Paul Stephen Benjamin received his BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MFA from Georgia State University. In 2019, he exhibited Pure, Very, New at Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY and participated in the Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba. He’s been included in solo and group exhibitions at a variety of institutions and art spaces, including Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (2018), Telfair Museum Jepson Center, Savannah, GA (2018), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2017), Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA (2017), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (2016), among others. He has received a range of awards and fellowships, including The Southern Art Prize (2018), The State Fellow of Georgia (2018), Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Fellow (2017), Artadia Award (2014), Winnie B. Chandler Fellowship, Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship, and the Forward Arts Emerging Artists Award. Benjamin is a finalist for the distinguished Hudgens Prize in Georgia (2019). He was born in Chicago and lives and works in Atlanta.