Career
Born in New York City, he lived and worked in Paris from 1964 to 2012. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in cities such as Paris, London, Avignon, Barcelona, Brussels, Brest, Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Montreal, and Adelaide, Australia. His work is in public collections in France, Spain, and the United States (Rose Museum, at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska). He was also the subject of a short Cable News Network film, "An American Sculptor in Paris" (1995).
The French government has honored him by inducting him as a "Chevalier de l"Ordre des Arts et des Lettres", the French equivalent of induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As a sculptor whose works are frequently large and created for public, architectural settings, Brenner wrote a 1971 article for Leonardo magazine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press) entitled "Concerning Sculpture and Architecture", in which he observes that "the monumental scale of modern sculpture.