Ben Grasso

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Ben Grasso was born in 1979, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Education

2006 

MFA for Painting, Hunter CUNY, New York, NY

2003 

BFA for Painting, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2002 

Edinburgh College of Art. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Awards/ Residencies

2011

Grant of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York

2010

Fellowship in painting, New York Foundation for the Arts, NYFA

2009

The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

2003

The Helen Greene Perry Scholarship

2002

Joseph McCullough Painting Scholarship Award for Excellence in Painting

2001

Carl Gaertner Memorial Prize

Solo Exhibitions

2011

adaptation, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY

2010

TBD,  Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY

New Territory, Jerome- Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Italy

2009

Clearing, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY

2008

Close to Home, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

NEXT ART FAIR, Thierry Goldberg Projects solo booth, Chicago, IL

2007

Rust Belt, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY

Explosion, Agenzia 04, Bologna Italy

2006

In My Own Backyard, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2012


Good For You, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI, U.S.A.

2011

Burn in the U.S.A., Ars Now Seragiotto, Padua

2010 NYFA Fellows, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York

box(e), curated by Gabriele Tinti, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan


2010

Parlour no. 14Curated by Samuel T. Adams, Diamonds in the Crow’s Nest, New York, NY

(ex)communicate, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Italy

2009

Recess, Crossing Art Gallery, Queens, NY

Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, (In conjunction with Okamoto Studio, NYC), Queens NY

The Grand, Amelie A. Wallace Center, SUNY

Purchase Old Westbury Campus, Old Westbury, NY

2008

Deadliest Catch, Hamptons, New York, NY

Summer Mix, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY

Supernatural, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY

2007

Out Behind the Shed, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

If I Rememeber Right, Front Room Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Big Bang, Spaces, Cleveland, OH

Atrocity Exhibition, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY

2006

Hybridity/ Ambivalence, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY

Monumenta Art: Benifit 2006, Monumenta, Brooklyn, NY and White Columns, New York, NY

Scope Hamptons, Sixtyseven, East Hampton, NY

2005

Pulse, Sixtyseven, Miami, Fl

Kunst Zurich, Sixtyseven, Zurich, Switzerland

2004

Autumn, Sixtyseven, New York, NY

Fiac, Sixtyseven, Paris, France

The Witching Hour, Bucketrider Galley. Chicago, IL

The Neon Forest is my Home, Sixtyseven, New York, NY

2003

Art snots, Arcade, Cleveland, OH

Art Cares: AIDS Benefit, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2002

ABC: Learning to Paint, J. McCullough Center Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Painting and Drawing Show, ECA. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

2001

Annual Summer Show, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Bibliography

2010

(ex)communicate, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, exhibition catalogue, Milan

2009

Guernica/ a magazine of art and politics, guernicamag.com., August

Sixth Finch, Sixthfinch.com, Fall 

Harpers Magazine, pp. 24 August

Sasha M. Lee, Ben Grasso, Kinkead ContemporaryBeautiful/ Decay, Issue Z

2008

Ed Schad, Ben Grasso at Kinkead, artslant.com, December 

Casey Ruble, Ben Grasso at Thierry GoldbergArt in America, March 

Steven Litt, Shows display grads’ impact over the years, Cleveland Plain Dealer, September

2007

Michael Gill, Bang, Bang, The Cleveland

Free Times, September 

Harpers Magazine, pp. 26. October

2006

William Hanley, Fair Report: Scope Hamptons, artinfo, July 

Steven Kaplan, Scope on the Half Shell, Miami Art Exchange, July

Yaelle Amir, The Invisible Forces of Ben Grasso, Code Magazine

2005

Walter Robinson, Maximum Miami, artnet.com, December 

2004

William Powhida, The Neon Forest is My Home, The Brooklyn Rail, March 


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