Born in Arizona, Fred Bendheim has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY since 1983. As a teen-ager, he apprenticed with the surrealist painter, Phillip Curtis. Later, Mr. Bendheim studied art with Joseph Piasentin at Pomona College and with Roland Reese at The Claremont Graduate School. He has had numerous one-person shows and his works are in collections world-wide. His commissions include two fountain sculptures for Frank Lloyd Wright buildings and paintings for some of the finest hotels in the world. As well as painting, he has made: drawings, prints, collages, sculpture, illustrations for William Blake’s The Tygre, and has written numerous articles about art for the British journal The Lancet. Although his travels have taken him throughout the world, simply working in his studio everyday has been the greatest adventure. He lives with the set designer, Sarah Edkins, and their daughter, Gemma.

© 2003 Fred Bendheim