American painter Ben Schonzeit attended Cooper Union, New York. He has exhibited extensively since 1970, including at Documenta V, 1972, and Documenta VI, 1977, and has been featured in numerous Photorealism exhibitions including at the Guggenheim Museum, Berlin in 2009. His work is represented in public collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Kunsthalle, Basel; and the Ulster Museum, Belfast.