An award winning painter and author of the classic artist's go-to guide Problem Solving for Oil Painters (now in its twentieth year of publication), Gregg Kreutz has been drawing and painting for the majority of his life. After graduating from New York University, he pursued his training as a painter in earnest at the Art Student's League of New York on a merit scholarship. He studied with Frank Mason, Robert Beverly Hale, and David A. Leffel. After his training at the League, he exhibited at the Washington Square Outdoor Art Show where he won best in show. From there, he began to show in galleries around the area and soon became well-known enough to begin his career as a full time painter.

He has won numerous awards including the Frank C. Wright Award, the Hudson Valley Art Association Award, the Medal of Merit for First Prize in Oils from the Knickerbocker Artists, the Council of American Artists Award from the Salmagundi Club,  the Grumbacher Award from the Knickerbocker Artists, and most recently he won the Merit Award at the 2005 National Portrait Society of America.

He has had solo shows at Grand Central Galleries, New York, The Fanny Garver Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin, the Newport Art Association, Newport RI., and The Hilligoss Gallery in Chicago. He teaches painting and drawing at the Art Student's League as well as at the Fechin Institute in New Mexico, the Scottsdale Artist's School, the California Art Institute, and conducts many helpful artists’ workshops throughout the country.

His videos - Signilar Art Videos (signilar.com) and Lillidal Videos (lilipubs.com) - are popular learning tools used by many aspiring artists all over the world.

When asked about making art, Kreutz says, "For me, painting is an opportunity to learn what is meaningful. Each picture is a visual separation of the highly significant from the less significant. Painting is really a window into the essential."

A quote taken from Problem Solving for Oil Painters: "Painters are fortunate in that they can convey large ideas with very modest means. And realistic painting is an especially rewarding endeavor, to actively go after it means to learn what makes art, and what the external world really looks like, and how the two can be fused."