sochařé studio Bubec, Praha, Czech Republic
• Staromestka radnice Praha, City Hall Gallery, Prague. Curator: Karel Matouš Zavadil
2012
• “Mapping”, Givatayim City Gallery, Israel. Curator: Doron Polak
• “Dar – Husák trávu nekouř”. Moravská galerie v Brně, Czech Republic, 22/6 – 28/10
2011 “Mapping”, Markers 8, Art Life for the World, Venice, Italy. Curator: Doron Polak
2010
• “What Will Be”, Universidad Technologica, Cancun, Mexico. Curators: E. Haring- Woods,
B. Benish (catalogue)
• "Substantialis Corpus Mixti", the Czech Center, Bohemian National Hall, New York City.
Curator: Mark Cervenka (catalogue)
2009 “Language Arts: Images, Words, and Stories Selected From the Permanent
Collection”,Sweet Briar College, Virginia, USA
2008
• "Escape“, Galerie Califia, Horazd'ovice, Czech Republic
• "Art of Thought“, with Kim Abeles. City of Brea Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2007
• “It Depends on Bigness“, Moving Station, Nádraží Plzen, Plzen, CZ. Curators: Hana
Kršňáková a Štěpánka Bláhovcová.
• “X + X”, Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf-Fronberg, Germany. Curators: Václav Malina
and Heiner Riepl (catalogue)
• “Here You Only Lie Once“, fabs, Warsaw, Poland. Curator: Goska Sidor
2006
• "Horizons" Communication Space Skolská gallery, Prague; Galerie Nová Sín, Prague;
Academy of Visual Art and Architecture Gallery, Brno. CZ. Curator: Miloš Vojtechovský
(catalogue)
• NOVA ART FAIR, New Context Gallery, Chicago, USA
• "Shifted Focus", the Czech Center, New York City, New York; the Czech Embassy,
Washington D.C. Curator: Anika Erdosi
2005 S.C.O.P.E. Art Fair, New York City, USA
• "the Holiday Show", New Context Gallery, Chicago, USA
• "psychonauti", Skolska Gallery, Prague. Curator: Dana Recmanová
2004 "Certain Traces, Dialogue: Los Angeles/Prague, 2004", Barnsdall Munincipal Art
Gallery, L.A.; (6 locations total) traveled to Kotlarna, Karlin-Prague, CZ.
(catalogue)
“Art Safari 7”, Bubec sculpture studios, Prague
2003
• “Wandering Library”, International Artists’ Museum. Jewish Museum, Venice, Italy
(traveled to Israel and Lodz, Poland) (catalogue) Curator: Doran Polak
• “On This Side of the Sky: UNESCO Salutes Women in Art”, U.N.E.S.C.O. Headquarters,
Paris. (catalogue) Curator: Hans d’Orville
• “The 8th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition”, University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawai’i. Curator: Tom Klobe (catalogue)
2002
• “Markers II”, EAM Building. Kassel, Germany. Curator: Doran Polak (catalogue)
• “Irrational Propositions”, POST Gallery, Los Angeles. Curator: Habib Kheradyar
2001 “Markers”, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. (traveled to Tel Aviv; Berlin) (catalogue)
2001 “Night of the Falling Stars”, Bassano in Teverino, Italy. Curators: Mario Palmieri/ Nicolleta Crocella
2000 "Konec Svet"/“End of the World”, National Museum, Kinsky Palace, Prague (catalogue) Curator: Milan Knižak
1999 “Globalization”, installation: “List-o-pad”, Mánes Galerie, Prague (publication). Curator: Vlasta Cihaková-Noshiro
1998. “Signed Contract”, installation: “Faust’s Hole”, The Faust House, Prague.Curator: Jana Ticha 1997
• “Public Art”, Center for Modern & Contemporary Art, Veletrž. pal.c/National Gallery, Prague (catalogue) Curator: Ludvík Hlaváček
• “Dawn of the Magicians/Jitro kouzelníku?” Center for Modern & Contemporary Art,
Veletržní Palác, Prague. Curators: Miloš Voytechovsky and J. Anděl •
„Apocalypse“, La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• “Felicities”, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles. Curator: Phyllis Green
• “Printer & Artist”, (Book of Revelations, Robin Price printer/Publ.) Rocket Contemporary Art, London 1994
• “Site-ations”, The Artists’ Museum, Cardiff, Wales, Great Britain
• “Ventilation” Project Ateliér Toit-du-Monde, Vevey, Switzerland (publication). Curator: Sigusmund deVajay 1993
• “Sleepless Nights”, P.S. 1 Museum, New York. Curator: Zdenka Gabalová
• “Construction in Process”, Artist’s Museum, Lodz, Poland. Curator: Ryzard Wasko
• “Objects: 16 Los Angeles Sculptors”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California. Curator: Jay Belloli (catalogue).
1992 “Breaking Barriers”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA.
1991 “World News”, Beyond Baroque, Venice; Muckenthaler Gallery Fullerton; Onyx Cafe, Los
Angeles, California (publication & curated by Kim Abeles) 1990
• “Lunada Bay” installation, Angel’s Gate Gallery, San Pedro, California
• “Dialogue:Prague/LosAngeles”, Arroyo Arts Collective, Highland Park, CA. Curators: Z.Gabalová/B.Benish
1989 “Dialogue:Prague/Los Angeles”, Lidovy Dum Galerie; Galerie Mladych, Prague. Curators: Z. Gabalová/B.Benish (catalogue)
1987 “V.E.X.”, White Room, University of California, Los Angeles. Curator: Karl Matson
1984 “Checkpoint Charlie, wearable art performance, Club Lingerie, Hollywood, California. Curator: Carol Booten
1983 "Flying Venus", the Royal Academy of Art/KunstAkademien, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
PUBLIC ART/ INTERVENTIONS/PERFORMANCES
2024 “Strawberry Jam (for Helen Mayer Harrison)”, La Jolla Historical Society, CA. curated by Tatiana
Sizonenko. Part of the Harrison’s retrospective, Pacific Standard Time, Getty Museum. 2023
“Sonic Gardens #3: Rivers and Mists: S.O.S.”, Zamek Troja (Castle), Prague, Czech Republic
sound installation with Anna Friz. Curator: Miloš Vojtechovský
2022 “Hunger Stones”, performance on the River Vltava, Prague. Re-Connect Art Festival, Prague Biennale Foundation
2010-2020 "S.S. Palo Alto Project", Seacliff State Park, Monterey, California
2019 “Two Swans” wall mural performed during hunting season, Bohemia, ArtMill, CZ
2018 “Whale & the Worm” (w/Nathalie Blanc), ArtMill, CZ
• “Rockin’ Horse”, town square, Horažd’ovice, Czech Republic2013-15 “Flow Garden”, installation
at the Audubon Center, Dallas, Texas. MakeArtWithPurpose
curated by Janeil Engelstad
2012 “Plastic Parade: to the Streets!”, Ipanema Beach, United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change/ Earth Summit, June 20-22. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• “Tower/Vež”, at Museum Kampa, Prague (riverbank public park)
• “Rockin' Horse” plastic pollution installation, Respect Festival, Prague
2011 “Map & Sip”, street intervention during the Venice Biennale, June 1-3. Venezia, Italy
2005 "Egg" (1995), permanent sculpture installation at Chapman College, Orange, Ca. USA
2000 “Flower Power “ outdoor billboards on embankment of Prague’s Vltava River "ArtWall"
(established as a permanent public art space in Prague: ArtWall.cz)
1992-5 “Vitr se Zveda” (The Wind Rises), Dačice Castle, Czech Republic
1992 “The Tree of the Middle Place”, Boathouse mural, Echo Park, Los Angeles (Social Public
Art Resource Center commission)
1982 “Ahupua’a”, mural assistant, University of Hawaii Campus Center, Honolulu. Designed by
Calle O’Neill
CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA
2024. “Future Gardens as Eco-Cultural Collaborations”, panel moderated by Chris Fremantle and
Anne Douglas. Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, CA.
2020 “The Community Gardens of Barbara Benish”, Inspiration Forum, Jihlava Film Festival, Czech Republic
2019
• United Nations Climate Action Summit, New York Headquarters, USA
• Her Story, Disorderly Women-Alliance of Women Leaders in Culture, Barcelona, Spain
2014 Culture(s) of Sustainable Futures, final conference of the COST action IS 1007, Helsinki, Finland
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Lima, Peru. Co-Chair UN
Education Caucus (in absentia)
2013 UNESCO International Congress: “Culture, the Key to Sustainable Development”, Hangzhou, China, 15-17 May
• 7th World Environmental Education Congress, Marrakech, Morocco
• COST Action Group, Investigating Cultural Sustainability, IS1007, Skopje, Macedonia
2012 Rio+20, United Nations Climate Change Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
• S.S. Palo Alto Roundtable II, Social Practice Arts Research Center, UC Santa Cruz,
• Na Jine Puda/On Different Soil: Growth in Art, Society and Culture, Nova Scene, Prague, Czech Republic
• UN Safe Planet Campaign Strategic Planning and Education meeting, Ojai, California
• Transformative Educational Forum, Naval PostGraduate School, Monterey, California
• 1st Annual S.S. Palo Alto Roundtable, Social Public Art Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz. Eco- ArtPark in the Monterey Bay
• Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Fifth Meeting. United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. 25-29 April 2010
• 5th International Marine Debris Conference, NOAA/UNEP, Honolulu, Hawai'i. 21-25 March
• Strategic Workshop for the Development of a Public Awareness and Outreach Strategy and Business Plan under the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, Safe Planet
Campaign. Centre de formation du Leman, Jongny, Switzerland, 27-29 June
• UN Safe Planet Strategic Planning Retreat, ArtMill, Horazdovice, Czech Republic
2006 Symposium on Czech and U.S. Art Education, Školska Gallery, Prague 2005
“Creating Dialogue”Museum Kampa, Prague; CIEE University, Prague, C.R.
2001 “Bearing Witness”, at “ready to...” International Symposium on Network/Art/Society. National
Gallery, Prague.Organized by the Internationales Kunstler Gremium, Koln
1993 “Transformational Powers of Graffiti Art” panel, Occidental College, Highland Park,
Ca. 1990 “Dialogue Symposium”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
1989 “DialoguePrague/Los Angeles” Symposium. Gong Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
2024 “Strawberry Jam, on Helen Mayer Harrison and eco-feminism”, La Jolla Historical Society,
CA. as part of Pacific Standard Time, Getty Museum
“Future Gardens as Eco-Cultural Collaborations”, panel discussion, Mandeville Art Gallery,
UC San Diego, CA. as part of Pacific Standard Time, Getty Museum
2023 “Art and Food”, University of California, Santa Cruz, with Professor J.M. Barreto
2021
• “In the Nature of Materials”, Barbara Benish in conversation with Claudia Benz, Curator
at Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Organized by Galerie Pluto and Hochschule Trier, Germany.
• “Community Garden: the inner world of Barbara Benish”, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, CZ.
2019 Art + Ecology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA 2017
• “Form, Art, and the Environment”, University of California, Santa Cruz, w/co-author Dr.
Nathalie Blanc. Cowell HayBarn at the Farm
• “Form, Art, and the Environment”, w/Nathalie Blanc. New York City Parks Dept., The Armory, Central Park,
2016 “Form, Art, and the Environment”, w/Nathalie Blanc. Book launch/lecture, Veletržni Palac, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 “From Revelations to Songs” (with Robin Price, Printer/Publisher), Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2015 “ArtMill as Case Study”, Culture(s) of Sustainable Futures, final conference of the COST Action IS1007, Helsinki, Finland
2014 “An Aesthetic Sea: Visualizing Change & the SS Palo Alto Project”, Digital Arts, New Media Dept., University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
2012 “Transformative Education, Creativity, and Sustainable Development” Film Shorts Festival Panel Discussion, Instituto de Biofisica, Universidad de Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Rio+20 side event.
June 21 2011
• “Safe Planet Campaign Arts and Outreach”, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
• “Art and Social Change”, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
• “Art and Social Change”, KIPP School, Houston, Texas, USA
• “Environment & Art”, University of Houston, Texas
• “Dialogue: 21 years of US-Czech Cultural Exchange”, U.S. Embassy, Prague
• “The Architecture of Plastic Pollution”, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu
2010 “What Will Be”Curator's/Artist Talk, Universidad Technologico, Cancun, Mexico 2009
• "On Trees and Other Things Fallen", University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
• "On Drawing" lecture + workshop, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California
• "Artist Lecture", Academy of Art, Belgrade, Serbia
• "On Installation", Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia; Art Workshop at U.S.
Ambassador's Residence, Belgrade, Serbia 2007
• “on non-hierarchal exhibition practices”, U.C. Santa Cruz, California
• Artist Lecture, Cal State Long Beach University, California
• “Graphic Work”, Scripps College, Claremont Colleges, California 2004
• "Dialogue Praha/Los Angeles, 15 Years Later", Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design,
Prague (VSUP/UMPRUM), Prague, CZ
• "Creating Dialogue", Consulate of the Czech Republic, Los Angeles
• “Creating Dialogue”, Caifornia State University, Northridge, California, USA
2000 "Gallery Talk", Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont University, California
1999 "Artist Lecture", California State University Northridge, Northridge, California 1998
• “Art Trends in Central Europe since the fall of Communism”, the Center for Slavic and East
European Studies, University of California, Berkeley
• “Working Processes”, Art Department, University of California, Riverside
• “Artist Lecture”, Center for the Arts/Art, Claremont University, California 1995
• "Artist Lecture", Otis School of Art, Los Angeles; Graduate Seminar
• "Artist Lecture", Art Center College of Design, Pasadena;
• "Artist Lecture", Art Department, University of California at Riverside
• “Californian Art”, American Center for Culture and Commerce, Prague The Academy of Applied Arts/ Prague
1994 “Art from the American West Coast” North Bohemian Museum, Liberec, Cz.
• Artist Lecture UMPRUM, (Academy of Applied Arts), Prague, Czech Republic
1993 Artist Lecture, 16 L.A. Sculptors, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, Ca.USA
1992 “A Furious Melancholy: the Engravings of Albrecht Durer”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
1991 Artist lecture, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1990 “Dialogue:Prague/Los Angeles”, University of Southern California;
Barnsdall Art Park Theatre;
Art Center College of Design;
University of Santa Barbara, California
1988 Artist Lecture, Mt. San Antonio College, California, USA
• “Art and Revolution”, U.S. Embassy, Prague
• Artist Lecture, Idyllwild School for Music and the Arts, Idyllwild, California
1987 “Images of Women in the Work of Edvard Munch”, Institute of Antiquities and
Christianity, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
1984 Artist Lecture, Rotary Club International, Stockholm, Sweden
PUBLICATIONS
2025. “ArtMill: a case study in Sustainable Creativity”, New Village Press, New York (English).
ArtMap, Prague (Czech)
2024 “Food for our Future” (paperback), Benish/Blanc (Routledge)
“Passages, on Geo-Analysis and the Aesthetics of Precarity”, Sam Okoth Opondo and Michael J.
Shapiro. Collaborative artworks with authors and Enrique Leal. Manchester University Press. 2023
“Roundtable” The Nature of the Cities, Chris Fremantle & Anne Douglas, Eds.
“Tribute to the Harrisons”, Leonardo, M.I.T. press. (vol 56, no.3, June edition)
“HERMIT”, Flashback Hermit Foundation 1992-1999, publisher: Muzeum Uměni Olomouc, CZ
“Margita Titlová-Ylvosky”, essay in catalogue MTY, ed. Miroslav Jiřele. Aparat Publisher, Prague. 3
volumes
„Tomaš Ruller:Perform Made“ essay in catalogue. Kant, Prague.
„Aesthetics of Equality“, Michael J. Shapiro. Cover art. Oxford University Press.
2022 “Food for our Future, How Art Transforms Agriculture”, (co-author: N.Blanc). Routledge Press
2018 “Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability” co-authored w/ Nathalie Blanc.
series: Investigating Cultural Sustainability, Routledge Press
2015 Creating Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art. Ed, J.DeShazo and Z. Smith.
Chapter Eight: “A Community of Narrators and Translators” by Dee Hibbert-Jones, University
of California Santa Cruz, (Barbara Benish & Janeil Engelstad). Rowman & Littefield
Publishers, Lanham, Maryland, USA
2011 “UN Safe Planet Campaign and the Arts”. Basel, Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions of
the United Nations Environmental Program, Public Awareness and Outreach Report:
Success Stories of the Year.
2008 “Galerie Califia” review of “Color Fields” exhibition. Atelier magazine, Prague. April
2004 "Making Population Geography", by Adrian Bailey. Cover art. Published by Hodder Arnold, England.
2003 “mari”, 12-page artist book. hand silk-screened/painted images. edition of 50.
• “Back to Go”, by Frances Balcomb. Cover Illustration, Los Angeles, Ca.USA
2002 “slurring at bottom:a printer’s book of errors”, artist book by Robin
Price,Printer & Publisher. Connecticut, USA. edition of 50
1999 “Machinations” catalogue essay for Leland Means, artist works: (1996-97), Pasadena City
College gallery. Los Angeles, California
1997 “Strange Attractors” CD cover/design. Patricia Goodson, contemporary American piano
music, Prague, CZ.
1996 “Švelik”, “Dunaj” “Pustit Musis” (w/Iva Bittova), CD cover/design. Rachot records, Prague.
• “Czech Art during the Transition (1985-1995). Central European University. 300 pages.
(unpublished manuscript)
1995 Vytvarní Umeni Magazine, Prague, Winter edition. Co-Editor and
Contributor with Mindy Williams for Milena Slavická, Editor. Chapter:
“Contemporary American Art” Benish interview with Donald Kuspit.
1995 “The Book of Revelations”, Limited edition (50) of hand made books: 12 linoleum block
prints w/text. Robin Price,Printer & Publisher, Los Angeles, Ca.
1994 “Telex Reports: Prague”. review .Vernacular magazine, Winter
• The Prague Post,: Art reviews, “Petr Nikl” review, 15 May; “Momento:Berlin Art in
Prague”, June 1;“Galerie Behemot”, 15 June; “E Band”, 22 June.
TEACHING
Zapadčeský University Plzen, Czech Republic: Faculty, Department of Pedagogy and
Visual Culture, (2018-2020)
Anglo-American University, Prague, Czech Republic: Faculty, Studio Art, (2018-2022)
University of California, Santa Cruz, Art Department:
• Lecturer, Environmental Art, , UC Santa Cruz. USA (2019)
• Lecturer, Sculpture II, Art Department, (2013)
• Visiting Artist, Installation Art, U.C. Santa Cruz, USA (2009-10)
ArtMill Center for Sustainable Creativity, Czech Republic. Director: University, high school, middle
school+ International Study Abroad programs (2004-2021)
Academy of Art, Brno, Cz.: Experimental Graphics Ateliér with Margita Titlová (1998-99)
UMPRUM (Academy of Applied Arts, Prague): Visiting Artist, Ateliér of Kurt Gebauer (1993-94)
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California: Visiting Artist, (1990)
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, Ca.: Life Drawing Instructor, (1990-92)
Valley College, Van Nuys, California: Drawing Instructor, 1989
Scripps College, Claremont, California:Teaching Assistant, 1987 Claremont Graduate
School, Claremont, CA:Teaching Assistant, 1986
PROFESSIONAL Affiliations
Disorderly Women, the Alliance of Women Leaders in Culture (European Union)
Scholar, Huntington Library, California (1992-present)
Fellow, Social Practice Arts Research Center, UC Santa Cruz, USA (2013-present)
Board of Directors, California Lawyers for the Arts (2014-present)
Board of Directors, Transformative Education Forum U.S. (2014-15)
Co-Chair, UN Sustainable Development Education Caucus (2013-2015)
Advisor- Arts, Education and Outreach Advisor to the United Nations Safe Planet Campaign, under
the Auspices of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, UNEP (2010-15)
Founding Artist/Director, Galerie Califia, Czech Republic (2007-2014)
Advisory Board, školska Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (2010-2011)
Board of Directors, Fulbright Commission, Czech Republic (2010-2012)
PRESS
• Review: “Several Green Records of an Oversized Black Box” Flash Art/ Czech/Slovak
edition. XVI 2023 #68
• Review: “Little John”, Flash Art/ Czech/Slovak edition. XVI 2023 #68
• Langrová, Denisa. Little John v Pragovka Gallery 23.5.2023 ArtTalk.cz
• Špinková, Tereza. “Je třeba býti s kojotem – nebo raději ne?”. ArtTalk. 14.6.2023
• Zachová, Tea. (curator) “Little John” exhibition.Pragovka Gallery, Prague. KubaParis. 2023
• Redakce, ifotovideo, Festival Re-connect Art. 11 September, 2022
Aradská, Barbora. Interview OBJAVOVAŤ NOVÉ VRSTVY KOMUNIKÁCIE, Dok.Revue,
18.1.2022
• Janeksela, Jacklyn. “The Force Behind the Dialogue Between Two Countries for the Purpose
of Creating”, Oko magazine. Pg. 20, winter edition, #6, 2019
• Shubkina, Paulina. “Barbara Benish, Art Makes Change”. Urbanautica. 26.1.2017
• Pietrasová, Kateřina.“Galerie na okraji Prahy se neboji do živého“, Lidovky, CZ. Czech
Republic,
29.6.2017
• ČTK, “Barbara Benishová poukazuje na boj indiánů proti ropovodu”. Pražky deník.CZ
3.7.2017
• Navrátil, Ondřej. Příroda mezi uměním a environmentální výchovou. Kultura, Umění, a
Výchova. 1/2016. Magazine. 4(1) [cit. 2016-03-30]. ISSN 2336-1824. Dostupné z:
http://www.kuv.upol.cz/index.php?seo_url=aktualni- cislo&casopis=10&clanek=135
• Zavádil, Matouš Karel. “Rozhovor s Barbarou Benish”/interview with Barbara Benish, Ateliér
magazine, no.8, April, 2015. pg. 5. Prague.
• Engelstad, Janeil and B.Benish “ArtMill: Global Change Inspired from a Seed Planted in the
Czech Countryside”. ArtMargins, 13 July, 2014
• Stefanini, Alfonso. The Rio Times, Brazil News. “Rio+20 (plastics edition) The Problematic
Plastic Island States”. June 26, 2012
• Chavez, Elfego. "Ubiquity Exhibit Intrigues UHD Students, Staff". University of Houston
Downtown, Houston, Texas. Vol.XLVII, Issue 6, October 31, 2011
• “Life in the Age of Plastic”, Honolulu Weekly, March 24-31, 2011
• “El Quintana Roo”, Mexico, December (elquintanarroense.com), “What Will Be” exhibition,
2010
• "Spike Art Guide East" vol. 1. Edited by Antje Mayer & Rita Vitorelli. Interview with Mimi
Fronczak Rogers. 2009
• Hello magazine, Belgrade, Serbia. April 28-May 4, 2009. p. 26
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in Prague”, Czech TV, CT 24, 26.6.2008
• Frye, Barbara. “A Home in the Czech Mountains”, New York Times, 21 March, 2007
• “ARTLIST, encyklopedii ceskych vytvarnych umelcu” (Encyclopedia of Czech Visual Artists)
Centrum pro Současne Uměni, Praha. www.fcca.cz, 2007
• Kiwilszo, Joanna. “Mlynarzowa”, nowa gazeta praska, Warsaw, Poland. page 5, may, 2006
• Ozuna, Tony . “Back to her Roots”, Prague Post. Sept. 20, 2006
• Prague Post. (photo). “Barbara Benish: Mari”. Aug 30-Sept5, 2006. B18, Galleries
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18.7. 2005
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Circle"
UMELEC/ARTIST. Pgs. 57-59. Volume 9. 1/20 05
• "Jiste Stopy, Dialog: Los Angeles/Praha, 2004", ATELIéR magazine, Prague.
12.05.2004
• "Certain Traces, New Dialogue Los Angeles/Prague" Interactive Media Division weblog,
USC, Los Angeles. 2004
• Barath, Deepa. "Art Makes its Mark in Area Gallery", Daily Pilot, Newport Beach, CA. front
page. August 17, 2004
• Pachmanova, Martina. review: REFLEX magazine. 49/2004
• Rogers, Mimi. "Finding the Future in the Past, An international show reopens an historic
dialogue", Prague Post. 26 August, 2004
• "Up from the Underground", Prague Post, 8-14 December, 2004
• Kosová, Petra. "Tri vystavy se delí o místo v galerii", Mlada Fronta Dnes, C.R., October 17,
2003
• Soudek, Jan. "Nevední vystavy podněcují fantazii". Klatovsky Deník, C.R., November 11,
2003
• “Toit du Monde: 10 years”, by Sigusmund de Vajay, curator. Lars Mueller Birkhauser
verlag.Switzerland. 368 pgs. Color. 2002 (F,D, English, Es)
• “Who’s Who in America” (since 1997-present), publ.Marquis, New Providence, New Jersey,
USA
• Ateliér magazine, Prague. “Melancholia” at Morovska Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic, 2000
• Cermakáková, Monika. "Zivot je tady lidstejsí...", Mlada Front Dnes, June, 2000
• Rogers, Mimi. "Growing Up in Public", Prague Post, July 19, 2000. B8
• "Flower Power: Barbara Benish's Art in Blossom", Prague Post, 14 June, 2000Ticha, Jana.
"Barbara Benish: Hybrid Histories", Ateliér magazine, Prague, #8, 2000. pg. 9
• "Public Space as a Private Thing", Umelec magazine, Prague, #3, 2000.Vol.4 pg.20
• Roth, Charlene. "Barbara Benish at Montgomery Gallery", ArtWeek. California. May,2000
• "Barbara Benish: Hybrid Histories". Art Scene. November, 1999
• Chattopadhyay, Collette. "Barbara Benish at Huntington Beach Art Center", Sculpture
magazine, June, 1999 pg. 64
• Chattopadhyay, Collette. "In the Sphere of Ana Mendieta", Sculpturemagazine, June, 1999
• Curtis, Cathy. "Looking Ahead for a Historical Perspective". Los Angeles Times, 2 January,
1999. F2
• "Velvet Underground..." Los Angeles Times, 20 February,1999. F2. Huntington Beach Art
• Pachmanova, Martina. "The Politicization of the Private, or the Privatization of Politics? A
Czech art by women". ArtMargins www.artmargins.com, 1999
• Walsh, Daniella, "Abhorring a Vacuum, Adoring a Beach". Orange County Register, March,
1999 pg. 26 California. 14
• Cermáková, Monika. “V´ytvarnice se nehaly inspirovat tajemnou historií Faustova domu”
Kultura
p.5. 10 June, 1998 . Mlada Fronta Dnes
• Zadrazil, Pavel. “Objekty ve Faustove dome vycházejí z dávn´ych legend” Lidovy Noviny,
1998
• Cihaková, Vlasta. “Zaharada vecnosti”,Ateliér magazine/12. June12, 1997. p.4
• Horová, Andela. “Umelecké dílo ve verejném prostoru”, Ateliér 10, 1997, c. 24, s. 8
• Jarousová, Vera. “Jitro Kouzelniku?” Lidovy Noviny. April, 1997
• Micorovsky, Jiri. “Hadí Tanec”(“Snake Dance”) (photo), Ateliér, 6 Dec., 1997. Prague
• Pachmanová, Martina. “interview with B.Benish”(photos),Labyrint , November, 1997
• Rogers, Mimi, “Barbara Benish at Liben”,(photo) Prague Post, 13 Nov. 1997 ArtBeat
• Ticha, Jana. “Artist Profile”, Elle magazine, Dec., 1997
• Adamec, J. “Dva americtí umelci vystavují...”, Mlada Fronta Dnes, Dec. 5, 1996
• Brown, Betty Ann. “L.A. Review: ‘Felicity’...”,Coagula 17, (New York) May, 1996 p.44
• Cutujar, Mario. Artscene. Los Angeles, May, 1996
• Cihaková, Vlasta. “Water Enough for One Root” catalogue essay, Mánes Gallery, Prague.
1995
• Lindaurova, Lenka. “Dost Vody pro Jeden Koren”(Water Enough for One Root). Lidovy
• Pachmanova, Martina/ Zadrazil, P. “O imaginaci bolesti’ (the Imagination of Pain). Ateliér
mag. Prague #23/16.11, 1995. p.4
• Ticha, Jana. Interview;” Dost vody pro jeden koren”. Interview. Ateliér magazine. 11/25.5.
1995 Prague
• Zajícová, Gabriela. “Synagoga zase ozila” Blesk. Sept. 6, 1995. p.8
• Hlavácek, Josef. “Barbara Benish and Adéla Matasová”, Ateliér magazine, Prague, #11,
June 6, 1994 front page
• Kapitanoff, Nancy. “Points of View”. The Los Angeles Times. Sept. 30, 1994 p.5 (Art
• Korpaczewski, Igor. “What’s up...next door?” Ateliér magazine, 1994. Prague
• Krízová, Jana. “next door...” Pro magazine. Prague. 3.17. 1994 (foto)
• Lindaurová, Lenka. “Foreigners tvorici in Prague” Lidové Noviny, Prague3/2, 1994, Kultura
p.9
• Sunday Flores, Lisa. “Tearing Down Art’s ‘Thin Wall’”, Prague Post, 2-8 March, 1994
• Švamberk, Alex. “Umění z šedé zóny cizincu”, Mlada Fronta, 3 March, 1994 (foto)
• Dunitz, Robin J. “Street Gallery: guide to 1000 L.A. Murals”, RJ.D. Enterprises, Los Angeles,
c.1993
• Snow, Shauna.”Parks Dept. Seeks Funds for Murals” Los Angeles Times , Calendar, 6 Jan.
1993
• Wilson, William. “Lesser Known Talents Find Themselves in ‘Objects’, Los Angeles Times,
F30, 12 November, 1993
• Allman, Kevin. “A Valentine for LACMA Council” L.A.Times, 17 February, 1992
• Barrie, Lita. “Falling in Place: Liz Young and Barbara Benish at Otis/Parsons Gallery”,
Artweek, 12 March, 1992
• Barrie, Lita. “On the Scene:Los Angeles” Artscene Magazine, May/June, 1992
• Cihakova-Noshiro, Vlasta. “Snazim se Pracovat s Krasou-Barbara Benish”, Atelier (Prague),
5 June, 1992
• Curtis, Cathy. “Other Side of Gulf War Spotlighted” L.A.Times, Calendar, Orange County
edition. 4 May, 1992
• Dubin, Zan. “‘World News‘Tells Other Story” L.A.Times, Calendar, Orange County edition. 24
April, 1992
• Frank, Peter. “Pick of the Week: Liz Young and Barbara Benish”, L.A.Weekly, 612 March,
1992 Vol.14,No.14
• Hough, Jessica. “Artists Bring Hell to Occidental”,The Occidental, Pasadena. 1992
• Kosenko, Peter. “Mortification as Installation”, Visions Quarterly, Fall. 1992 p 39
• Klienmann, Thomas. “Melancholie in Holz”, Nurnberger Zeiting, Nurnberg, 25 April, 1992
• “Nurnberg” Durer’s Stiche im Materialmix”, Alendzeitiung, Nurnberg, 29 April, 1992
• “Variationen uber Durer”, Nurnberger Nachrichten, 23 April, 1992
• Kosenko, Peter. “Mortifiction as Installation:Liz Young and Barbara Benish” Visions Art
Quarterly Fall edition, 1992. Los Angeles
• Lidova Noviny, “Prasna Brana”, 12 April, 1992
• Sinnock, Bonnie. “Cultures Meet at the Wall” L.A..Independent, Vol.59, Jan. 1992
• Snow, Shauna. “Quirk Ethic in “Out-of-the-Blue”, L.A.Times, Calendar. 6 December. 1991
• Lilligren, Ingrid. “Abeles, Lawrence, and Benish. Actively Artists” So. California Women’s
Caucus for he Arts , Spring, 1992
• Nilson, Lisbet. “New Eyes on News of the World” L.A. Times, 17 February, 1992
• Skibell, Mark. “Art Goes to War” The Argonaut, (Venice, CA.) 26 February,1992
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February, 1992
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(Prague),14.4.1992
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1989
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14.12.1989
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RADIO & TELEVISION
• Česka Televize 1/Czech Television, Babylon, “Barbara Benish” directed by Petr Slavik. 12
February, 2021
• Česka Televize 1, Průvan, Občanský Žen, ArtDialog documentary. November, 2019
• Český Rozhlas/Czech Radio 1, interview on “Mni Wiconi”exhibition. rozhovory/
• “Voda je život - Pramen / Water is Life”, Galerijní Laboratoř, Prague, Czech Republic,
03.07.2017
• česka Televize “Nedej se Občanské noviny Ochránci posvátné řeky”.(On Standing Rock
protest.) 18.03.2018
• Český Rozhlas/Czech Radio, interview on ‘Artist as Activist’ exhibition, Prague, April 30,
2015
• Sunrise Hawai'i News Now, TV interview with Dan Clark, February 20, 2012
• University of Hawai'i local TV broadcast, Maui, O'ahu, Lanai. Discussion with Education
Theorist June Gorman on Rio+20, TEF and UN Safe Planet Campaign, February, 2012
• “Hawai'i Public Radio”, interview on exhibition “Architecture of Plastic”, Safe Planet
Campaign event, March 25-April 1, 2011
• Pacific Network TV, “Art and the Ocean” at University of Hawai'i, Manoa, 2011
• Mexican television interview, Cancun, December 3, 2010
• Česky rozhlas. (Czech national radio) interview on "Sky Diaries", exhibition at University
Gallery, Plzen, CZ. April, 2009
• Česky rozhlas.(Czech national radio)interview on Galerie Califia exhibitions:
"Hand-Werk", "From East to West", March, July, 2009
• Česky rozhlas. (Czech national radio)interview on "Picasso is Female", Galerie Navratil,
Prague, 2008
• Česky rozhlas. (Czech national radio) interview on "SonicSense" at Galerie Califia,
Horazd'ovice, C.R..
• Cesky rozhlas. (Czech national radio) interview on Plzen Nadraži exhibition “It Depends on
Bigness“, 2007
• Radio Vltava, (Czech national radio) interview on "Bread and a Millstone" exhibit in Prague,
2006
• Channel 2, Czech TV, jizny czech. "mari" exhibition at Jindrichuv Hradec, 2006
• Česky Rozhlas (Czech national radio), radio interview with Jana Klusaková. 12 December,
2004
• Ct 2, Czech Television. on "Jisté Stopy-Certain Traces" exhibition. By Tobiás Jirous. 13-15
December, 2004
• KUSC radio, Los Angeles. on "Jisté Stopy-Certain Traces" exhibition. 20-24
September,2004
• Česky Roshlas , interview on “The Bride in the Enclosed Garden”, Plzen, Czech Republic.
November, 2003
• Czech Radio, "Flower Power" interview on Vltava riverboat, June, 2000
• Czech Radio,1 “Hádi Tanec”/Snake Dance, interview at Liben Synagogue/Praha, Czech
Republic, 1997
• Czech Television, “American Artists in Prague”, channel 2, November, 1996
• Czech Television “Kulturny Dneska”, "Imagination of Pain" exhibition & Festival of the Old
Testament, 1995
• BBC, Site-ations exhibition, Program for the Arts, Cardiff, Wales. October, 1994
• Swiss Television, Ventilation exhibition, Toit-du-Monde Gallery, Vevey, Switzerland.
Monday, Aug.1, 1994
• Radio PRAGUE, “Apokalypsa Exhibition: Barbara Benish & Adela Matasova”
,Galerie Klatovy-Klenova, 2 May, 1994
• Czech Television News, “Galerie Mladych: Next Door Exhibition” interviews with the artists,
1 and 3 March, 1994
• National Public Radio “Morning Edition”, Interviews with 3 American artists, 1992
• Century Cable Television “Westside Report” by Leslie Conner. Interview with Kim Abeles
and B. Benish on the World News exhibition. 6,7, & 8 March, 1991
• Radio interview recorded in Prague on “Dialogue:Prague/Los Angeles” exchange
exhibition, 1990
• Cal Net News, Los Angeles, “Appreciating Art”, Interview on “Dialogue: Monoprints” 1990
• Financial News Network, CNN. December, 1990
• Interview , National Public Radio, USA. 1990
• Radio PRAGUE, Interview on “Dialogue:Prague/Los Angeles”, August, 1989
• KCRW, Los Angeles Public Radio: Interview by Larry Stein. November, 1989
• Center for Contemporary Art, Prague (SCCA)
• New York Public Library Book Collection
• Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA
• San Francisco Public Library, California
• Smith College Library
• South Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
• Sweet Briar College, Alabama, USA
• Yale University Book Collection, USA
• Honnold Library, Claremont, California
• Boston Public Library,USA
• Stanford University Rare Books Collection
And private collections around the world: Honolulu, Los Angeles, Lisbon, New York,
Prague, etc.
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2018-19 “Civic Women”, w/Lydia Matthews, ArtMill, Czech Republic
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
• “ The Book of Revelations ” with Printer /Publisher, Robin Price:
Stadtgeschichtliche Museen/DürerHaus, Nürnberg, German y
Pomona College Museum of Art at Claremont University, California, USA
• Athenium Library, La Jolla, California
• The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA
2017 “I’m/MIGRATION”, ArtMill Barn, Czech Republic
2010-2014 United Nations Safe Planet Campaign Exhibitions & Events: What Will Be,
Universidad Technologica, for the UNCOP16 Climate Change Conference at
Cancun (QuintanaRoo), Mexico; The Architecture of Plastic, Architecture Gallery,
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i for the 5th International Marine
Debris Conference; Full Fathom Five, Metz Gallery, (NYC) for the UN Conference on
Sustainable Development, New York; The Ocean in Us, Roundhouse Mews,
Vancouver, Canada
2007-2014 Galerie Califia: curated and organized 35 exhibitions, international+ local artists 20032004
“Certain Traces, Dialogue: Los Angeles/Prague, 2004".
co-curator with Sarah Brock (Prague) and advisory curator
Rebecca McGrew, with Anne Ayers. Pomona College Museum of Art, CA.
Barnsdall Munincipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; POST gallery, Los Angeles;
Crossroads Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.; S.C.A.P.E.
Corona del Mar, CA.; Muzeum Kampa, Prague; Kotlarna, Prague. (catalogue)
1993 “Address and Undress”, Lauren Lesko and Leland Means.,Pasadena City College Art Gallery
(catalogue)
1992 “Out-of-the-Blue”, Co-curator w/ M.Artino/ J. O’Brien: 9 Installation Artists ,Vignes Buillding,
Los.Angeles, California
1991-2 “Artists Respond to the Persian Gulf War” Co-curator w/ K. Abeles/ D.
Lawrence: World News, , Beyond Baroque, Venice; Onyx Cafe, L. A.,
Muckenthaler Gallery, Fullerton, CA. (catalogue by Kim Abeles)
1989-90. “Dialogue:Prague/Los Angeles”.Co-curator w/ Zdenka Gabalová: International
Exchange+ two symposiums; in L.A. and Prague: Otis/Parsons Gallery, L.A.;
Santa Monica Museum of Art; Highland Park; Lidový Dům, Praha; Galerie
Mladých, Praha, (two catalogues- essays by B. Benish, Stephen Eisenman, Peter
Frank, Z. Gabalová, Kim Levin)
GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS
• Creative Europe Grant, EU, (ArtMill), Transformative Territories 2022-25
• Creative Europe Grant, European Union, (ArtMill)“La Table et Territoire” 2019-21
• Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic, “30 years of Freedom”(ArtMill) exhibit 2019
• United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), Geneva 2015
• Město Horaždovice; Plzenský Kraj; Czech Ministry of Culture(GalerieCalifia) 2007-14
• Czech Ministry of Culture; Norwegian Embassy; U.S. Embassy, Prague; Rachot; Respect
Festival, and “Ahoj! project” at Museum Kampa 2012
• Basel, Stockholm & Rotterdam Conventions, (UNEP), Geneva. 2011
• European Union, Youth in Action program, (Erasmus), ArtMill 2011
• Basel, Stockholm & Rotterdam Conventions, (UNEP), Geneva 2010
• Exhibition Grant, U.S. Embassy, Prague
• Publication Grant, U.S. Embassy, Prague 2009
• Artist Grant, Center for Contemporary Art, Prague 2007
• Research Support Grant, Central European University, Budapest 2004
• Travel Grant, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, 1995-97
• Fulbright (professor) Award, Prague, Czechoslovakia 1993
Artist Grant, Cultural Affairs Dept., City of Los Angeles 1993
• Mural Commission, Social Public Arts Resource Center, Venice, CA 1992
• Artist Grant, Cultural Affairs Dept., City of Los Angeles, USA 1991
• Certificate of Appreciation from the City of Los Angeles, USA 1990
• Artist Liason, Honorable Mention, Chicago, Illinois 1989
• Research Grant, Council of Graduate Students, Claremont Colleges, CA. 1988
• Graduate Fellowship, Claremont Colleges, CA. 1987
• Rotary Club International Scholarship,Graduate Division: Stockholm, Sweden 1983-4
• Scholarship-Life Drawing, Chouinard Institute of Art, Los Angeles, California 1974-6