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Ben Schachter (b. 1974) is a graduate of Pratt Institute and lives in Pittsburgh, PA. Schachter has exhibited throughout the United States.
Exhibitions:
“Eruvim” 2014, Youngstown Area Jewish Federation Art Gallery, OH
“This is not a Dream” 2014, American Jewish Museum, PA;
“Jewish Geography” 2013, Les Idees Gallery, PA
“It’s a Thin Line,” 2012, Yeshiva University Museum, NY;
“This Token Partnership” 2012, Yale University Institute for Sacred Music, CT;
“Silent Witnesses” 2012, The Holocaust Memorial Center, MI
“Gestures 14,” 2010, Mattress Factory, PA.
Publications:
“The Eruv: Urban Drawing, Social Structure,” in Drawing in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Practice, edited by Elizabeth Pergam, Ashgate, Forthcoming
“Aesthetic Interpretations of the Eruv,” In It’s a Thin Line, Eruv from Talmudic to Modern Culture,” edited by Adam Mintz, Yeshiva University Museum, 2014
Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity, Saint Vincent College Gallery, exhibition catalog 2010.
Schachter has also presented papers to the Association of Jewish Studies, College Art Association and Conney Conference on Jewish Art. His blog is jewisharttheory.blogspot.com and he is working on a book on contemporary Jewish art.
Awards
Schachter has received the Hadassah Brandeis Research Grant 2010 and has served as artist in residence to the American Jewish Museum, PA, 2009 and attended the Vermont Studio Center in 2003. He is currently seeking gallery representation.
View this artist’s recent posts here.
ben.schachter@email.stvincent.edu
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[…] Ben Schachter received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in studio art and art history, and received an MFA in studio art and an MS in art history and criticism from Pratt Institute. He is currently professor of visual art and chair of the Fine Arts department at Saint Vincent College. He exhibits regularly and gives public lectures. […]
[…] Ben Schachter received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in studio art and art history, and received an MFA in studio art and an MS in art history and criticism from Pratt Institute. He is currently professor of visual art and chair of the Fine Arts department at Saint Vincent College. He exhibits regularly and gives public lectures. In the Fall of 2017 his first book “Image, Action and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art” will be published. […]
[…] Ben Schachter received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in studio art and art history, and received an MFA in studio art and an MS in art history and criticism from Pratt Institute. He is currently professor of visual art and chair of the Fine Arts department at Saint Vincent College. He exhibits regularly and gives public lectures. In the Fall of 2017 his first book “Image, Action and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art” will be published. […]
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[…] Ben Schachter is professor of Fine Arts at Saint Vincent College. He received both MFA and MS degrees from Pratt Institute. He is an ELITalks speaker, and has addressed artist groups and attended conferences in the United States and Israel. His writing on art has appeared in several academic journals including Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture and, soon, in Ars Judaica. Other writing can be found in Contemporary Drawing in the 21st Century and It’s a in Line: Eruv from Talmudic to Modern Culture. His artwork has been exhibited at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University, Yeshiva University Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Mattress Factory and currently at the Derfner Judaica Museum in Riverdale, NY. He is the Jewish Art Salon’s first blogger. His first book, published by the Pennsylvania University State Press, entitled, Image, Action and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art, will be available at the end of 2017. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and four children. […]
[…] Ben Schachter received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in studio art and art history, and received an MFA in studio art and an MS in art history and criticism from Pratt Institute. He is currently professor of visual art and chair of the Fine Arts department at Saint Vincent College. He exhibits regularly and gives public lectures. In the Fall of 2017 his first book “Image, Action and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art” will be published. […]
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