Harvey Dinnerstein was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1928. He attended the Art Students League in New York City and the Tyler Art School of Temple University in Philadelphia. His education included two years of study with Moses Soyer.

Listed amounf Dinnerstein's many achievements are seventeen solo exhibitions, including a 1994 retrospective at the Bulter Institute of Art in Youngstown, Ohio. He is represented in many major collections, most notably the National Museum of Art in Washington DC, and the Metropolitan and Whitney museums in New York City.

Dinnerstain also received a host of awardsand has a long list of published works to his credit.