Brian Rego Artist Biography
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Interview with Brian Rego in Painting Perceptions (2011)
Interview with Brian Rego in CommandZine
Brian Rego has created a series of videos, On Painting, which can be viewed on his YouTube channel. Here is a link to the first in the series, On Painting, 1
Brian Rego earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in painting in 2004 at the University of South Carolina, where he received the Ed Yaghjian Award for distinguished undergraduate work. In 2007 he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA, and in 2008 Rego co-founded the painting collective known as Perceptual Painters, dedicated to teaching, exhibiting, and painting. In 2015, Rego co-founded the Midlands School of Art, based in Columbia, SC, where he is co-director. He has taught drawing and painting at Benedict College, the University of South Carolina, Columbia College, and Heathwood Hall. He has also led programs for the Mt. Gretna School of Art (Pennsylvania), Art New England (Vermont), the Beverly Street Studio School (Virginia), and the Jerusalem Studio School (Italy). Rego exhibits his work and teaches nationally and resides in South Carolina with his wife, Elizabeth, and their four children.