Brian Rego was born in Santa Clara, CA in 1980 and currently lives and works in Charleston, SC. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2007 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of South Carolina in 2004, where he was the recipient of the Ed Yaghjian Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Work. His paintings have been selected for the permanent collection of the Ibánez Museum of Art in Almeria, Spain, and he is the recipient of its honorary 2026 Ibánez Museum Purchase Award, juried by Antonio López Garcia and Andrés Garcia Ibánez. He is the recipient of the Blackwell Prize in Painting, 2023, and has work in the permanent collection of the University of West Georgia. Recent solo exhibitions include Light In August, Carver Hill Gallery, Camden, Maine (2025); Reasons I Stay, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Online Exhibition with Catalogue (2024); Brian Rego: Blackwell Prize in Painting, Vault Gallery and the School of the Arts, University of West Georgia, Newnan, Georgia (2023); Present Memory, Nancy Margolise Gallery, Online Exhibition with Catalogue (2021); Tiny Mirrors, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York (2019); Recent Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York (2017).