SCOTT RICHTER
Born Atlanta, GA. 1943. Lives Weston, CT.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, N
2010 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2007 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Revolution, Ferndale, MI
2002 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1998 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
1994 The Thorne Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
1992 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1990 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Fuller/ Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
1988 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1987 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Zabriski Gallery, New York, NY
Valencia College, Orlando, FL
1983 Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
1981 Hamilton Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, NY
1980 Euginia Cuculon Gallery, New York, NY
Camielle Strauss Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 “Precious” ”, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Marilyn Rosenberg
2007 “Surface Impressions”, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY curated by Karen Shaw
2005 “SunDown”, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Eric LoPresti
“About Paint”, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, curated by Alberta Cifolelli, Ben Ortiz, Joyce Thompson
2004 “A Coat Of”, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Marilyn Rosenberg
“About Painting”, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, NY, curated by Ian Berry
“179th Annual Exhibition: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”,
the National Academy of Design, New York, NY
"10: A Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition," REVOLUTION, Ferndale, MI
2003 "Summer Color", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
"Manic", DumboArt Center, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Nancy Doll
"Slab", University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL curated by Bill Conger
"Eccentric Landscape", Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island,
Providence, R.I., curated by Judith Tolnick
2002 "Move", Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
"Prescient Then and Now", Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY curated by Saul Ostrow
"Beyond the Pale", Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase, NY, curated by Dede Young
2001 "Go Figure", Sisson Art Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
"More or Less Painting", Center for Visual Art Culture", University of Connecticut, curated by Saul Ostrow
"Boomerang", Exit Art, New York, NY
2000 "On Paper 111", Revolution, Ferndale, MI
"Painting Function: Making It Real", Spaces, Cleveland, OH, curated by Saul Ostrow
"Luscious", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "Abstract Painting Once Removed", Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
"10th Anniversary Celebration", Bertha Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 "Women Women Women: Artists, Objects, Icons", Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
"Saturation", Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
"Abstract Painting, Once Removed", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1997 "Table Tops: Morandi to Mapplethorpe", California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
"10 Artists/10 Visions", DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1996 "Beyond the Picture Plane", Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT
"The Landscape Reclaimed", Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1996 "Pieces from the Permanent Collection", Museo de Arte Contemporano, Mexico City, Mexico
1995 "Drawings", Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1994 "Sculpture", Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
"Color", Tz Art & Co., New York, NY
1993 “Three Gallery Artists”, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo NY.
"10 x 10", Tz Art & Co., New York, NY
"Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image", Space, Chicago, IL; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
1991 “Stark Contrast”, Trenkman Gallery, New York, NY
1989 "The Emerging Figure", The Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
"10 Gallery Artists", Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1988 "Figurative Impulses", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"Sculptors on Paper: New Work," Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
"Figures: Form and Fiction", Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
"Avant-Garde in the Eighties", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Group Show", Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1987 "Contemporary Drawing", Collegiate School, New York, NY
"Group Show", Fuller/Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 "Sculpture on the Wall", The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, C
"The Figure Abstracted: Intimated Presences", Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
"Group Show", Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Inaugural Exhibition", Curt Marcus Gallery, NY
"Group Show", Gallery Nature Morte, New York, NY.
"After Nature", Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY
"Contemporary Primitivism", Gallery of Contemporary Art, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
"20th Century Three Dimensional Portraits", Cleveland Center for Art, Cleveland, OH
1985 "Winter Opening Figures", P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
"Figure It Out", Gallery of Contemporary Art, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
"Winter Show", Gallery Nature Morte, New York, NY
"Not Just Black and White", New York Cultural Center, New York ,NY
1985 "The Mystery Show", Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
"Irregulars: Wall Works", Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
"Affiliations: Recent Sculpture and Its Antecedents", Whitney Museum, Stamford, CT
"Body and Soul", Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
"The Psyche and the Human Form", The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1984 "Young Americans", Gallerie Bellman, New York, NY
"Group Show", Condesco/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Invitational Exhibition", Grace Borgenicht, New York, NY
"Figuratively Sculpting", P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 Kuspit, Donald, “Reviews” Artforum, Oct. 2007
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2005 Cohen, David, “Gallery Going”, The New York Sun, March 31
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2000 "Galleries - Chelsea, Scott Richter", The New Yorker, Nov. 13, p 34
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1997 Pincus, Robert, "A Feast for eyes laid out on ‘Tabletops’", San Diego Union-Tribune, October 12
1996 Zimmer, William, "Landscape Returns to the Foreground", The New Times, October 13, p 32
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Syracuse Herald-Journal, September 22
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Watkins, Eileen, "Jersey City Museum Exhibit Explores Modern Mystery", The Jersey Journal, May 24, p 18
Brenson, Michael, "The Human Form in the Work of 12 Sculptors", New York Times, February 1, p C24
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GRANTS AND AWARDS
1995 Connecticut Council for the Arts/Painting
1986 National Endowment for the Arts / Sculpture
New York Foundation for the Arts / Sculpture
1985 Engelhard Grant
1984 National Endowment for the Arts/Sculpture
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1984-2014 Cooper Union, New York, NY. (Adjunct Professor)
1978-84 S.U.N.Y. at Purchase, New York. (Assistant Professor)
1988 S.U.N.Y. at Purchase, NY visiting artist Grad. Sculpture Program
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURE SERIES
Bard College
Carnegie Mellon University
Harvard University
New York University
Parsons School of Design
Pratt Institute
Rhode Island School of Design
Skidmore College
SUNY Purchase Graduate Program
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Syracuse