Pamela Benham studied painting in New York City at the Art Students’ League under a Ford Foundation Grant and a Reginald Marsh Scholarship. She graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art with a BFA. Moving to Paris, she studied at the Ecolé des Beaux-Arts for two years with Pierre Carron. Other influential teachers were Robert Beverly Hale, Wolf Kahn, Dory Ashton, Paul Resika, and Stephen Posen.

Benham is a recipient of an ARTIST SPACE Grant and an Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Grant. She was also awarded artist residencies at the Skowhegan School in Maine, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Parson’s Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic, and Colgate University in Hamilton, NY.

She has exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, including the Musée d’Art Moderne and the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. She has had over twenty solo exhibitions in galleries in New York, including the Miller, Susan Schreiber, and Jayne Baum Galleries. Benham has had thirty exhibitions in the last two years, including at the Monmouth Museum in New Jersey, the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut, the Attleboro Arts Museum in Massachusetts, and the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in California.