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Barton Lidice Benes Biography
1942
Born in Westwood, NJ
1960 - 1961
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1988
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Resides and works in New York City
Educated at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Barton Lidicé Benes became internationally known in the 1980s as the "money artist” when he collaged recycled currency onto sculptural and flat forms. Benes has spent much of the last thirty-five years filling his West Village apartment with an array of objects ranging from the macabre to the fantastic: dead snakes, a purse made from a frog, one of Hitler’s spoons, voodoo dolls and African masks. It has recently been announced that when he dies, his home, with its collection of wonders, will be taken apart and reconstructed at the North Dakota Museum of Art as a permanent installation. His work is included in the collections of The Chicago Art Institute, the National Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Australia and the North Dakota Museum of Art.
Selected Exhibitions
2006 - 2007
Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (solo)
2004
New Works by Barton Lidice Benes, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND. (solo)
2004
Corporal Identity–Body Language, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2003
Food Matters: Explorations in Contemporary Art, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2003
Triennial 9 Form and Contents: Corporal Identity, The American Craft Museum,
2003
Barton Benes: Curiosa, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2002 - 2003
Show Me the Money, the Dollar as Art, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida. Traveled to Palm Springs Desert Museum, American Numismatic Association, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Boston Federal Reserve.
2002
Barton Lidice Benes: Curiosa, Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York (solo)
2002
Barton Lidice Benes: Souvenirs, Galleri Stefan Anderson, Umeå, Sweden (solo)
2001
Art at the Edge of the Law, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2001
Extra Art: A Survey of Arists’ Ephemera, 1960-1999, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
2000 - 2001
Reliquaries, Borås, Sweden, Borås Konstmuseum. Traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden; and Museokeskus Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland (solo)
1999 - 2000
Reliquarium, Galeria 111, Porto, Portugal. Traveled to Galeria 111, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1999
Barton Benes: Reliquaries, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (solo)
1998
Spirited Away, A Space, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1998
The Estate Project, Artists Living with HIV/AIDS web site presented at the Museum of Modern Art, World AIDS Day, The Virtual Collection
1997
Lethal Weapons, Coke Gallery, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico (solo)
1994
Money Madness, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND (solo)
Literature
2002
Abrams, Curiosa: Celebrity Relics, Historical Fossils, and Other Metamorphic Rubbish, Barton Lidice Benes, introduction by John Berendt
1999
POZ Magazine, The Passion of Barton Benes, David Groff
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