Beyond Borders: The Art of Siona Benjamin
June 17 – September 25, 2022
The identity of Indian-American-Jewish artist Siona Benjamin is layered and multifaceted, just like her artwork.
Raised as a Jew and member of the Bene Israel community in a largely Hindu and Muslim Mumbai, she attended Catholic and Zoroastrian schools before moving to the US. Benjamin’s transcultural view has been shaped by diverse, complex experiences and is inspired by history and mythology, as illustrated by the captivating characters and symbolism which populate her pieces.
Recent Exhibits
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime: Jewish Artists of the WPA
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
To Paint is to Live: The Artwork of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Luba Lukova: Designing Justice
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
The Girl in the Diary
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Inescapable: The Life and Legacy of Harry Houdini
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Chagall’s Le Cirque
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Blacklist: Hollywood’s Red Scare Programs
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Stitching Histories From the Holocaust
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Allied in the Fight: Jews, Blacks and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Moments & Markers: An Adolph Rosenblatt Retrospective
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Fabric of Survival: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Once & Again: Still Lifes by Beth Lipman
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Project Mah Jongg
Jewish Museum Milwaukee