Pratt Institute

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Education

BA from Middlebury College
MFA from Pratt Institute

Biography

Ben La Rocco is a painter living and working in Brooklyn. He is represented by Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in New York and John Davis Gallery in Hudson. He has been a visiting professor at Rutgers in New Brunswick and at Purchase College, and has lectured and been a visiting critic at Rutgers, Montclair, Hunter, and PS1 and the National Academy Museum. He currently teaches in the fine art department of Pratt Institute. He has been the recipient of a Marie Walsh Sharpe artist residency (2005-6) and the S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Award for Painting from The National Academy of Design Museum. Most recently he received a residency at the Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Berlin. La Rocco is a contributing writer and editor at large for The Brooklyn Rail.