Siona Benjamin

Siona Benjamin is a painter from Mumbai, now living in the US. Her work reflects her background of being brought up Jewish in a Hindu and Muslim India. She has a MFA in painting and a second MFA in Theater set design. She has exhibited her work inthe US, Europe and Asia. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2011 to India and a second Fulbright in 2017 to Israel. Her work has been featured in: The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Financial Times, The Jewish Week, The Boston Globe, Art New England, Art and Antiques, ArtNews, The Times of India, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel and several others. A documentary was made on her work, entitled Blue Like Me: The Art of Siona Benjamin. She also illustrated I Am Hava, The Blue Butterfly of Cochin, On a Chariot of Fire, and Haggadah Shel Erev Rav: The Mixed Multitude Haggadah. She lives in Montclair, NJ.