Born in 1975, Allana Benham is an accomplished and versatile artist with a bold vision of the human figure. Her recent Suspension Series I is a poetic vision of the human experience. She is also well known for her landscape paintings, which are widely collected in the United States and Canada.

She earned an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art, and a BA with honours in Museum Studies from Brown University. Mrs. Benham studied landscape painting at the Florence Academy in Florence, Italy, and was a private student of Steven Assael in New York. While at Brown University, Mrs. Benham completed a print and digital catalogue of the Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Miniature Paintings, which has been used by researchers around the world.

Mrs. Benham has a strong interest in the human figure, and teaches a comprehensive program of artistic anatomy which is unique in Canada. She has attended disection laborotories and surgeries for her anatomical research, and she is currently compiling a book on anatomy for the artist.

Mrs. Benham lives, works, and teaches in Montreal, where she co-founded Atelier de Bresoles with her husband Eric Mannella in 2003. Since 2007 she has been the curator of Galerie de Bresoles.