// Bio & Résumé
Petrônio Bendito is an inter-media artist, visual communications designer, color researcher, digital culturalist and an Associate Professor and Area Representative of Visual Communications Design in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University (2001~). He has taught art and design disciplines at Northern Illinois University (USA), DePaul University (USA), a Summer program at the American University of Paris (France) and lead Color Design Methods workshops in Universities in Brazil, France and in the United States.
Originally from Brazil, Bendito earned Doctoral (Ed.D.) and M.F.A. degrees from Northern Illinois University and a B.F.A. from Central Michigan University. He also studied at the Federal University of Paraíba, in Brazil and Purdue University. His primary research interests are visual communications design theory and principles, visual literacy, computational color design methods, and digital esthetics. He has worked extensively in interdisciplinary projects and has collaborated with musicians, dancers, choreographers, a light designer, mathematicians and computer scientists.
Bendito has exhibited, screened, performed, and presented his artworks and research projects throughout the United States and abroad in Brazil, China, Bulgaria, North Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.
Bendito has participated in exhibitions juried or curated by prominent cultural leaders, including Ed Paschke (artist, professor); Matthew Drutt, during his tenure (~) as Senior Curator for the Menil Collections in Houston, Texas; Eleanor Heartney (writer, ~Contributing Editor, Art in America magazine and contributor to ARTnews, New York Times, New Art Examiner, and the Washington Post; Michael Rooks, (~Assistant Curator, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art); Leesa Fanning (~Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art); and Amy Cappellazzo (~Head of International Contemporary Art, Christie’s Auction House, New York); He also participated in several national and international invitational exhibitions, including those curated by Lilia Lamas (currently Curator and Exhibition Manager at Florence Biennale and Curator at Sixpack Projects, CA), and Jennifer Frias (currently Associate Curator, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery).
Bendito's works has been cited in interdisciplinary publications, such as Image and Imagery (text by Elizabeth Mix; Corrado Federici (Ed.), 2005, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (2005); Les entreprises Critiques (Rose Marie Barrientos, et al., 2008, Cité du Design, Paris); Consortium, No.100 in the article “Bridging The Math-Art Divide” (Sarah Williams and David Pier) by the COMAP, Inc. (Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications) Petronio Bendito: Digital Color, Algorithm and Expression (monograph: essays by art historians Catherine Dossin and Elizabeth Mix (2014, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Indiana). His works have also appeared in exhibitions catalogs and academic papers.
At Purdue University his work, research and collaborations have been featured in “People, Planet, Preservation/Office of the Vice President for Research Annual Report, 2011-2012” and “Transformation: Innovation at the Nexus of Humans, Nature and Cyberscience/Office of the Vice President for Research Annual Report, 2009-2010” by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Think magazine, published by the School of Liberal Arts.
Bendito is the recipient of several art awards including Best of Show/Digital Printmaking (2013), Indiana Arts Commission Grant (2014), Creative Achievement Award/IVLA (2007), Bank One Purchase Award (2004), Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education Award (2004), Puffin Foundation Artist Grant Award (2003), 15ht AVA Juried Annual Exhibition Award(2002) and several grants and awards by Purdue University both for his teaching, research and art projects.
Bendito is a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Visual Literacy Association, a former contributing editor for a Media-N, a founding member of the New Media Caucus, and a current reviewer for the Journal of Visual Literacy. Bendito has published over 25 academic papers and proceedings featured in. He is the author of Website Design (2006) and is the Co-Editor of the Selected Readings of the Information Design International Conference (2009) and a chapter in Selected Reading of The 4th Information Design International Conference: Theories, Methods and Applications.
On local level, Bendito is an advocate of Purdue University interdepartmental collaborations and community based-projects, such as his Scholarship of Engagement Project with local dancers exploring the intersection of dance and technology mediated by a technique he labeled “Digital Kinetic Color Traces.” He co-curated an art and technology exhibition for Purdue Galleries: Digital Concentrate, and art and math exhibitions for the Department of Computer Science. He is a member of West Lafayette's Public Arts Team and visionary and instrumental founding member of the Spectrum Art Gallery of the Pride Lafayette Community Center in Indiana. His collaborative projects have been featured in two TEDx talks (TEDx PurdueU and TEDx Lafayette). He is a member of Double Helix Collective, which has presented works locally at Fountain Gallery and nationally at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY. His Natural Disaster Color exhibition was the theme of a solo exhibition at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette and accompanied by an artist monograph reviewing his professional artistic practice.
Originally from Brazil, Bendito earned Doctoral (Ed.D.) and M.F.A. degrees from Northern Illinois University and a B.F.A. from Central Michigan University. He also studied at the Federal University of Paraíba, in Brazil and Purdue University. His primary research interests are visual communications design theory and principles, visual literacy, computational color design methods, and digital esthetics. He has worked extensively in interdisciplinary projects and has collaborated with musicians, dancers, choreographers, a light designer, mathematicians and computer scientists.
Bendito has exhibited, screened, performed, and presented his artworks and research projects throughout the United States and abroad in Brazil, China, Bulgaria, North Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.
Bendito has participated in exhibitions juried or curated by prominent cultural leaders, including Ed Paschke (artist, professor); Matthew Drutt, during his tenure (~) as Senior Curator for the Menil Collections in Houston, Texas; Eleanor Heartney (writer, ~Contributing Editor, Art in America magazine and contributor to ARTnews, New York Times, New Art Examiner, and the Washington Post; Michael Rooks, (~Assistant Curator, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art); Leesa Fanning (~Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art); and Amy Cappellazzo (~Head of International Contemporary Art, Christie’s Auction House, New York); He also participated in several national and international invitational exhibitions, including those curated by Lilia Lamas (currently Curator and Exhibition Manager at Florence Biennale and Curator at Sixpack Projects, CA), and Jennifer Frias (currently Associate Curator, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery).
Bendito's works has been cited in interdisciplinary publications, such as Image and Imagery (text by Elizabeth Mix; Corrado Federici (Ed.), 2005, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (2005); Les entreprises Critiques (Rose Marie Barrientos, et al., 2008, Cité du Design, Paris); Consortium, No.100 in the article “Bridging The Math-Art Divide” (Sarah Williams and David Pier) by the COMAP, Inc. (Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications) Petronio Bendito: Digital Color, Algorithm and Expression (monograph: essays by art historians Catherine Dossin and Elizabeth Mix (2014, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Indiana). His works have also appeared in exhibitions catalogs and academic papers.
At Purdue University his work, research and collaborations have been featured in “People, Planet, Preservation/Office of the Vice President for Research Annual Report, 2011-2012” and “Transformation: Innovation at the Nexus of Humans, Nature and Cyberscience/Office of the Vice President for Research Annual Report, 2009-2010” by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Think magazine, published by the School of Liberal Arts.
Bendito is the recipient of several art awards including Best of Show/Digital Printmaking (2013), Indiana Arts Commission Grant (2014), Creative Achievement Award/IVLA (2007), Bank One Purchase Award (2004), Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education Award (2004), Puffin Foundation Artist Grant Award (2003), 15ht AVA Juried Annual Exhibition Award(2002) and several grants and awards by Purdue University both for his teaching, research and art projects.
Bendito is a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Visual Literacy Association, a former contributing editor for a Media-N, a founding member of the New Media Caucus, and a current reviewer for the Journal of Visual Literacy. Bendito has published over 25 academic papers and proceedings featured in. He is the author of Website Design (2006) and is the Co-Editor of the Selected Readings of the Information Design International Conference (2009) and a chapter in Selected Reading of The 4th Information Design International Conference: Theories, Methods and Applications.
On local level, Bendito is an advocate of Purdue University interdepartmental collaborations and community based-projects, such as his Scholarship of Engagement Project with local dancers exploring the intersection of dance and technology mediated by a technique he labeled “Digital Kinetic Color Traces.” He co-curated an art and technology exhibition for Purdue Galleries: Digital Concentrate, and art and math exhibitions for the Department of Computer Science. He is a member of West Lafayette's Public Arts Team and visionary and instrumental founding member of the Spectrum Art Gallery of the Pride Lafayette Community Center in Indiana. His collaborative projects have been featured in two TEDx talks (TEDx PurdueU and TEDx Lafayette). He is a member of Double Helix Collective, which has presented works locally at Fountain Gallery and nationally at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY. His Natural Disaster Color exhibition was the theme of a solo exhibition at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette and accompanied by an artist monograph reviewing his professional artistic practice.
// Selected Exhibitions/Performances/Screenings
2014 Petronio Bendito: Selections from the Natural Disaster Color Series (solo). Central Features. Albuquerque, NM, USA
2014 Bronx Latin American Art Biennial (Double Helix Collective Performance) | Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
2014 Petronio Bendito: Natural Disaster Color (solo) | Art Museum of Great Lafayette, IN, USA
2014 Petronio Bendito—Color Code: Algorithms and Expressions (solo). Butler University/Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, Indiana, USA.
2014 Punto Y Raya (screening) | Reykavik Concert Hall, Iceland
2013 Lightscape Texla_XYZ | TEDx PurdueU, IN, USA
2013 Quartet | EMU Art Center, Cyprus
2012 Liquid Identities | Venice Ed., Italy
2011 “Dreamscapes | Study.” III International Seminar About Dance, Theater and Performance, UFBA, Salvador, Brazil
2011 PLAY+TIME. Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, IN, USA
2010 FENART (Invitational - National Festival of Art), Brazil
2010 MetaDataPhile: The Collapse of Visual Information. California State University Fullerton Begovich Gallery, Fullerton, CA, USA
2010 AUDO (Sound/motion responsive installation), Purdue University, IN, USA
2010 Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Purdue University, IN, USA
2010 Busan International Design Festival, Korea
2009 Punto Y Raya Art Festival (screening), Spain
2008 Daegu IAFF World Championship in Athletics Poster Exhibition, Korea
2007 Place, Time, Space and Memory: Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Purdue University, USA
2007 Color and Design International Pôster Exhibition, Korea
2006 FILE 2005/International Festival of Electronic Language (Travel Exhibition), Brazil
2005 XVI Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2005 FILE 2005/International Festival of Electronic Language, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2004 National 2004 Biennial XXIII, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, GA, USA
2004 VROOOM...Art in Motion, Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery, IN, USA
2003 20” x 20” x 20”: A Compact Competition, Louisiana State University, LA, USA
2003 18th Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, MO, USA
2003 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Immanence, Paris
2003 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Im Podewil, Berlin
2003 Chicago Solution Show, Gallery on Lake Judith Racht, Chicago, USA
2002 October International Exhibition, Armory Art Center, FL, USA
2002 College Art Association (screening, panel), Philadelphia, PA
2002 AVA 15th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, TN, USA
2002 IDEAS - Interactive Digital Environments, Arts & Storytelling. Indiana University, IN, USA
2002 AVA (Association for Visual Artists) Juried Annual Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, USA
2014 Bronx Latin American Art Biennial (Double Helix Collective Performance) | Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
2014 Petronio Bendito: Natural Disaster Color (solo) | Art Museum of Great Lafayette, IN, USA
2014 Petronio Bendito—Color Code: Algorithms and Expressions (solo). Butler University/Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, Indiana, USA.
2014 Punto Y Raya (screening) | Reykavik Concert Hall, Iceland
2013 Lightscape Texla_XYZ | TEDx PurdueU, IN, USA
2013 Quartet | EMU Art Center, Cyprus
2012 Liquid Identities | Venice Ed., Italy
2011 “Dreamscapes | Study.” III International Seminar About Dance, Theater and Performance, UFBA, Salvador, Brazil
2011 PLAY+TIME. Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, IN, USA
2010 FENART (Invitational - National Festival of Art), Brazil
2010 MetaDataPhile: The Collapse of Visual Information. California State University Fullerton Begovich Gallery, Fullerton, CA, USA
2010 AUDO (Sound/motion responsive installation), Purdue University, IN, USA
2010 Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Purdue University, IN, USA
2010 Busan International Design Festival, Korea
2009 Punto Y Raya Art Festival (screening), Spain
2008 Daegu IAFF World Championship in Athletics Poster Exhibition, Korea
2007 Place, Time, Space and Memory: Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Purdue University, USA
2007 Color and Design International Pôster Exhibition, Korea
2006 FILE 2005/International Festival of Electronic Language (Travel Exhibition), Brazil
2005 XVI Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2005 FILE 2005/International Festival of Electronic Language, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2004 National 2004 Biennial XXIII, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, GA, USA
2004 VROOOM...Art in Motion, Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery, IN, USA
2003 20” x 20” x 20”: A Compact Competition, Louisiana State University, LA, USA
2003 18th Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, MO, USA
2003 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Immanence, Paris
2003 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Im Podewil, Berlin
2003 Chicago Solution Show, Gallery on Lake Judith Racht, Chicago, USA
2002 October International Exhibition, Armory Art Center, FL, USA
2002 College Art Association (screening, panel), Philadelphia, PA
2002 AVA 15th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, TN, USA
2002 IDEAS - Interactive Digital Environments, Arts & Storytelling. Indiana University, IN, USA
2002 AVA (Association for Visual Artists) Juried Annual Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, USA
// Honors
2014 Best of Show | Digital Printmaking Art, National Exhibition | Lowell Telecommunications Corporation
2013 TEDx Presenter (in conjunction with the PETRONIO BENDITO Collective), Purdue University
2012 Indiana Arts Commission Grant
2007 Creative Achievement Award, International Visual Literacy Association
2005 Visual and Performing Arts Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University
2004 Bank One Purchase Award, Bank One
2004 Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education Award
2004 Digital Content Development Grant, ITaP, Purdue University
2003 Braden-Beauchamp Visual Literacy Award
2003 Puffin Foundation Artists Grant Award
2002 National 15th AVA Juried Annual Exhibition/Show Award
2013 TEDx Presenter (in conjunction with the PETRONIO BENDITO Collective), Purdue University
2012 Indiana Arts Commission Grant
2007 Creative Achievement Award, International Visual Literacy Association
2005 Visual and Performing Arts Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University
2004 Bank One Purchase Award, Bank One
2004 Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education Award
2004 Digital Content Development Grant, ITaP, Purdue University
2003 Braden-Beauchamp Visual Literacy Award
2003 Puffin Foundation Artists Grant Award
2002 National 15th AVA Juried Annual Exhibition/Show Award
// Online Presence
petroniobendito.com
naturaldisastercolor.net
youtube.com/user/ART2GOdotMOBI
linkedin.com/pub/petronio-bendito/35/a11/654
facebook.com/petronio.bendito
facebook.com/everything.about.color
instagram.com/petronio.bendito.colors
rhizome.org/profile/petroniobendito
naturaldisastercolor.net
youtube.com/user/ART2GOdotMOBI
linkedin.com/pub/petronio-bendito/35/a11/654
facebook.com/petronio.bendito
facebook.com/everything.about.color
instagram.com/petronio.bendito.colors
rhizome.org/profile/petroniobendito
// Requests
A complete copy of my CV is available upon request.
