John von Bergen

John von Bergen was born in 1939 in Stockholm, Sweden and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1963, and after a stint in the U.S. Coast Guard, he studied at the Art Students League, receiving his MFA from Pratt Institute in New York City in 1967. Among von Bergen’s awards is a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for an Art Foundry, an Arts Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Ford Foundation for the Arts Grant, and a Yaddo and Hand Hollow Foundation Fellowship. He has taught at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Hamilton College, and Colgate University.