Short Biographical Info
Petrônio Bendito is an Associate Professor of Visual Communications Design in the Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance at Purdue University. He is an inter-media artist, visual designer, color researcher, and digital culturalist. His primary research interests are in computational color design methods and digital esthetics. He collaborates with musicians, dancers, choreographers, mathematicians and computer scientist and has exhibited internationally. His awards include: Best of Show/Digital Printmaking (2013), Indiana Arts Commission Grant (2014), Creative Achievement Award/IVLA (2007), Bank One Purchase Award (2004), Puffin Foundation Artist Grant Award (2003), 15ht AVA Juried Annual Exhibition Award (2002) and several grants and awards by Purdue University both for his teaching, research and art projects.
Petrônio Bendito is an Associate Professor of Visual Communications Design in the Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance at Purdue University. He is an inter-media artist, visual designer, color researcher, and digital culturalist. His primary research interests are in computational color design methods and digital esthetics. He collaborates with musicians, dancers, choreographers, mathematicians and computer scientist and has exhibited internationally. His awards include: Best of Show/Digital Printmaking (2013), Indiana Arts Commission Grant (2014), Creative Achievement Award/IVLA (2007), Bank One Purchase Award (2004), Puffin Foundation Artist Grant Award (2003), 15ht AVA Juried Annual Exhibition Award (2002) and several grants and awards by Purdue University both for his teaching, research and art projects.
Scholarship and Creative Endeavors Overview
- Investigation of digital esthetics discourse, most specifically related to digital color (2005~)
- Collaborative art and design projects both nationally and internationally (i.e., dancers, musicians, software programmers) and emerging interest on curatorial work on art and technology (2002~)
- Visual literacy research related to visual communications design and new media arts (2002~)
Selected Exhibitions
2018 BRIDGES Stockholm - Mathematical Art Exhibition, Sweeden.
2018 Artistic Journey Across Time, Place (four-person show). Indianapolis International Airport, Indianapolis, IN.
2018 Petronio Bendito : Boilertown (Mural Design Award), City of West Lafayette, IN.
2016 8th Annual - 2016 - Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
2016 Video Projection: 200 Candles with Lafayette Symphony Orchestra Concert, Long Center for the Performing Arts, Lafayette, IN
2016 Indiana Now 2016: The Bicentenial, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Lafayette, IN
2016 On or About: Rockwell Kent, Fountain Gallery/Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
2016 Xworks (Dance Concert, live visual projection) , Dance Studio Theater/Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2015 Creative Challenge / International, South Korea
2015 Petronio Bendito: Colors of Resilience, UNAM/National Autonomous University of Mexico, Chicago, IL
2014 2nd Annual Juried Smart Device Show: Imagine This, Brooklyn Waterfront Art Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, New York, NY
2014 Reykjavík Visual Music/Punto y Raya Video Festival, Reykjavík , Iceland.
2014 Mathematical Art Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2014 Petronio Bendito: Selections from the Natural Disaster Color Series (solo). Central Features. Albuquerque, NM
2014 Petronio Bendito: Selections from the Natural Disaster Color Series (solo). Central Features. Albuquerque, NM, USA
2014 Bronx Latin American Art Biennial (Double Helix Collective Performance) | Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
2014 Petronio Bendito: Natural Disaster Color (solo) | Art Museum of Great Lafayette, IN, USA
2014 Petronio Bendito—Color Code (solo). Butler University/Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, Indiana, USA.
2014 Punto Y Raya (screening) | Reykavik Concert Hall, Iceland
2013 Lightscape Texla_XYZ | TEDx PurdueU, IN, USA
2013 Quartet | EMU Art Center, Cyprus
2012 Liquid Identities | Venice Ed., Italy
2011 “Dreamscapes | Study.” III International Seminar About Dance, Theater and Performance, UFBA, Salvador, Brazil
2011 PLAY+TIME. Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, IN, USA
2010 FENART (Invitational - National Festival of Art), Brazil
2010 MetaDataPhile: The Collapse of Visual Information. California State University Fullerton Begovich Gallery, Fullerton, CA, USA
2010 AUDO (Sound/motion responsive installation), Purdue University, IN, USA
2010 Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Purdue University, IN
2010 Busan International Design Festival, Korea
2009 Punto Y Raya Art Festival (screening), Spain
2008 Daegu IAFF World Championship in Athletics Pôster Exhibition, Korea
2007 Place,Time, Space and Memory: Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Purdue University*
2007 Color and Design International Pôster Exhibition, Korea
2006 FILE 2005/International Festival of Electronic Language (Travel Exhibition), Brazil
2005 XVI Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2005 FILE 2005/International Festival of Electronic Language, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2004 National 2004 Biennial XXIII, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, GA
2004 VROOOM...Art in Motion, Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery, IN
2003 20”x 20”x 20”: A Compact Competition, Louisiana State University, LA
2003 18th Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, MO
2003 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Immanence, Paris
2003 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Im Podewil, Berlin
2003 Chicago Solution Show, Gallery on Lake Judith Racht, Chicago
2002 October International Exhibition, Armory Art Center, FL
2002 AVA 15th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, TN.
2002 IDEAS - Interactive Digital Environments, Arts & Storytelling. University of Indiana, IN
2002 AVA (Association for Visual Artists) Juried Annual Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
2018 BRIDGES Stockholm - Mathematical Art Exhibition, Sweeden.
2018 Artistic Journey Across Time, Place (four-person show). Indianapolis International Airport, Indianapolis, IN.
2018 Petronio Bendito : Boilertown (Mural Design Award), City of West Lafayette, IN.
2016 8th Annual - 2016 - Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
2016 Video Projection: 200 Candles with Lafayette Symphony Orchestra Concert, Long Center for the Performing Arts, Lafayette, IN
2016 Indiana Now 2016: The Bicentenial, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Lafayette, IN
2016 On or About: Rockwell Kent, Fountain Gallery/Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
2016 Xworks (Dance Concert, live visual projection) , Dance Studio Theater/Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2015 Creative Challenge / International, South Korea
2015 Petronio Bendito: Colors of Resilience, UNAM/National Autonomous University of Mexico, Chicago, IL
2014 2nd Annual Juried Smart Device Show: Imagine This, Brooklyn Waterfront Art Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, New York, NY
2014 Reykjavík Visual Music/Punto y Raya Video Festival, Reykjavík , Iceland.
2014 Mathematical Art Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2014 Petronio Bendito: Selections from the Natural Disaster Color Series (solo). Central Features. Albuquerque, NM
2014 Petronio Bendito: Selections from the Natural Disaster Color Series (solo). Central Features. Albuquerque, NM, USA
2014 Bronx Latin American Art Biennial (Double Helix Collective Performance) | Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
2014 Petronio Bendito: Natural Disaster Color (solo) | Art Museum of Great Lafayette, IN, USA
2014 Petronio Bendito—Color Code (solo). Butler University/Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, Indiana, USA.
2014 Punto Y Raya (screening) | Reykavik Concert Hall, Iceland
2013 Lightscape Texla_XYZ | TEDx PurdueU, IN, USA
2013 Quartet | EMU Art Center, Cyprus
2012 Liquid Identities | Venice Ed., Italy
2011 “Dreamscapes | Study.” III International Seminar About Dance, Theater and Performance, UFBA, Salvador, Brazil
2011 PLAY+TIME. Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, IN, USA
2010 FENART (Invitational - National Festival of Art), Brazil
2010 MetaDataPhile: The Collapse of Visual Information. California State University Fullerton Begovich Gallery, Fullerton, CA, USA
2010 AUDO (Sound/motion responsive installation), Purdue University, IN, USA
2010 Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Purdue University, IN
2010 Busan International Design Festival, Korea
2009 Punto Y Raya Art Festival (screening), Spain
2008 Daegu IAFF World Championship in Athletics Pôster Exhibition, Korea
2007 Place,Time, Space and Memory: Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Purdue University*
2007 Color and Design International Pôster Exhibition, Korea
2006 FILE 2005/International Festival of Electronic Language (Travel Exhibition), Brazil
2005 XVI Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2005 FILE 2005/International Festival of Electronic Language, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2004 National 2004 Biennial XXIII, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, GA
2004 VROOOM...Art in Motion, Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery, IN
2003 20”x 20”x 20”: A Compact Competition, Louisiana State University, LA
2003 18th Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, MO
2003 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Immanence, Paris
2003 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Im Podewil, Berlin
2003 Chicago Solution Show, Gallery on Lake Judith Racht, Chicago
2002 October International Exhibition, Armory Art Center, FL
2002 AVA 15th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, TN.
2002 IDEAS - Interactive Digital Environments, Arts & Storytelling. University of Indiana, IN
2002 AVA (Association for Visual Artists) Juried Annual Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN