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Sylvia Benitez is the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Foundation awards: 1997 and 2000, an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant: 2011, an AICA award for her exterior sculpture installation Puerto Rico: 1997, two National Endowment for the Arts Visiting Artist Fellowships: Abington Art Center, PA 2008, and Escuela des Arte Plasticas, San Juan PR 2001. Other fellowships include the MacDowell Colony: 1984 & 1985, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts: 1999, Sculpture Space, 1998, The Vermont Studio Center, 2003, the Ucross Foundation, 1993, Manhattan Graphics Center 1991, Yaddo, 1984 and Altos De Chavon, Dominican Republic 1984. She is the founder and president of The Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association. gagaart.org
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