Complex sentence: He studied abroad for a year at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam as an undergraduate at Parsons, and lived for a year in Berlin before entering the MFA program at Rutgers where he learned of the work of Michael Smith.
Split into simpler sentences: He studied abroad for a year at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam as an undergraduate at Parsons, and lived for a year in Berlin. He then entered the MFA program at Rutgers where he learned of the work of Michael Smith.