Artist: Brian Rego | Location: Columbia, SC
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Artist: Brian Rego | Location: Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC
Brian Rego received a BFA at the University of South Carolina with a concentration in painting in 2004. He was the recipient of the Ed Yaghjian Award from the University of South Carolina for distinguished undergraduate work. In 2007, Brian Rego received an MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA, and in 2008 co-founded the painting collective known as Perceptual Painters. This collective is 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, Heathwood Hall, and various programs such as the Mt. Gretna School of Art in PA, Art New England in VT, the Beverly Street Studio School in VA, and the Jerusalem Studio School in Italy. Rego exhibits his work and teaches nationally, and resides in South Carolina with his wife, Elizabeth, and four children.