Nils Benson

Nils was conceived in Ojai, California among the flowers of the Krishna Murti compound. He grew up in a sleeping bag in the woods of Northern Idaho and the small college town of Pullman, Washington. As a freshman in high school he became the sports photographer for the local newspaper until he moved to Portland, Oregon to attend the Pacific Northwest College of Art and 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 the projectionist at the North West Film center for 9 years and as Assistant Editor on the Gus VanSant movie, " My Own Private Idaho" he moved to Los Angeles in 1990 to work with union camera crews on features, commercials and music videos. Such as "The Hollars", "Knocked Up" and "21 And Over" and the TV show "Grimm" Since then he has split his time between film and fine art.