Biography:

Benjamin Billingsley holds an MFA from UNC Greensboro and has exhibited work in the United States, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, and Japan. Billingsley has taught studio art and art history at Cape Fear Community College since 2001 and, in 2006, received the Marilyn Goodman Anderson Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching. Billingsley is a guest curator for the Cameron Art Museum, a frequent guest speaker for UNCW’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and a competition judge. Billingsley spent the summers of 2013 and 2015 in artist-in-residence programs at the Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum in Sabile, Latvia, and was a visiting artist in printmaking at East Carolina University (2019). Billingsley is well-known in the region for large-scale steamroller printing events, most recently at UNC Greensboro in April 2024. Recent recognitions include “The Game- Changers: Diebenkorn, Frankenthaler, Rauschenberg” (2025), “Close to Home” (2024-2025), and “The Eye Learns: Modernist Prints from the Belden Collection” (2015). He has frequented as a competition judge for many prestigious juried competitions within the region and the surrounding area.

Education

• Master of Fine Arts (MFA), UNC Greensboro
• Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), UNC Greensboro

Research/Teaching Expertise:

Printmaking