Ben Kamihira

Ben Kamihara - Born in Yakima, Washington, March 16, 1925.

Studied at Art Institute of Pittsburgh, PA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA (1948-1952).

Awarded Cresson Traveling Scholarship, 1951; J. Henry Schiedt Traveling Scholarship, 1952.

First Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design, 1952; Louis C. Tiffany Memorial Scholarship, 1952 and 1958; Lippincott Prize Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1958; John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955 and

1956; First Benjamin Altman Prize, National Academy of Design, 1958 and 1962; First Prize, Wilkie-Buick Regional Exhibition, 1960; Second A.W. Clarke Prize and silver medal, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1961;

Johnson Prize, Silvermine Annual, Silvermine, CT, 1961; First Chautauqua Prize, New York, 1962; Summer Foundation Purchase Prize, Whitney Museum, 1960; Laura Slobe Memorial Prize, Purchase, Childe Hassam Fund, National

Institute of Arts and Letters, 1965.

Represented in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Whitney Museum of American Art; Ringling Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Colorado Springs Art Center, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Detroit

Institute of the Arts, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: evening classes 1952-60, day classes 1960-1980.