Born and raised in Santa Cruz, CA, Benjamin Albrecht is a Brooklyn-based visual artist and gardener. He received a degree in studio art with a concentration in painting from Dartmouth, where he curated the student gallery and also studied neuroscience. Upon graduating, Ben was awarded the Perspectives of Design exhibition and spent the following year as a fellow in the art department that culminated in a show at the Jaffe-Friede Gallery during the Summer of 2017. He then went on to a residency at the Chautauqua School of Art, where he continued to learn from and connect with peers and professional artists. He is currently making new work and looking at opportunities to exhibit creative work and explore the integration of ecology, art and architecture.

Think Coffee Exhibition. New York, NY Aug. 2018

A month long show of drawings and paintings thanks to Think Coffee for the space.

Mindful Harlem Meditation Space Exhibition. New York, NY June 2018

Made possible by Pamela Newkirk and Adrian Bueno, I was grateful to have this opportunity to show the paintings and drawings that had happened since arriving in New York.

Kunstraum group show. A Quick Turnaround (so I’m pretty turned around). Brooklyn, NY July 2018 (link)

Thanks to Kunstraum Directors Nadja Marcin and Fernando Schrupp and curators Genevieve Sachs and Jenna London.

Chautauqua School of Visual Arts Residency. Chautauqua, NY Jun. - Aug. 2017

A summer residency program studying and connecting with visual

art faculty and peers.

Perspectives of Design (POD) Award Recipient. Dartmouth College Jun. 2016 - Aug. 2017

Awarded to two students every year upon graduating from Dartmouth .

I created a body of paintings focusing on ecologies of industrial

consumption and production for exhibition in the Jaffe-Friede

Gallery in the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth in Aug. 2017.

Class of 1960 Curatorial Fellowship Recipient. Dartmouth College Sept. 2014 - Jun. 2015

Awarded to two third-year students, A peer and I were responsible for curating

events in the student gallery at the Black Family Visual Arts Center.