𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘆𝘁𝗼

Charmaine Beneyto

b.1985. Margate, Kent, UK.

Lives and works in London, UK.

Charmaine is a visual artist, director, writer and curator. She is also the founder and director of SHAM Gallery.

Education

MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, London, 2025

MA Film with Practice, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, 2017

BA (Hons) Media and Cultural Studies, The London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London, 2009

Awards, Grants, Residencies

Scholarship, Sir Frank Bowling, Royal College of Art, 2024/25

Scholarship, A Room of One's Own from the International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship, 2023

Selected Exhibitions

2025 RCA MA Degree Show, Battersea, London, UK

2025 Thula Sana, (vocal history), Katakata, Brixton, London, UK

2025 Motherhood: All Love Begins and Ends Here, RCA Kensington, London, UK

2025 PostNatal, Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK

2023 Procreate Project Archive, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

2022 Whose Story Is It? Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, UK

2021 Acting balance[d] Spilt Milk Gallery (online)

Curatorial

2025 Ritual, group show, SHAM Gallery, Collect Art Fair, Somerset House, London, UK

2025 PostNatal, group show, Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK

Writing

2025, ‘It is in the folding and folding again’, for Aftersense Publication, CAP Festival, Royal College of Art

2024 ‘A Thing of Beauty’: Elena Hoskyns-Abrahall, for British Art UnCanon, British Art Network (online)

Film

2018 Writer/ Dir: Doves: screened at the Power of Women Festival, Margate, UK and Ramsgate Film Festival, Ramsgate, UK

Stage

2014 Dir/ Producer: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Carol & Maude, Resort Studios, Margate, UK