Ben Mahmoud

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Ben Mahmoud (b. 1935) is a contemporary American artist.

[edit] Life and work

Mahmoud was born and grew up in Charleston, West Virginia. For most of his professional career, he taught at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, where he also kept his art studio. He is now emeritus at NIU. Painting has been his most successful medium, attracting critical acclaim and commercial success, but he has also worked in other media, including print making, photography, and sculpture. In 1972 he established an affiliation with the Sonia Zaks Gallery in Chicago that would last thirty years. He currently remains affiliated with the Patricia Rozvar galleries in Washington. Mahmoud has exhibited his work at galleries and museums throughout the American Midwest, and also in Washington, Holland, and Germany. His work has been added to over 25 permanent, public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Brooklyn Museum. He currently lives in New Port Richey, Florida, where his fascination with the surrounding flora has influenced a growing collection of sculptures he calls The Florida Series.