María José Benvenuto is an artist living and working in North Head, Sydney Harbour National Park, Sydney, Australia.
"For me, painting is entering a trance — where gesture, color, and movement become pure presence. Each work unfolds from a free impulse, finding balance between intuition and awareness. Forms drift between energy and stillness: maps of emotion, fleeting moments, and the unseen."
“Nature’s Pulse”, Leila Heller Gallery
Dubai, 2025
“Working from the mind, using memories to shape her composition”
“Benvenuto found her calling within abstract works, focusing on what cannot be represented. In her artworks, the artist wants to explore and create new imagery to navigate the current world. Working from the mind, using memories to shape her composition, Benvenuto connects with her audience through visual representation; a soft curve becoming a wave, or gestural mark-making turning into long grass dancing in the wind. ”
