Brian received their B.F.A. in Printmaking and Art History from MSU Moorhead in 2019. In 2020 they attended the world-renowned Tamarind Institute and are a trained Collaborative Printer and Lithographer. They maintain their studio practice in the forest of northern Minnesota.​​​

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Primarily working in printmaking and drawing, their work addresses grief, love, and loss through the lenses of identity and memory. ​Revisiting the pastoral landscapes they grew up in, their work is a documentation of the queerness present but not always shown in rural places. ​​Wagner's work examines the intimacy, tenderness, and desire in queer relationships through these fragmented sceneries, bird flocks, and queer symbolism. The  spaces and subjects they draw are places of transition; shifting, ever-changing, and ubiquitous with queerness and grief.

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Their work has been acquired by public and private collections including the Minnesota Historical Society, Georgia State University, The Plains Art Museum, The University of Milwaukee, The University of Minnesota, The University of South Dakota,  St. Michael's Printshop (Newfoundland, CA), MCAD,  among others.