Bernard Greenwald, minimalist painter and printmaker, was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1941. He received is BFA from the Philadelphia Museum, College of Art, and his MFA from Yale University School of Art and Architecture. Greenwald was a professor of art for over thirty years at Bard College. He also taught writing at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

The work of Bernard Greenwald is represented in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; the Georgetown University Library Art Collection, the National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts.