Caroline Chana Benchetrit

Painter, Sculptor & Illustrator / Canada

ABOUT

Caroline Chana Benchetrit is a Canadian painter, sculptor and illustrator. Benchetrit left behind a business and academic career including an MBA from Concordia and PH.D studies at Montreal’s Ivy League McGill University in 1996 to pursue her artistic dream. Her signature style is known for her “Girls” which have been reproduced as life size porcelain and and bronze sculptures and her figurative and abstract mixed media paintings.

Her artworks are collected in North America, Europe and Asia and have been exhibited in over 20 galleries, globally. Benchetrit is widely published in art reviews and has been featured as one of Canada’s top up and coming artists. Her work has been widely published in magazines including the Washington D.C. Rag which reports the news from Capitol Hill. She is listed as a resource artist for top Design Houses and has been recommended for animation by a Board member of the Guggenheim Museum. Benchetrit’s four cartoon properties which have been marketed for years at the Cannes MIPCOM show by a variety of reknown North American and European Producers. In addition to sculpture, painting and animation Benchetrit's branded line of designs are agented by Image Conscious (San Francisco), Saatchi (London), Artfully Walls (NYC), and Singulart (Paris, France) for Consumer Product and Art Publishing licenses. In 2020 Benchetriit was invited by the curatorial board to attend and exhibit her work at the Biennale in Florence.

She was invited in Global Artist Committee of Asian Art Association in April 2021.

Artist Statement

My paintings, sculptures and surface designs are inspired by expressions of a passionate moment in time where joy breaks all boundaries. My newer abstract work takes a journey into expressions of joyful and peaceful spaces within and energetic representations of the outer world and experiences.

Exhibitions

2021 WOMEN ON TOP, Zenith Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
2020 SURTEX, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA
2019 TINY TREASURES, ZENITH GALLERY, WASHINGTON D.C.
2019 LOVE IN ALL MEDIUMS, ZENITH GALLERY, WASHINGTON D.C., USA
2019 VICTORIA HALL GALLERY GROUP SHOW , WESTMOUNT, QUEBEC
2019 SURTEX, ORIGINAL ART AND DESIGN , NEW YORK , USA
2018 SURTEX, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA
2017 REJUVENATE WITH ART: 39th Anniversary Zenith Gallery Washington D.C.
2017 SURTEX , NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA
2016 SOLO SHOW: A RETROSPECTIVE, ARTS MONARO, MONTREAL
2016 HUMOUR HEALS AND REJUVENATES, ZENITH GALLERY, WASHINGTON D.C., USA
2015 GROUP SHOW: CULTURE CLUSTER, ZENITH GALLERY WASHING TON D.C., USA
2015 FREAKY GALLERY OPENING, DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, USA
2015 GROUP SHOW, GALLERY LYDIA MONARO, MONTREAL
2010 ETHEREAL MOMENTS, GALLERY LYDIA MONARO, MONTREAL
2010 PAPER WORKS, OENO GALLERY, ONTARIO
2010 NUITS BLANCHES, GALLERY LYDIA MONARO, MONTREAL
2009 XMAS EXHIBIT, GALLERY LYDIA MONARO, MONTREAL
2007 CLOSE TO HOME, VICTORIA HALL GALLERY GROUP SHOW, MONTREAL
2004 MIXED MEDIA SHOW, GALLERY LYDIA MONARO, MONTREAL
2004 FOUR NEW ARTISTS TO DISCOVER, SHAYNE GALLERY, MONTREAL
2004 QUINZAINE SEPHARADE DES PIONNIERS A LA RELEVE, SAIDYE BRONFMAN CENTRE, MONTREAL
2001 PORCELAINE GIRLS GALLERY LYDIA MONARO, MONTREAL
2001 PORCELAINE GIRLS SHAYNE GALLERY, MONTREAL

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