Richard Perkins has exhibited his work in Boston, Sweden, and across Canada. He has an MFA from the University of Guelph, ON, and is currently based in Boston, Massachusetts.
EDUCATION
2001 MFA (PAINTING), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
1997 BFA (STUDIO ART/ART HISTORY), Concordia University.
1992 BA (GEOGRAPHY), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006 The City, Rodman Hall, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario.
2005 The City, Cambridge Galleries (Preston), Cambridge, Ontario.
2002 Models, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
2001 Representing the Absurd, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph, Ontario.
1998 Memory is a Lamp, Helge Ands Ruins, Visby, Sweden.
1998 Pieces of You for Pieces of Me, Kontsmuseet, Visby, Sweden.
1997 Urban Myths, Cafe X, Montreal, Quebec.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Blue, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA.
2008 Arthouse Boston, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA
2007 Massachusetts Artists 2007, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA.
2005 Summer Street Solstice, BCEC, Boston, MA.
2003 KW/AG Biennial, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario.
2002 Guelph 2002, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario.
2002 Southwest Open Competition, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario.
2001 Home, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
2001 Open Juried Competition, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario.
Jury Prize for Painting.
2000 The Helpless Academics, Zavitz Gallery, Ontario.
1997 The Best of Painting and Drawing, VAV Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.
1997 BC Festival of the Arts, Port Alberni, British Columbia.
AWARDS
2002 Canada Council for the Arts, Production Grant to Emerging Artist.
2002 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant to Emerging Artist.
2000 Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
2000 British Columbia Arts Council, Senior Award.
1999 British Columbia Arts Council, Senior Award.
1999 Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Arts Production Grant.
1999 University Graduate Scholarship (University of Guelph).
1999 Board of Graduate Studies Research Scholarship (University of Guelph).
ARTIST IN RESIDENCIES
1998 Brucebo Fine Arts Summer Scholarship (A three month artist in residency in Visby, Sweden)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2000-03
Sessional Instructor in Visual Studies I (Introduction to drawing, painting, photography, and relief printing), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
2001
Instructor in Beginners Acrylic Painting, Guelph School of Art, Guelph, Ontario.
2000
Sessional Instructor in Visual Studies II (Introduction to sculpture, performance, and video), University of Guelph, Ontario.
ARTIST TALKS
2006
Ontario College of Art and Design
Brock University
PUBLICATIONS
Vish Khanna, “Painting the City.” Pulse Niagara. Vol. 20 No. 9., 2006.