Brian Rutenberg (b.1965) received his BFA in 1987 from the College of Charleston and his MFA in 1989 from the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is a Fulbright Scholar, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, a Basil Alkazzi USA Award recipient, an Irish Museum of Modern Art visiting artist program participant, and has had over two hundred and fifty exhibitions throughout North America. Rutenberg's paintings are included in such museum collections as Yale University Art Gallery, The Butler Institute of American Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum of Art, Greenville County Museum of Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, South Carolina State Museum, and many others.

 His popular YouTube videos Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits are viewed daily by people all over the world. Radius Books published a full color monograph for Brian Rutenberg in 2008, and his book of essays, Clear Seeing Place, was released in October 2016 and became an Amazon #1 bestseller. In 2018, Brian received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the College of Charleston where he delivered the commencement address. His most recent monograph, A Little Long Time, was published by Forum Gallery in 2019, also becoming an Amazon bestseller and now sold out.

Forum Gallery has been proud to represent Brian Rutenberg since 2001.  He lives and works in New York City.