Benjamin Parks

Benjamin Parks (b. 1978, Fairfax, Missouri) is a Kansas City based artist whose primary focus is painting large-scale portraits and figurative work. He is also involved in illustrations, interactive installations, music, printmaking and sculpture. As a visual artist, he has shown many original works in galleries and art spaces throughout the country, including the Leedy Voulkous Art Center, the Foundry Arts Centre, the Lawrence Arts Center, the Cee Flat Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, the KCAC, and the Hilliard Gallery. Parks’ paintings, sculptures and interactive pieces have been commissioned for private collections throughout the country. Parks has also performed at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.

Kansas City Art Institue

2020 Popup Show, Art Collective, Bentonville, AR
2020 Solo Exhibition: Contemporary Show, Sager Braudis, Columbia, MO
2020 Solo Exhibition: The Eyes, The Bunker, Kansas City, MO
2020 ConTEXT III, Foundry Arts Center, St Louis, MO
2020 13th Annual Figurative Show, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2020 Solo Exhibition: Ceremony, Seven1Five Art space, Kansas City, MO
2019 Solo Exhibition: Portraits, Potter Gallery at MWSU, St Joseph, MO
2019 Solo Exhibition: Shunned, Gallery at Hotel Indigo, Kansas City, MO
2019 Look Me in the Eye, The Epsten Gallery, Leawood, KS
2019 Art From Here, Smalter Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2019 Contemporary Figurative Art Show, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2019 Figurative Works II, Foundry Arts Center, St. Louis, MO
2018 Paying Tribute to the Muse, Vanessa Lacy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2018 Solo Exhibition, Fraction, Kansas City, MO
2018 Reality, Leedy Voulkos, Kansas City, MO
2018 The Present Moment, Vanessa Lacy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2018 Regional Exhibition, Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO
2018 Human Form Exhibition, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2017 Secret Salon, Leedy Voulkos, Kansas City, MO
2017 Interactive Collaboration: ‘Seasons’, Lawrence Arts Cente...