Riley Brewster is a painter, printmaker and educator. He has been teaching at WCSU since 2006 and previously taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, at Bowdoin College, Dartmouth College, Hampshire College, and New York Studio School. He is represented by Fred Giampietro Gallery in New Haven, where his solo exhibition was held in October-November of last year.

Brewster received his BA from Bowdoin and his MFA from Yale, where he received the Highest Award for Excellence in Painting. He studied with Andrew Forge, William Bailey, Jake Berthot, and Bernard Chaet. He also attended Skowhegan, New York Studio School and St. Martins School of Art in London.

His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and is in private and public collections, including Davis Museum of Art, Museum of Art (Portland, Maine), and Yale University Art Gallery. He is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships which include the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Maine State Commission on the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Pollock Krasner Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Esther and Adolf Gottlieb Foundation.