Nils Benson

Nils Benson grew up in a sleeping bag in the woods of Northern Idaho and the small college town of Pullman, Washington with his family. He went to art school in Portland, Oregon at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and at the Fine Art school in Chongqing, Sichuan in the People's Republic of China, where he studied sculpture and traditional Chinese painting for a year. He got his BA in Fine Arts from P.N.C.A in 1989. After working as an Assistant Editor on the Gus Van Saint movie, " My own private idaho" he decided to move to Los Angeles in 1990 to work with union camera crews on features, commercials and music videos. Since then he has split his time between film and fine art. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife.