Wendy Richmond is a multimedia visual artist, writer and educator.
Her recent work, “Like the Back of My Hand,” includes a series of sculptures and installations that delve into protection and loss. This work is featured in the New Yorker magazine Talk of the Town March 11, 2019 issue.
Richmond’s solo exhibitions include “Check Out This Sculpture!” (New York Public Library, Jefferson Market); “Like the Back of My Hand” (Carroll and Sons); “Wendy Richmond Rocks TVs” (Carroll and Sons); “Wendy Richmond: Navigating the Personal Bubble” (RISD Museum); “Overheard” (gallery@calit2, University of California, San Diego); “Seen” (Bernard Toale Gallery) and “Public Privacy: Wendy Richmond’s Surreptitious Cellphone” (Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego).
After graduating from Wesleyan University, Richmond began mixing traditional media with new technology at MIT’s Visible Language Workshop (now part of the Media Lab) and co-founded the Design Lab at WGBH in Boston. She has taught at MIT, International Center of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
From 1984 through 2021, Richmond was a contributing editor and columnist at Communications Arts magazine; some examples of her regular column can be found at “Design Culture” and in her books Design & Technology: Erasing the Boundaries, and Art Without Compromise*. She is also the author of overneath: a collaboration of photography and dance.
She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a LEF Foundation grant, the Hatch Award for Creative Excellence, an American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist residency and numerous art and design awards. Richmond serves on the MacDowell Fellows Executive Committee.
