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Cameron Bennett was born in 1971 in Brooklyn, NY. His parents, both artists, provided his first training. His formal art instruction began at the Baltimore School for the Arts, a specialized high school in Baltimore, MD, and continued at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Massachusetts College of Art from which he received his B.F.A. in illustration in 1994.
Since graduating, he has held various jobs such as illustrator, painting-conservator’s assistant, quick-sketch portrait-artist, and caster of plaster art objects, while simultaneously trying to do as much drawing and painting as possible. Since 1999, Cameron has been able to devote himself full-time to his art, painting portraits and making illustrations to support himself.
In 1999, he organized two solo exhibitions for himself, one at the new Topsfield Town Library, the other in the lower art gallery of the historic Converse Building at the Malden Public Library. Both of those institutions have purchased or commissioned paintings from Cameron. He exhibits regularly at the Springfield Academic Artists Association annual national exhibition; he has won awards twice with his portraits at this juried show.
Cameron is most inspired by the paintings and drawings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly those of Sargent and Abbey, Gibson, Zorn and Mucha. His deepest respect and admiration is for artists who are true draughtsmen and masters of representation, and his real love is for those artists who are excellent figure and portrait-painters. He strives for a level of excellence comparable to that of his heroes in art, which is indisputably represented in their accomplished draughtsmanship and the pure, poetic handling of their media.
Cameron Bennett, Painter and Illustrator
Born 1971, Brooklyn,
NY
Topsfield Town Library. Topsfield, Massachusetts
Malden Public Library. Malden, Massachusetts
Massachusetts District Attorneys Association. Boston, Massachusetts
Allyn and Bacon Publishers
America Magazine
Annalee Dolls
Casey & Hayes Movers
E-week Magazine
General Motors Corporation
Hippo Press
Salem Observer newspaper
Spare Change Newspaper
2003 November. Harvard Club, Boston, MA. Still-Life Exhibition, Group show
2002 May. The Gallery at Langer Place, Manchester, NH. Annual Exhibition of the Students of the Paul Ingbretson Atelier.
2002 April. Academic Artists Association, 52 nd National Exhibition, Springfield, MA.
2000 April. Academic Artists Association, 50 th National Exhibition, Springfield, MA.
1999 November. Malden Public Library, Malden, MA. Solo exhibition of paintings, drawings, and published illustrations from 1994-1999.
1999 September. Topsfield Town Library, Topsfield, MA. Solo exhibition of paintings, drawings, and published illustrations from 1994-1999.
1999 April. Academic Artists Association, 49th National Exhibition, Springfield, MA.
1998 April. Academic Artists Association, 48th National Exhibition, Springfield, MA.
1997 April. Academic Artists Association, 47th National Exhibition, Springfield, MA.
1997 April. COLLIDE-A-SCOPE II, The Distillery, South Boston, MA. Group show.
1996 December. Emerging Artists Gallery, North Cambridge, MA. Group show.
1996 October. Kougeas Gallery, East Boston, MA. Group show.
1996 September. COLLIDE-A-SCOPE I, The Distillery, South Boston, MA. Group show.
1994 May. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Senior degree-project group show.
1992 Fall. Massachusetts College of Art Library, Boston, MA. Sketchbooks exhibit.
2001-05 Paul Ingbretson Studio of Drawing and Painting, Manchester, NH.
1994-95 Winter. National Academy of Design, New York, NY. Portrait workshops with Aaron Shikler and Daniel Greene.
1992-94. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. BFA Illustration.
1990-91. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
1989-90. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
1987-89. Baltimore School For the Arts, Baltimore, MD. High school diploma.
2001-06 Winter. Hampshire Plaza Mall, Manchester, NH. Sketching portraits.
1998-Present. Freelance portrait-painting and illustration.
1999 January-May. Art instructor to home-schooled children, Randolph, MA.
1997-98. Gormenghast, Faneuil Hall, MA. Sales of own line of craft items.
1997-98. Ritual Arts, Cambridge, MA. Sales of own line of craft items.
1997 Winter. Maxima Art Center, Arlington, MA. Sketching portraits from life.
1996-98. Archaeology, Charlestown, MA. Fresco-reproduction workshop.
1995-96. Forgotten Arts, Cambridge, MA. Sales of own line of craft items.
1995 Winter. CambridgeSide Galleria, Cambridge, MA. Sketching portraits from life.
1995 Summer-Fall. Fun Enterprises, Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA. Sketching caricatures.
1994-1995 Winter. Art Conservation Services, Fenway Studios, Boston, MA. Painting conservator's assistant.
1990 Summer. The Brokerage, Baltimore, MD. Sketching caricatures.
2002 April. Winner of the Academic Artists Association Award for Oil Painting, portrait. Academic Artists Association, 52 nd National Exhibition, Springfield, MA.
2001 March. Third Prize, landscape painting. Boston Archdiocesan Choir School Annual Fundraiser Exhibition, Cambridge, MA.
2000 April. Winner of the Granville Carter Award for Traditional Portrait Painting. Academic Artists Association, 50th National Exhibition, Springfield, MA.
1987 Winter. Presentation of a figure drawing in-person to Rudolph Nureyev. Baltimore School for the Arts. Baltimore, MD.
2004 “Aritst Will Capture Your Summer In A Sketch,” Omer, Sarah, MARTHA’S VINEYARD TIMES, August 19, 2004
2004 “World Class Art,” Grossmith, Pat, UNION LEADER, July18, 2004
2003 “Artist at Work,” Kepple, Benjamin, UNION LEADER, December 29, 2003
2000 “Cameron Bennett: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings,” Baron, Cynthia, SPARE CHANGE NEWSPAPER, January 12, 2000
1999 “An Artist on Top in Topsfield,” Ellington, Robin, MALDEN OBSERVER, September 23, 1999
American Renaissance painting and sculpture
Acquiring and playing musical instruments