Benjamin Rubloff grew up in New York and has lived in Berlin for over twenty years. He came to painting through an early interest in landscape — not as scenery, but as a site where politics, memory, and ideology become visible. That interest took him to Cornell University's interdisciplinary MFA program, where his work developed in dialogue with histories of place and urbanism, and eventually drew him toward the city itself as subject matter.
Two decades of living in and moving through Berlin have shaped a practice grounded in close attention to the city's overlooked surfaces and histories.
In 2024, Kettler Verlag published When I Was There, Rubloff's first artist book, which brings together painting, writing, and photography around the experience of the city and the traces — personal and collective — embedded in its surfaces. The book includes an essay by Duncan Ballantyne-Way.
He is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting. He also holds an M.A. in Education from Harvard University and a B.A. in American Studies from Wesleyan University.