The Artistic Journey of Benjamin Casiano
Benjamin Casiano, a native New Yorker, is an accomplished creative director, designer, and painter. He earned his BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and has always considered painting his true passion. Influenced by renowned masters globally, his work combines elements of neo/pop-cubism and expressionism. The women in his life have played a crucial role, inspiring him to pay tribute to them through his paintings. Despite a tendency toward geometric and abstract shapes, a recurring theme in his artwork is the one-eyed figure, symbolizing his alter ego and serving as a self-portrait of his subconscious. Casiano has shared, “I'm visually impaired from one eye, but the irony is I was painting figures with a single eye years before losing vision. Perhaps some kind of foreshadowing.” Despite this challenge, he has never allowed it to hinder his passion and dedication to art. His pieces have been showcased in galleries across the U.S. and Europe and have been acquired by art museums in Chicago and South Korea. His exhibitions span various cities, including New York City, Philadelphia, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Paris, and Oudewater, Holland. Casiano's ambition is straightforward: to introduce something unique in modern-day culture, one painting and one exhibition at a time.
