Sylvia Benitez is an artist and curator who spent her formative art years in NYC (1980 -2000). She now resides in Texas. A recognized installation artist and painter, she is the recipient of many national awards, including two Pollock-Krasner awards, An Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant, an AICA award, and Two National Endowment for the Arts Visiting Artist Fellowships. Benitez is a two-time MacDowell Colony fellow. She is also a Yaddo, Virginia for the Creative Arts, Ucross and Altos De Chavon fellow.
​
Benitez is currently represented by the Hunt Gallery,Slate Gray Gallery. and Wally Workman Gallery. Her work is in many private and public collections including The Resolute Hospital, Lackland Dental/Lackland Air Force, The McNay Art Museum, UTSA, Robert B. Green Pavilion, South Texas College, Texas Tech Museum, etc.
​
She is the president and founder of The Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association—GAGA— a ten-year-old nonprofit serving women artists. Helping to further her members' creative voices, Benitez has curated over thirty, thematic GAGA exhibitions, showing her member's work in prestigious venues: The Nave Museum,Southwest School of Art, The Carver Community Cultural Center, The Louise Underwood Hopkins Center for Art, etc.
​
​
For more information please see
​
​
​
