HENRY BANGER BENVENUTI

INSIDE THE OUTSIDE

Female, Ray Charles and Male

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“The Guardhouse”, left to right: Bridget Bardot, Woody Guthrie, Yoko and John Lennon, Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai, Jerry Rubens, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King and sleeping guard!

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Walden Pond with the Ghost uv Henry David Thoreau the transcendentalist.

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INSIDE THE OUTSIDE

“Raven Feedin a Prophet” iz a 5 second visual poem uv a raven feedin the Spirit uv a Prophet rendered with the help uv Nancy Oliveri and her 8 year experience with AI.

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2, 4, and Six Lovers

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Estero Island, Florida 2 yearz after hurricane Ian destroyed most uv the island.

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I am Henry Banger Benvenuti, born in 1952 at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. I began my artistic career serving professionally az an illustrator-journalist in the U.S. Army. I waz drafted in 1972 during the Vietnam era and released with an Honorable Discharge in 1975 and immediately began workin for the family bakery delivering bread to nearby Ohio and West Virginia before the bakery went bankrupt. I then decided to move to New York on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan, the center of the New York punk scene in 1977, to pursue an art career. Amid the Lower Eastside’z thriving punk culture I brainstormed and participated in organizing the first NYC punk art exhibition, titled “punk no-wave”, in 1978 at the Nonson Gallery located in Soho at 133 Wooster Street. This exhibition challenged the social coup d’etat of the New York Citie’s art gallery scene. I figured that I would be black listed by the social grip of the Galleries Vulture Committee uv that Pop era. However, at that time i waz livin off the GI bill payin for classes at the Art Students League and feeling that someone must offer a venue to emerging artists…

Flat broke with no job I began collecting found magazines from society and still uze societies imagery and internet digital imagez az a medium for my graphic, collage, dissected recreationz.

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel,
and not with the wisdom of human eloquence,
so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its meaning.
1 corinthians 1:17

I am just a man who struggles alone with my art, my spirituality and the
world around me, invoking inspiration with heartache and an overwhelming desire to
overcome adversity at its worst.
With an increasing sense for sacrifice and compassion taught to me at a young age I
bulldoze through the decades of never-ending barriers that try to hold me back from attaining
the goals my spirituality lays upon me. While the world around me tries to crush my desire
to “make a better world” at first succeeds, in the the end the world will lose to loyalty and
compassion for the things that make humans good, the heart.
Born into a hard working family of bakers I follow my intuition and instincts pursuing a
direction that resists my earthly desires, of which I had many, and succumbs to what
fuels my drive most, the Holy Spirit, the true friend of friends and the strength of all strengths.
Now near the end of my life, after being educatd by the school of hard knocks I finally gain a
yearning not to submit to my duplicitous desires and begin earning an inordinate sense of spiritual
accomplishment. My aim is to live as a Franciscan and a Vincentian avoiding the contemporary art
worlds false sense of accomplishment, but yet, to keep creating art that speaks the tongue of the Holy Spirit. This sense of true accomplishment can only be bestowed on those willing to earn earthly neglect and rejection from that false sense of worldly truth, fame and fortune.

there was a crooked man
who walked a crooked mile
and gained a crooked six pence
and earned crooked sm

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cabeza masculina, gato jaguar con un pájar, chica con 2 espejos

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Magdalene Vase, clay, courtesy of Beth Ann & Dino Benvenuti, covert crucifixion, Gabriel

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Arrival in Bethlehem

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GiGi Woolworth, Lauren Hutton, Parisian Female

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After the Battle uv Anghiari never finished by Da Vinci, finished by Rubenz

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Solome with John’s Head, Stoning uv Saint Stephen, The Worshipping uv the Golden Calf

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INQUIRIES

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COLLECTORS

David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Diana Osana, Agnes b., Gregory Corso, Nicholas Helion, Jean Michel Basquiat, A-One, Sharon Gless, John & Joanne Rooney, Jake Woolworth, Michael Woolworth, Gigi Woolworth, William Coupon, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, Stephen Lack, Andrew Ainsworth, Scott Nussbaum, Robert Aaron, Michael & Denise Terral, William Coupon, Felicia & Francisco Baixauli, Maripol MP, Henry & Geralyn Sneath

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Curriculum vitae

HENRY BANGER BENVENUTI                                                 Toronto & Ft Myers, FL 

Born 1952, Pittsburgh, PA                                                                           henrybenvenuti@ymail.com 

Represented by Agnes b. Gallery, Paris, France                                           239-490-1573 

EDUCATION  

Art Institute of Pittsburgh 

Ivy School of Professional Art 

Carnegie Mellon 

Art Students League 

AWARDS 

Illustrator/Journalist   US ARMY 1972-1975   Pentagon awards for excellence in Journalism 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2025 Agnes b. Gallery Henry Banger Benvenuti retrospective of paintings 1990-94 from Agnes’s private collection 31-33 Cours d’Estienne d’Orves, 13001 Marseille, France 

2025 PH21 Gallery, Henry Banger Benvenuti Portraits, digital art & photo cuts Carrer del Paradis 5, Ciutat Vella 08002 Barcelona, Spain 

2009 Galerie du Jour, Agnes, b. Paris 

2009 Galerie du Jour, Agnes b. Paris 

1998 “Western Social Comment” Galerie du Jour Agnes b, Tokyo 

1995 Galerie du Jour Agnes b. Paris 

1995 Galerie du Jour Agnes b 

1993 Salon Decouvertes Grand Palais, Paris 

1990 Gallerie du Jour Agnes b., Paris 

1985 Gallery Beaulaland,  New York City 

1980 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh 

1979 Nonson Gallery, New York City 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

2025 Portraits Beyond Faces, PH21 Gallery Budapest 

2025 Scapes, PH21 Gallery, Budapest 

2007 Nuit Blanche, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto 

2006 Toronto Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art 

2004 “Mindscapes” CAMH National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

1994 Les Abattoire, Toulouse, France 

1992 “Collection of Agnes b.” Musee Picasso, Antibes 

1992 Espace de Arts, Chalon Sur Soane 

1981 PS1 “New York/New Wave” curated by Diego Cortez, Queens, New York City 

1979 “New York-No Wave” Nonson  Gallery  

TORONTO FILM INDUSTRY 

2025-2002 Scenic painter with International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Union, Local 873

2021 Nightmare Alley, thriller 

2019 IT, Chapter 2, horror mystery

2017 IT, horror mystery 

2016 Suicide Squad, action comedy

2008, The Incredible Hulk, action sci-fi 

2007, Eastern Promises, thriller 

2005 The History of Violence, thriller 

2003, The Hulk, action sci-fi 

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS 

Agnes b., Robert Arron, Jean Michel Basquiat, Maria Bello, Lisa Brown, Chase Manhattan Bank, Rachel 

Cooper, Gregory Corso, David Cronenberg, William Coupon, Paul Garfinkel, Sharon Gless, Michael 

Hausman, Nicolas Helion, Pierre Larouche, Robert Maplethorpe, Viggo Mortenson, Diana Osana, 

Dan Rooney, Joe Seally, J.F. Vallee, Naomi Watts, F.C Jake Woolworth, Gigi Woolworth, Michael 

Woolworth, Scott Nussbaum, Chairman Americas & Senior International Specialists Contemporary Art, 

Stephen Lack, Andrew Ainsworth, Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Toronto, Neicey & Michael Terral 

PRESS 

2026 Toronto Guardian, Toronto

1996 Bravo Cable Fashion television, Toronto

1992 Le Nice Matin, Cover, Nice, France

1991 Le Billet Gauche: Arts Section, Paris

1981Interview Magazine, Beat Section, New York City

1979 Soho News: Arts Section, New York City

1978 Village Voice: Art Section, New York 

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