
LESLIE BENDER RESUME
LESLIE BENDER
Focus: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking
SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2014 Woodstock Artists Association Museum, Woodstock, NY “Passage”
2009 Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, NY MFA Exhibition
2009 Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, NY MFA Exhibition
2008 Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
1995-8 New York State Museum, Albany, NY Mohawk-Hudson Regional
1998 Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
1991 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY “New York Series the IX: Message to Future”
1988 Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY “Committed to Print”
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada “Committed to Print”
Peace Museum, Chicago, Ill “Committed to Print”
New York State Museum, Albany, NY “Committed to Print”
1984 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY "MetaManhattan"
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Miss Porters School Farmington CT
2013 Shahinian Fine Arts, Rhinebeck, NY
2013 Shahinian Fine Arts, Rhinebeck, NY
2012 Miss Porters School Farmington, CT
2010 The Doghouse Gallery Saugerties, NY
2008 James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY
2000 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
1998 R & F Encaustics, Kingston, NY
1997 Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY
1991 James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY
SELECTED TWO & THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012 Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, NY
2011 BAG, Brooklyn, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2009 Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
2006 Chase/Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, NY
Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2017 “Here comes 'Condozilla': Housing protest posters from around the globe”
(Travelling Exhibition by Center for the Study of Political Graphics, California)
2013 Ulster County Community College Stoneridge, NY “Cut & Paste”
(Travelling Exhibition by Center for the Study of Political Graphics, California)
2013 Ulster County Community College Stoneridge, NY “Cut & Paste”
2012 Mad Dooley Gallery, Beacon NY
Albert Shahinian Fine Arts, Rhinebeck, NY 2011
Masters on Main, “Earth Scrolls” Installation, Catskill, NY
2010 Barrett Art Center Galleries, “Printwork ʼ10 Juried by Asher Miller, PhD., Metropolitan Museum of Art, Poughkeepsie,NY
2004 Albert Shahinian Fine Arts, Poughkeepsie, NY
2000 Lobby Galleries, Durst Organization, NY, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
Fairview Art Museum, Springville, UT
Dutchess Community College, Hyde Park, NY
Fyns Grafiske Vaerksted, Odense, Denmark
Fyns Grafiske Vaerksted, Odense, Denmark
Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock, NY
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli, NY
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
2016 NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Bootcamp with Roxbury Arts Group
2012 Prescott Visiting Artist, Miss Porters School
2012 Prescott Visiting Artist, Miss Porters School
2007-9 Sojourner Truth Fellowship, SUNY New Paltz
2000 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency
S.O.S. Grant, NYFA
Woodstock Artist Association, Barbara Bertoli Award
Woodstock Artist Association, Barbara Bertoli Award
NYFA Grant, in conjunction with The Kleinert James Art Center, Woodstock, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Angry Graphics, Peregrine Books On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City. 2009 Janet Braun-Reinitz & Jane Weissman NYCMuralBook@aol.com
Angry Graphics, Peregrine Books On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City. 2009 Janet Braun-Reinitz & Jane Weissman NYCMuralBook@aol.com
Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art. 1986
Taste, Culinary Institute. 1991
Antiques & Arts Weekly. August, 1991
New York Times. October 7, 1982
Arts & Sciences. May 29, 1991
Newsday. 1983
EDUCATION
2009 MFA, Printmaking SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
1995 Graduate in Scenic Painting, Cobalt Studios, White Lake, NY
1975 BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Art Students League
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Infuse Gallery, Colorado
James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY
James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY
Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Rhinebeck, NY




