Roger Harold Benjamin FAHA (born 18 June 1957) is professor of Art History at the University of Sydney. Benjamin is an Australian art historian and curator who was born and raised in Canberra, where he attended the Canberra Grammar School. Moving to Melbourne, he trained in Fine Arts and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne (1975–79) before travelling to the United States for his MA (1981) and PhD (1985) at Bryn Mawr College, undertaking research in Paris. His first book and articles in French, British, and American journals focused on Matisse and the art of the Fauves (Matisse’s "Notes of a Painter": Criticism, Theory and Context, 1891-1908 Ann Arbor, 1987).