statement

A good painting can be simultaneously precious and spontaneous, searingly truthful and a profound impossibility. I intend for my paintings to be all of those things.

bio

born: 1974, Hartford, Connecticut

education

Fontbonne University, MFA Painting, 1999
Central Connecticut State University, BA Studio Art/Illustration, 1996

selected solo or two-person exhibits

LeMieux Galleries, Let Them See Cake by Benjamin J. Shamback, New Orleans, LA 2016
Bonner David Gallery, Benjamin Shamback, Scottsdale, AZ 2015

selected group shows

Ellington-White Contemporary Art Gallery, 2nd Art and Flowers Juried Art Competition, Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 2016
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Secret Garden,Cincinnati, Ohio, January 2016