Benny Fountain is a painter and art educator from Moscow, Idaho. After spending several years away (Portland, Philadelphia, Rome, Texas), Fountain recently returned to the Northwest to lead the Drawing and Painting track at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. Fountain’s work has been exhibited in numerous national and international exhibits. In 2018 he was Artist in Residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and in Spring of 2022 he was Resident Fellow at the American College of the Mediterranean in Aix-en-Provence, France. Since returning to the Northwest in 2023, Fountain has created a body of work from his hilltop studio-shack in the farmlands of the Palouse. These large-scale landscape paintings were recently exhibited in Fountain’s sixth Solo Exhibition at the Froelick Gallery in Portland, Oregon in July – September, 2025.