HENRY BANGER BENVENUTI
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Female, Ray Charles and Male
A video still uv “The Ballet Dirge uv War”. In collaboration with Nancy Oliveri and AI, we show sunflowerz the national flower uv Ukraine, with Russian dancerz in masque’z, dancing on the dead frozen sunflowers, with a war scene background, in a poetic video protest against immature, childish, adult behaviour!
“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!
Walden Pond with the Ghost uv Henry David Thoreau the transcendentalist.
Football Watermelon Baseball
Flamenco Club Dancing
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“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.
2, 4, and Six Lovers
poster hung in cbgb’z in 1978 calling all genrez uv artists to submit to an exhibition that waz titled new-wave punk but changed to no-wave punk.
dancers at the mudd club,1978
sid vicious, bass player for the punk band ‘sex pistols’.
Estero Island, Florida 2 yearz after hurricane Ian destroyed most uv the island.
ARTIST’Z STATEMENT
I began my artistic career servin 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 deliverin bread to nearby Ohio and West Virginia restaurants and supermarkets for a coupla yearz 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, to pursue an art career. Amid the Lower Eastside’z thriving punk culture i brainstormed and participated in organizin the first punk no-wave art exhibition in 1978 at the Nonson Gallery located in Soho at 133 Wooster Street between Houston and Prince streets. This exhibition fulfilled my desire to challenge the capitalist coup d’etat of the New York art gallery scene, totally knowin that i would be black listed by the social grip of the Galleries Vulture Committee uv that era. At that time i waz livin off the GI bill payin for classes at the Art Students League and apartment rental, which left me with just enough money to eat. Flat broke with no job i began collectin magazines from the garbage uze’in them az a medium for my creationz. i would sell them from the street, az a pirate street vendor, makin enough money to buy art suppliez. however i continued uzein magazinez az my primary medium and soon began to see the magazine figurez az what they really are, societiez false sense uv imagery, a mass media reality uv the blind leading a cacophany of blind followerz. now i had a real reason to create, with a confronting “INSIDE THE OUTSIDE” viewpoint that waz inspired by my friend, at the time, Gregory Corso.
cabeza masculina, gato jaguar con un pájar, chica con 2 espejos
Magdalene Vase, clay, courtesy of Beth Ann & Dino Benvenuti, covert crucifixion, Gabriel
Gun god, Peer Violence Violent Peer, Outside Eden
Arrival in Bethlehem
GiGi Woolworth, Lauren Hutton, Parisian Female
After the Battle uv Anghiari never finished by Da Vinci, finished by Rubenz
Solome with John’s Head, Stoning uv Saint Stephen, The Worshipping uv the Golden Calf
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
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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