shawn benjamin

Visual Art – Miami

It all started in Orange County, California. I was born on May 12, 1990. I had a tough childhood, moving from city to city it was always hard to grow roots somewhere. I was constantly changing schools which made my fall behind, and get held me back a grade. My step dad n mom tried to rise me n my brother but there were to consume into heavy drugs n couldnt handle all of use so we finally landed in Miami living with my grandma, My everything. I attend Middle school where i went to Arvida n didnt even pick up a pen n pad until high school where i went to Robert Morgan n became interested in Art when i was in trying out i almost didnt even make it and till this day my art teacher always told me i got lucky i got accepted. my freshmen year was really the only year i tried because i was so intrigue with art because i saw myself getting better n better, i would skip class just to go paint. But as the year was coming to the end the art show was coming near which i actually won first place being that senior to freshmen entered in the contest. The next year i started to smoke weed n slacked off, and skipped every chance i got. That continued till my senior year were i got arrested for selling. n being living on my own since