Benjamin Omar Rojas

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Website: http://www.trustyourstruggle.com

Benjamin Omar Rojas (Borish) was born in 1979 to parents who had immigrated to the United States from the country of El Salvador. They established their new lives in the well-known Californian Bay Area. Benjamin’s artistic talents were very well nurtured as a child by both parents, especially his mother who one day before leaving to the hospital for surgery bought her 3 children a box full of art supplies. From then on his passion lead the way.

After high school Benjamin went on to community college and then to San Francisco State University in 2004 where he majored in Art Education and received his B.A. In 2003 Benjamin helped form an artist collective with two other friends called the Trust Your Struggle collective. After moving to Brooklyn, New York, Benjamin co-founded the Trust Your Hustle mural tour, which traveled through Mexico and Central America creating murals in the summer of 2006.

Benjamin has exhibited art and painted murals in such places as: San Francisco, New York City, Virginia Tech University, Trinity College in Connecticut, Puerto Rico, The Netherlands, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Benjamin has also participated on speaking panels at Trinity College, Virginia Tech University, University of the Arts in Boston, and the Casa de Artesana Women’s Center in Guatemala City.

Categories: Traditional / Culturally Specific, Teaching Artist, Public Art, Portrait, Painting, Murals, Multi-Cultural, Mixed Media, Hip Hop, Graphics / Illustration, Graffiti, Drawing, Activism, Visual Arts