Ben Denzer

Ben Denzer is an artist and publisher. He is interested in books, the physicality of images, playing with value, focusing a view and finding moments of humor. Ben studied architecture and visual arts at Princeton and received an MFA at RISD, where he made a thesis book physically larger than the RISD Fleet library.

Along with his studio practice, Ben designs and publishes books under the imprint Catalog Press and is a frequent visual contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker. Ben has taught courses at SVA, Parsons, RISD and Center for Book Arts and has been an artist-in-residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Ben’s work has been collected by The Met, The Guggenheim, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the University of Oxford among other institutions. His work has been recognized by the Art Directors Club, Young Guns 16, Society of Illustrators, AIGA, AI-AP and The New York Times.