Benjamin La Rocco Origin (for Corbet) 2008 Painting 12"x12" Benjamin La Rocco is presented by Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in New York and John Davis Gallery in Hudson; exhibitions in Europe and America; former visiting professor at Rutgers University and Purchase College; former lecturer and visiting critic at Rutgers, Montclair, Hunter, PS1 MoMA; panelist at “Younger than Pontius Pilate” at The National Academy Museum (New York); awards include Marie Walsh Sharpe residency (2005–06), S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Award for Painting from the National Academy of Design Museum; contributing writer and editor-at-large for The Brooklyn Rail. EDUCATION B.A., Middlebury College; M.F.A., Pratt Institute.