Daniel van Benthuysen

Huntington, New York, USA

 

BORN 

St. Louis, Missouri, currently residing in Huntington, Long Island, New York

EDUCATION

BA  -  Tulane University, major in Studio Art, minor in Art History

MA -  Comparative Arts & Culture, graduated with distinction, Hofstra University

REPRESENTATION

Upstream Gallery, 8 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

 

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, & GRANTS, ETC.

2023­ - Artist-in-Residence, Svalbard Art Center (High Arctic), Norway, June

2021 - Artist-in-Residence, AARK, Korpo Island, Finland, September

2019 - Long Island Artists – Best in Show, 59th juried regional exhibit, Art League LI

2019 - Artist in Residence, The Fish Factory, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland, September

2016 - Artist-in-Residence, La Porte Peinte, Noyers-sur-Serein, France, August

2015 - Artists on Site, 25 years of Artists' Residencies at Weir Farm Nat’l Historic Site,

2014 - Artist-in-Residence, Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton CT, August

2014 - Jurors’ Award, See the Light, nat’l juried show, Art Museum, Attleboro, MA

2013 - Best in Show, Members' Juried Show, Mills Pond House, Dec 6 - 29

2013 - Best in Show, Artist’s Work Is Never Done, Mills Pond House, Dec 6 - 29

2012 - Show Award, Home, juried regional exhibit, Front Street Gallery, Patterson, NY

2010 - Classical Life Drawing Studio, book includes my drawings, Published by the ASL of NY

2007 - Don Donaldson Memorial Award, Salmagundi Club of New York

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Instructor, watercolor, Huntington School District, Adult Education 2022-Present

Adjunct Prof. Visual Journalism, School of Communication, Hofstra University 2015-2020

Asst. Prof. Visual Journalism, School of Communication, Hofstra University 2008-2015

Director of Design, Newsday, 2004-2007; Senior Art Director, Newsday, 1978-2004  

*While at Newsday I was a Senior Editor and Director of Design, shaping 5 of the 8 Pulitzers the newspaper won during a 16-year period.

Monitor (teaching assistant) Art Students League of New York, 2008-2014

 

RECENT EXHIBITS

2022

The Other Side of Summer, Gallery 18, Bronx, New York City, NY

Hanging Around, group show, Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY, March

Influences, group show, Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY, February

The Long Island Landscape, group show, Mills Pond House, Smithtown, NY, February

69th Annual Members' Exhibit, Art League of Long Island, Deer Park, NY, March

2021

Artist-in-Residence, AARK, Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo, Finland, September

Icelandic Sojourn, Fifth solo show, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, April

Land, Sea & Sky, Honorable Mention, Juried Exhibit, Art League Long Island, Jan.-Feb.

2020

Art of the Pandemic, Online Magazine, Summer

Contemporary Realism, National Juried Exhibit, Mills Pond House, Smithtown NY, September

Group Show, Upstream Gallery, Hastings, NY, December

2019

Artist in Residence, The Fish Factory, Stöðvarfjörður Iceland, September

American Landscape, national juried show, Maryland Federation of Art, August

Light, National juried show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY, July

Recent Landscapes, 4th solo show, Upstream Gallery, Hastings, NY

River Arts Studio Tour, Group Exhibit, Upstream Gallery, Hastings, NY

Long Island Artists – Best in Show, 64th annual regional exhibit, Art League of LI

 

2018

Art Elevated, Street Banners, One of 88 artists chosen from 22 countries to exhibit in Manhattan

Movie credit – one dozen paintings used in filming, I Think We’re Alone Now

Quotidian Beauty, juried regional show, Art League of Long Island, July

2017 Art of the Northeast, juried show, Silvermine Art Guild, Norwalk, CT, summer

Quotidian Beauty, juried show, Art League of Long Island, July

Paintings from Burgundy, solo show, Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, June

Conversations, exhibiting with my brother, group show, Upstream Gallery, March