Nicholas H. Ruth is a Professor of Art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in New York.  Ruth received a BA from Pomona College, and earned an MFA in Painting from the Meadow’s School of Art at Southern Methodist University.  His work has been included in more than 150 exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Print Center of New York’s New Prints 2021/Summer, Inkfest Cairns 2021, the 2019 IPEP India Juried Print Exchange, the 9th Triennale Mondiale de l’Estampe Camalieres, 2nd Global Print 2015 Portugal, the Pacific States Biennial, and the Atlanta Print Biennial, and is in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Rockwell Museum, the Memorial Art Gallery, and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.  Ruth’s work explores the relationship of the built environment and human desire.