BIO

Paulette Bensignor is a contemporary hyper-realist painter whose work has brought international acclaim.

 Through the use of multiple techniques such as painting, printmaking, and sculpture, she creates work that combines abstract forms with realist shapes and stirs memories, secrets and symbolic meanings.

The senior Curator at the Guggenheim Museum, Diane Wollman, described her work as “An example of an extremely original treatment of the landscape. The work sets itself apart from other artists by using many layers of lines and abstract forms.”

 Bensignor has shown her work since 1966 in prominent galleries in the United States, in public spaces, and in international exhibitions. She was included in many shows over the years at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Pennsylvania State Museum, and the Japan International Exhibits.

In 2024, she won first prize for outstanding artist at the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 127th annual show, juried by Paul Efstathiou, director of Hollis Taggart Gallery. Bensignor has also been featured in Cosmopolitan magazine and the New York Times.

 Awarded scholarships to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, she earned a B.F.A. in 1970. She went on to pursue graduate work at Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, and the University of Paris, France.