Artist Feature: Richard Dupont
Heads hang like drapery.
The work of Richard Dupont consists of drawings, installations, sculptures, and prints; and concerns themes of the human body, digital technology, memory, perception, and social space.
His most recent work is included in a major exhibition at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital examines digital production in art, architecture and design since 2005. This exhibition will be on view at MAD through July 6, 2014. He is also presenting a monumental public sculpture in front of the museum on Columbus Circle in conjunction with the MAD exhibition and the City of New York.
Richard Dupont (b 1968, New York City) is an American artist. He received a BA from the Departments of Visual Art and Art and Archeology at Princeton University. His solo exhibitions include The Lever House Art Collection, The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, and The Flag Art Foundation. His works are included in the collections of numerous museums including The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The New York Public Library Print Collection. He is co-represented by Tracy Williams, Ltd. and Carolina Nitsch in New York. You can view more of his work here.