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Wendy Richmond is a visual artist, author
and educator whose work explores issues of personal privacy, technology and creativity in contemporary culture. After graduating from Wesleyan University with a background in fine arts, design and dance, Richmond began mixing traditional media with new technology at MIT’s Visible Language Workshop. She collaborated with programmers in pioneering work at MIT’s Media Lab, and co-founded the Design Lab at WGBH in Boston. She received her Master’s degree at New York University. |
| Richmond’s photographs, videos, installations and collaborative works
have been exhibited internationally. She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a LEF Foundation grant, the Hatch Award for Creative Excellence, and numerous art and design awards. “Public Privacy: Wendy Richmond’s Surreptitious Cellphone” was first shown at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and was presented at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Privacy Summit conference in Washington, DC, and Carroll and Sons in Boston. Her work was recently featured in the New York Times and on NY1 television, and she was profiled in Wesleyan Magazine. She is currently developing a new body of work titled “Overheard,” and is collaborating with a choreographer, playwright and sound/multimedia artist on several new interdisciplinary theater and performance works. Richmond has taught at MIT, International Center of Photography in New York, and Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where she co-created courses in expression and media. Richmond is a contributing editor at Communications Arts magazine; her regular column “Design Culture” began in 1984. She is the author of Design & Technology: Erasing the Boundaries (Van Nostrand Reinhold) and Overneath, a collaboration of photography and dance. Her new book, Art Without Compromise*, will be published by Allworth Press in the fall. Richmond lives in Brooklyn, New York. | |