W.C. Richardson

W.C. Richardson received his MFA in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis, and his BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently Professor of Painting and Drawing in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park. He served as Chair of the Department of Art at UMD from 2011 - 2020. He is represented by Addison Ripley Fine Art in Washington, DC. His work has been featured in 21 solo and over 100 group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and art centers in Washington, DC, New York, NY, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Georgia, Minnesota, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and internationally in Brussels, Russia, Jordan and Algiers. His work is currently represented by Addison Ripley Fine Art in Washington DC. Past gallery affiliations include Fusebox and G Fine Art in Washington DC, and Baumgartner Galleries in DC and NY.

Richardson has received numerous grants and awards for his work, including eight Maryland State Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowships. Commissioned artwork is permanently installed at Ronald Reagan National Airport and Reston Town Center in Virginia. His work is held in numerous public and corporate collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (DC), the American University Art Museum Corcoran Collection (DC), the Ackland Art Center (NC), the U.S. Department of State (Algiers), the District of Columbia Town Hall, Prudential Life (NY), IBM Corporation (DC), Richmond Federal Reserve Bank (VA), Washington Post Corporation (DC), Northrop-Grumman (VA), and Reston Town Center (VA).

Richardson’s exhibitions have been reviewed in Art In America, Artforum International, ARTnews, NYArts Magazine, The Art Papers, The New Art Examiner, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Richmond Times Dispatch, The El Paso Times, The Winston-Salem Journal, and The Washington City Paper, among others. Essays and monographs on his work have been published in many exhibition brochures and catalogues. An extensive interview with over 40 reproductions of his work can be found at the online curatorial project www.geoform.net.

Richardson is an active visiting artist, lecturer, and juror at academic institutions and museums throughout the region and across the country.