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Brian Rutenberg

Born in South Carolina, 1965. 
Lives and works in New York City.

Education

1989 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1987 BFA, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC



Solo Exhibitions

2008 Palmetto, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
  Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2007 Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
  Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, GA
2006 Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

  South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
  Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
  David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2005 Carolina, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Cress Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, TN
  Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
  Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, CA
2003 John Raimondi Gallery, Vitale, Caturano & Co., Boston, MA
  Recent Landscape Paintings, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
  Algonquin, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Tippy-Stern Fine Art, Charleston, SC
  Artists to Artists, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Colorado Springs, CO
2001 A Ten Year Survey, Butler Institute of American Art, Warren, OH 
Hidell-Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2000 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

  Tippy-Stern Fine Art, Charleston, SC

  Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

  Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA


  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Gallery, Toronto, Canada
.
A special exhibition sponsored by the Glenn Gould Foundation

  Hidell- Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC

1998 Burroughs-Chapin Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, SC

  University of South Carolina-Beaufort, SC

  Fine Arts Center of Camden County, Camden, SC

  Wells Gallery, Charleston, SC
1997 Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


1996 Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
  Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, SC
  National Library of Canada, Glenn Gould Exhibition Website, Ottawa

1995 Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

  St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC
1994 David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
  Fridholm Gallery, Asheville, NC
1993 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

  Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

  Fridholm Gallery, Asheville, NC
1992 Fridholm Gallery, Asheville, NC
1989 Francis Marion College Art Gallery, Florence, SC

Group Exhibitions

2007 The Contemporary Landscape, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
  TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2006 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
  Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
  Eva Carter Gallery, Charleston, SC
  Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
  75th Anniversary Exhibition, Weill Art Gallery, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
2005 John Raimondi Gallery, Boston, MA

  Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
  Burroughs-Chapin Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, SC
  Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
  Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2004 Transamerica Corporation Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Forum Gallery, New York, NY
  Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
  Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
  Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
  Burroughs-Chapin Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, SC
  Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
  Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
  Terra Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Ace Gallery, New York, NY
  Callen McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV
  Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
  Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2003 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
  Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
2002 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
  Tippy-Stern Gallery, Charleston, SC
  Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2002 Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
  Hidell-Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2001 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
  Tippy-Stern Gallery, Charleston, SC
  Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
  Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2000 Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

  Hidell-Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC

  Tippy-Stern Fine Art, Charleston
  Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

  Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1999 The Painting Center, New York, NY

  Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA


1998 Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, B.C.
  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
  Mc Allen Art Museum. McAllen, TX
  Hidell/ Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC


1997 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA

  American Academy of Arts & Letters Invitational, New York, NY

  Radix Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
  Art Initiatives, New York, NY
  Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
1995 Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
  Artists from the Permanent Collection, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1994 Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

  Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

  808 Penn Modern Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA


1993 Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

  Lee Arthur Studio, New York, NY

  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
  Abstraction Per Se, Pratt Institute Manhattan, NY
  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
  University of Pittsburgh Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
  Fridholm Fine Arts, Asheville, NC
1992 Dean Velentgas Gallery, Portland. ME

  St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC
  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1991 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

  Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

  Piccolo Spoleto Festival, City Gallery, Charleston, SC


1990 Biennial Exhibition, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
  Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

  Washington Square Art Gallery, New York, NY
  Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, SC
  Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY


1989-88 Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY (multiple exhibitions)
  City Gallery, Charleston, SC Piccolo Spoleto


1987 Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
  City Gallery, Charleston, SC Piccolo Spoleto

  Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY (curator: Will Insley)


1986 Beyond Rainbow Row, Charleston County Library, SC
  Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, SC
  Lenexa Art Center, Lenexa, KS

  Piccolo Spoleto, City Gallery, Charleston, SC
1985 Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC


Awards

2004 Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
2002 Spring Island Trust Award

2000 Peter S. Reed Foundation Award
  Sea Island Trust Visiting Artist

1997 Fulbright Scholarship

  Artists Work Programme Studio Grant, Irish Museum of Modern Art


1993 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation

1991 Basil Alkazzi Award USA

  Ragdale Foundation Fellowship


1988 MFA Scholarship Award, School of Visual Arts


1987 Laura Bragg Memorial Award

Museum and Public Collections

Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Burroughs-Chapin Museum of Art, Myrtle Beach, SC
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Carolina First Bank, Greenville, SC
College of Charleston Foundation, SC
The Colony Group, Boston, MA
Comcast Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Dow Jones & Co., New York, NY
Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, VA
First National Bank of Chicago, Detroit, MI
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
The Ozer Group, Needham, MA
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, CA
Saks Fifth Avenue, San Francisco, CA
St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC
Showboat Casino, Inc., Atlantic City, NJ
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Spring Island Trust, Spring Island, SC
South Carolina Arts Commission State Art Collection
Stoneridge Corporation, Warren, OH
Strategic Search Inc., Charlotte, NC
Swiss Re Corporation, New York, NY
Vitale, Caturano & Co., Boston, MA
Wilmington Trust Co., New York, NY
Yale University Gallery of Art, New Haven, CT

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