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Richard Rutner attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and received his MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and Rome. He exhibited his work on Long Island at the Nassau County Museum of Art. He exhibited at the Vorpal Gallery and Fourteen Sculptors Gallerys and at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. As part of the National Drawing Association he took part in many group exhibitions throughout New York State and Texas, Maryland and Conneticut. His metal mask paintings were exhibited at the MetLife Windows in New York and in Nurnberg, Germany. He taught painting at SVA and Saint John's University and was an arts administrator for 30 years at the Town of Hempstead on Long Island. He was an art consultant and was the President of the advisory board at Hofstra University's Emily Lowe Gallery. He also guest curated for the MOA Japanese Cultural Association in New York. He moved to Austin in 2001 where he lives and paints.