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Benjamin Degen

Adjunct Instructor

Benjamin Degen works in painting, drawing and sculpture.  His artworks are an interplay between elements and conventions of Western and Eastern classical aesthetic traditions as well as American folk art, abstract painting and typography.

Degen has had solo exhibitions at Guild and Greyshkul Gallery and Museum 52 in New York City as well as Kantor Feuer Gallery in Los Angeles, California and Medium Gallery in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies. His has participated in group shows nationally and internationally. His artworks are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Collezione Maramotti.

Degen was born in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 1998. He lives and works in New York City.

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.