Ben Ruggiero
Ben Ruggiero’s work has shown both nationally and internationally including Art and Commerce’s Festival of Emerging Photography, Fotofest and Austin Museum of Art’s New Art in Austin Triennial.
His recent solo project “After Icebergs with a Painter” was shown at Testsite in 2010 and addresses the mythology and visual legacy of Romanticism and its relationship to Photography as realized by Frederic Church and in particular his painting “The Icebergs.”
His work was on display this summer in the membership show curated by Ariel Shanberg at the Houston Center for Photography, as well as upcoming work being included in the Museum of Fine Art’s Photo Forum 2011. He is a graduate of Bard’s MFA program, a Lecturer of Photography at Texas State University as well as a member of the Austin photography collective Lakes Were Rivers.