Lives and works in New York.
www.benjamindegen.com
EDUCATION
1998 Cooper Union School of Art and Science B.F.A.
1997 Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship
RESIDENCIES
2007 Medium, St. Barthalemy, French West Indies
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012
Benjamin Degen & Yuri Masnyg, American Contemporary, New York, NY
2010
Out of the Dark and into the Air, Museum 52 New York
2008
We Can't Stop Living, Guild & Greyshkul, New York
2007
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
Me.di.um, St. Barthalemy, French West Indies
2006
A Tree is Falling Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
Land Lives and Still Scapes Guild & Greyshkul, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Graphomania, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington. MA
The Brucennial 2012, New York, NY
The Oppenheimer Collection, Nerman Museum, KC
2011
LANY, curated by Mario Diacono, Peter Blum, NY
2010
Reclining Nudes Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Natural Renditions, Marlborough Gallery Chelsea, NY
2009
Cave Painting' Curated by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost Gallery, New York, NY
New Work New York, Fortune Cookie Projects, Singapore (Touring to China, Korea and Japan)
Beyond Bounds - Glow, The Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS
Pink Panther, Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Hannah Dumes and Nicole O'rourke, Kumukumu Gallery, New York, NY
The Ankle Bones are Higher on the Inside, Museum 52 Gallery, New York, NY
Transitions: Painting at the (other) End of Art Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Garish, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Variations on a Theme, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008
Recent Acquisitions, Gifts and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2007, White Columns, New York
2007
Painting as Fact, Fact as Fiction Curated by Bob Nickas, dePury & Luxembourg, ZÃÆ'Æ'¼rich
2006
Occupation Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington
View Eleven: Upstate Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Collection 2005/2006 Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
2005
Among the Trees The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, New Jersey
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes with Yuri Masnyj, Guild & Greyshkul, New York
Looking at Words Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
The General's Jamboree Guild & Greyshkul, New York
Bebe le Strange D'Amelio Terras, New York
Greater New York PS1 MOMA, Long Island City
Landings Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
2004
Colored Pencil KS Art New York
Guild & Greyshkul at Placemaker Gallery, Miami
2003
My Sources Say Yes Guild & Greyshkul, New York
The New Topography Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
2011
Vitamin P2, Phaidon Press
2009
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection, Catalog Raisonne,
Museum of Modern Art. New York
Beyond Bounds-Glow, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Overland Park, Kansas
Off the books - Drawing in Text Space, Frederieke Taylor Gallery. New York.
2008
Oppenheimer Collection Nerman, Museum of Contemporary Art. Overland Park, Kansas.
Post-war and contemporary art 17 may 2008, Rago Art and Auction Center. Lambertville, New Jersey
2007
Painting as Fact - Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg. Zurich, Switzerland
2005
Scott, Andrea, Local Heroes, Time Out, April
Shum, Irene, Benjamin Degen, Greener New York, PS1 MoMA
COLLECTIONS
Collezione Maramotti, Bologna, Italy
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Nerman MOCA, Kansas
The Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York
Contemporary Drawings Collection, New York