Lisa Benson

Lisa Benson (born 1966) is a New Zealand artist. Her work is held in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Career Benson studied painting and photography at the Waikato Institute of Technology, in the Media Arts centre in Hamilton, New Zealand, where she has tutored since 1999. She traveled to Melbourne Institute of Technology to complete a master's degree in 2000, under the guidance of David Thomas.

Benson works mainly with photographic processes and equipment, interested in how time and light create images. Exhibited with Nine Dragon Heads at the Sarajevo Winter Festival in 2009. Still, RAMP, Hamilton, 2009.

Awards and residencies

2007 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Merit Award for her work Mountain Landscape, Chancellor Dome, Fox Glacier June 2006. This award is organised by the Waikato Society of Arts Inc. Finalist in the Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, 2008. Recipient of Red Gate Gallery residency in Beijing, 2009.