Benjamin Degen (b. 1976 Brooklyn, NY) uses image-making as a process for learning/teaching, connection, vision, realization, and transformation.

Degen received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1998 from The Cooper Union.

He has taught at Cooper Union, The Rhode Island School of Design, The State University of New York at Purchase, Brooklyn College, Pioneer Works, The Brooklyn Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

His work has been exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally, as well as in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, The Collezione Maramotti, The William Benton Museum of Art, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. His artwork is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Collezione Maramotti, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Tang Museum.

 Benjamin Degen is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery in New York.

He lives and works in Beacon, NY.