American Art Collaborative

Painter; Los Angeles, California and Hawaii. Bengston was born in Kansas in 1934. He attended Los Angeles City College, California College of Arts and Crafts, and Los Angeles County Art Institute. He originally studied ceramics with Peter Voulkos. He had his first one man exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in 1958 and has since exhibited at a variety of galleries across the country, as well as on a regular basis at the James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles. In 1988, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston organized a major retrospective. Bengston has also held various teaching positions. He was also the founder of Artist Studio, a a gallery which showed primarily his own work and that of Ed Moses, Ken Price, and Ed Ruscha.