SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
Clearing, Thierry Goldberg Projects. New York, NY

2008
Close to Home. Kinkead Contemporary. Los Angeles, CA
Ben Grasso at the NEXT art fair, Chicago, IL

2007
Rust Belt, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY.
Explosion, Agenzia04, Bologna, Italy.

2006
In My Own Backyard, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
Recess, Crossing Art Gallery, Queens, NY
The Grand, Amelie A. Wallace Center, SUNY Purchase, Old Westbury, NY

2008
Summer Mix, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY
DEADLIEST CATCH, Core Club, Southampton, NY
Supernatural. Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY

2007
Out Behind the Shed, Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
The Atrocity Exhibition, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY
The Big Bang, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland Ohio.
If I Remember Right, Front Room Gallery, Cleveland Ohio.

2006
Hybridity / Ambivalence, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY

2004
Autumn. Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY.
FIAC, with Sixtyseven Gallery, Paris, France.
The Witching Hour, Bucketrider Galley. Chicago, IL.
Art Chicago; International Invitational, with Sixtyseven Gallery, Chicago, IL.
The Neon Forest is My Home, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY.

2003
Euclid Avenue, 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

EDUCATION
2006 MFA in painting, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY.
2003 BFA in Painting, The Cleveland Institute of Art. Cleveland, OH
2002 Edinburgh College of Art. Edinburgh, Scotland UK.

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2003 The Helen Greene Perry Memorial Traveling Scholarship
2002 Joseph McCullough Painting Scholarship Award for Excellence in Painting
2001 Carl Gaertner Memorial Prize
1999-2002 Ohio Choice Grant
1999-2002 Honorary Scholarship

PUBLICATIONS
Sasha M. Lee, “Ben Grasso, Kinkead Contemporary” Beautiful/ Decay, Issue Z, 2009
Ed Schad, “Ben Grasso at Kinkead,” artslant.com, December 2008
Reproduction - Signs of The Apocalypse / Rapture, Front Forty Press, 2008
Casey Ruble, "Ben Grasso at Thierry Goldberg Projects", Art in America, pg 168, March 2008.
Lucio Pozzi, "Grasso contro l'effetto Serra", Il Giornale Dell'arte, N.271, December, 2007
Harper’s Magazine, reproduction “Stars and Stripes”, pg 23, October, 2007.
Steven Litt, "Cleveland Institute of Art Exhibits Celebrates Its Graduates", The Plain Dealer, September 2007.
Michael Gill, "Bang, Bang", Free Times, Volume 15, Issue 19, September 2007.
Nuit Banai, “The Atrocity Exhibition”, Time Out New York, July-August 2007.
Tara Kilachand, “The Atrocity Exhibition”, New York Magazine, July 2007.
Yaelle Amir, “The Invisible Forces of Ben Grasso”, Code Magazine, pg 24-25, Autumn 2006.
William Hanley, "Fair Report:Scope Hamptons", artinfo, July 17, 2006.
Steven Kaplan, "Scope on the Half Shell", Miami Art Exchange, July 21, 2006.
Walter Robinson, "Maximum Miami," artnet.com, December 13, 2005.
William Powhida, "The Neon Forest is My Home," The Brooklyn Rail, March 2004.