Benji Okubo (October 27, 1904 – April 15, 1975) was an American-Japanese oil and watercolor painter, teacher, and landscape designer.

Okubo's mother, Miejoko, graduated the Tokyo art institute and worked as a calligrapher and painter.

[1] Okubo served as director of the Art Students League from 1940 to mid-1942,[4] when he was interned at the Pomona Assembly Center outside Los Angeles.

[1][5] The momentum of Okubo's career came to a sudden halt when he was transferred to a internment camp at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming following the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.

Following his death, widow Chisato Takashima Okubo donated his paintings to the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.