Born in 1964 in Haiti, lives and works in Port-au-Prince.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2007
 Afronova, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2006
 Institut Français d’Haïti, Port-au-Prince, Haïti.

2005
 Institut Français d’Haïti, Port-au-Prince, Haïti.
 Chez Gerard, Pétion-Ville, Haïti.

2003
 Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA.

2002
 Alliance Française, Jacmel, Haïti.
 Carmen Rita Pérez, Arte Actual, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

2001
 Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris, France.

2000
 Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, DC, USA.
 Institute of Visual Arts, Fort-de-France, Martinique.

1998
 Bourbon Lally Gallery, Pétion-Ville, Haïti.

1997
 Musée d’art haïtien, Port-au-Prince, Haïti.

1983
 Institut Français de l’Amérique Latine, Mexico City, Mexico.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2004
 Latitudes, Terres de l’Atlantique, Hotel de Ville Paris, France.
 Lespri Endepandan, Discovering Haitian Sculpture Frost Art Museum, Miami Florida, USA
 Etter Colombus.com, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway.

2003
 “Art Miami”, Miami, USA

2002
 “Splash”, Bourbon Lally Gallery, Miami, USA

2001
 4th Caribbean Biennial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
 49th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

2000
 “Haïti: anges et demons”, Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris, France

1999
 “Mastering the Millennium”, Art Museum of the Americas, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA.

1998
 Bourbon Lally Gallery, Pétion-Ville, Haïti.
 Caribe Insular Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericaneo de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain.
 24th Biennial of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
 “L’art dans le monde”, Beaux Arts magazine, Passage Retz, Paris, France.
 ARCO, Boubon Lally Gallery, Madrid, Spain,

1997
 7th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg,

1996
 “The Other Journey”, Kreims, Austria

1995
 “Otro pais”, Palau de Vereina, Barcelona, Spain.

Mario Benjamin was born in Port au Prince, Haiti in 1964 and is a self-taught artist. Benjamin began exhibiting in 1982, and has since shown his work in such countries as Italy, Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, Spain, France and the United States. In 1997 he was invited to participate in the Biennials of Johannesburg, then the Havana Biennale, which were followed by invitations to the Biennial of Sao Paulo and the Biennial of Venice.

“Mario Benjamin is a stubborn and complex character. He was born in a country where his experience of the absurd forced him into conflict with madness and he was obliged to recreate himself. He fashioned himself alone, far from a world in which he was unable to decently recognize himself.” Simon Njami, Curator (Otro Pais, Escalas Africanas)