Roger Benjamin

Roger Harold Benjamin FAHA (born 18 June 1957) is professor of Art History at the University of Sydney.

Benjamin moved back to Australia with his appointment as lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne, where he taught for 14 years (1984–98).

His work on contemporary Australian art includes the exhibition Juan Davila (Sydney & Melbourne, 2006) and numerous writings on Tim Johnson.

Academics whose postgraduate work Benjamin has supervised include Ian McLean, Mary Roberts, Chris McAuliffe, Charles Green, Caroline Jordan, Luke Gartlan, Natalie Adamson, and Stephen Gilchrist.

Benjamin held the Australian Research Council’s DORA professorial fellowship from 2013 to 2016, resulting in his book Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia, University of California Press, 2015.