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Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2009       American Color 
              Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertwon, NY 

              Measured Variation (Richard Garrison and Tina Seligman)
             
The Arts Center Gallery, The Saratoga County Arts Council, Saratoga, NY 

2007       Perimeters, The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, NY

2006       Daily Encounters, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY     

             
Out of Place, Rice Gallery, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD 
  

              Writing the Course
, The Albany Academy, Albany, NY 
              (collaboration with 
William R. Bergman)  

2004       Circling Limits, I Space, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, IL

1999       Forms of Desire (Betsy Brandt and Richard Garrison)
              
Rensselaer County Council of the Arts, Troy, NY 

1997       Blueprints, The Teaching Gallery, Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY

1996       Shiny White Plastic, Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, 
 
              Pittsfield, MA

1995       Sites of Fantasy, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009        Queens International 2009                
               
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY 
               (in collaboration with S. P. Weather Station, Long Island City, NY)
   
              
               Karene Faul Alumni Exhibition (upcoming)
               Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY

               Our Present Planet 
               The Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ

               Sight Mapping 
               Herter Gallery, University of Massachussetts Amherst, Amherst, NY 

              Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind
              School of Photographic Arts and Science Gallery
              Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

2008       PATTERN  
              hallway projects, San Francisco, CA 

               Serial Meditations
 
               NurtureArt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

               Fence 08 Select, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY

2007        between to and from  
               Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ  

               Between 316-318

               no. w. here studios, London, UK.


               Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2007               
               Chesterwood Estate and Museum, West Stockbridge, MA   

               Points of Departure: Inner and Outer Journeys in Contemporary Art  
               The Fox Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA  

               
On Your Mark: Contemporary Drawing 
               Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY 


               Here and There 

               The Teaching Gallery, Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY  

               
Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region 
               Albany International Airport Art & Culture Program, Albany, NY     
              
               The Map Show / Charted and Uncharted Territory  
               Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY 

               Landscape Architects, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY

2006       I Can't Quite Place It..., Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY 
           
              Cul-de-Sac: Art from a Suburban Nation, Radford University Art Museum,   
              Radford, VA  

              No Money Down, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ  

              Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2006
 
              Chesterwood Estate and Museum, West Stockbridge, MA 

              Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, U. at Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY 
          
              Michele Drozd, Richard Garrison, George Hofmann, Michael Intrabartola,     
              CoreFineArt,  Hanover, NH  

              The Space Between Us, University at Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY  
     
2005       Structuring Perception, NurtureART Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

              New Turf, Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT  

              Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Albany Institute of History and Art, 
              Albany, NY  

              This is Not an Archive,
Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY 

              Topographic, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2003       Day Job, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY  

              Los Angeles Printmaking Society 17th National Exhibition
              The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA  

              Unplugged, Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY

2002
       Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2002
              Chesterwood Estate and Museum, West Stockbridge, MA 

              Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Albany Institute of History and 
              Art, Albany, NY  

              Out of the Void: The Art of Absence, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, 
              Fredericksburg, VA

2001       Open and Shut: Artists’ Doors, MASS MoCA Kidspace, North Adams, MA

2000       Installations in the Nott, Manderville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady NY

              Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, U. at Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY

1998       Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region
              Albany International Airport Art& Culture Program, Albany, NY 

 

1994       MFA Thesis Candidates, Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 
  
              New Arrivals,
Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY


Selected Bibliography

Markonish, Denise, "Juror's Statement", "Fence 08 Select" Exhibition Brochure, July 2008: 2

Bischoff, Dan. “Artists take measure for its own sake”. Star Ledger 09 January 2008

Maine, Stephen. "Dateline Brooklyn." Artnet Magazine 5 January 2006 (Photo).

Fowler, Hart. "Familiar images populate "Cul-De-Sac". The Roanoke Times. 28 September 2006.

Hankins, Evelyn. Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, "New Turf". 15, 32-33 (Photos).

Artner, Alan G. “I Space offers a daring, must-see group show.” Chicago Tribune 11 June 2004: C7, 29.
 
Hersh, Lela. I Space, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Circling Limits.” Rebecca Cummins, Richard Garrison, Tom Kalin April 2004: 18 – 31 (Photos).

Salatino, Kevin. “Juror’s Statement.” Los Angeles Printmaking Society 17th National Exhibition Catalogue April 2003: 7,35 (Photo).

Bates, Sharon. Unplugged Catalogue May 2003. 2, 6 (Photo).

Carlock, Marty. “Reviews: Stockbridge MA, Contemporary Sculpture 2002, Chesterwood.” Sculpture March 2003: 78.

Jaeger,William. “The Nott that Binds.” Albany Times Union 23 July 2000:I7.

Ellegood, Anne. The Arts Center of the Capital Region, “Juror’s Essay”, Fence 2000 Exhibition Catalogue July 2000:2.

Hu, Zheng. University Art Museum, University at Albany, 2000 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region Catalogue May 2000:18 (Photo).

Lauren, Stacey. “Objectification Lessons, Forms of Desire: Installations by Betsy Brant and Richard Garrison.” Metroland 22 April 1999:21 (Photo).

Hersh, Lela. Schenectady Museum. “Juror’s Essay.” Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region Catalogue May 1998:8, 9, 17 (Photo). 


Artists Registries

Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY 
NurtureArt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
White Columns, New York, NY
The Drawing Center, New York, NY
 
 
Education

1995       Master of Fine Arts, Painting
               Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

1993       Bachleor of Science, Studio Art 
               The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY