About The Artist

Selected Exhibitions 1995-2012: 2012 Land & Light/David Hines & Richard Thompson, Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, NM 2010 Richard Thompson: New Landscapes, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Ft. Worth, TX [additional one-person exhibitions: 2005, 2002, 2000, 1997, 1995,1993, 1992, 1990, 1988, 1986] 2009 Perceptions of Reality, ICO Gallery Chelsea, NY, NY 2008 Richard Thompson: The Foolish Fly Fisherman-Paintings 2000-05, Longview Museum of Fine Art, Longview, TX 2008 Richard Thompson: Paintings 1988-2008, Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2008 Remembering Space Gallery, Kellogg Art Museum, California State University, Pomona, CA 2007 A Gift of Time, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM 2004 Richard Thompson: My Nature, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, NY 2000 Richard Thompson: A Survey of Paintings 1990-99, University Art Gallery, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX 1999 Confluence, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO and Pritchard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 1997 Richard Thompson: Pond Vessels/Vessel’s Pond, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, and TX 1995 Richard Thompson: Paintings, University of Wyoming Art Museum, and Laramie, WY Selected exhibitions prior to 1997 include: “Whitney Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art [1975 & 19981]; “Goode Self Portrait Collection”, National Portrait Gallery; “Fresh Paint”, Museum of Fine Art, Houston; “Texas” Groninger Museum, the Netherlands and one person museum and gallery exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Houston, Denver, Singapore, Melbourne, Australia, Santa Fe, Ft. Worth… Selected grants and awards to include: NEA Individual Artist Fellowship; Artist-in-Residence, Roswell Museum, New Mexico; Artist-in-Residence, Australian Arts Board, Gippsland, Australia; Visiting Printmaker, Anderson Ranch, Aspen; New York Foundation for the Arts “MARK” award; “Artist Eye” Kimball Art Museum, Ft. Worth Texas [1990 & 2010] and visiting artist lectures in national and international schools, universities, museums… Selected works in public and private collections: Museum of Modern Art, Ft. Worth; Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Longview Museum of Fine Art, Longview; Albuquerque Museum of Art; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; Portland Art Museum, Portland; OR; Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM; Gund Collection, Boston… Selected teaching experience: Dean and Professor of Painting the School of Art and Design, Alfred University, New York [1997-2008] and Professor, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin [1984-1997]…