| Born | Dayton, Ohio | ||
| Lives and Works | Dobbs Ferry, New York | ||
| EDUCATION | |||
| 1973 | M.F.A, University of California, Irvine | ||
| 1970 | B.A., University of California, Irvine | ||
| AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS | |||
| 1998-1999 | Visual Arts Fellowship, Artist Fellowship Program, California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA | ||
| 1997-1998 | Commissioned Artist, Graphics Arts Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 1984 | First Award, 8th National Exhibition, Los Angeles Print Society, Ed Ruscha, Juror, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 1976 | Visual Arts Fellowship, Visual Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C | ||
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |||
| 2016-17 | "SHAME- 100 Reasons for Turning Red", Deutsches Hygiene -Museum Dresden, Germany | ||
| 2016 | 'SKIN', Los Angeles Muncipal Art Gallery, curated by Scott Canty and Isabelle Lutterodt | ||
| 2014 | "Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present", Leila Heller Gallery, co curated by Paul Morris and Beth Rudin DeWoody, New York, NY | ||
| "A Glimpse into This Side of Paradise", Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, curated by Manon Slome, New York, NY | |||
| 2013 | "Lust Letters", Coagula, LosAngeles, CA | ||
| "Letters from Los Angeles" ( expanded), Los Angeles Art Fair exhibition, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| 2012 | "Letters from Los Angeles, Text in Art", Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| "This Side of Paradise", No Longer Empty, Andrew Freedman House, Curated by Manon Slome, Bronx, NY | |||
| 2011 | "Best Kept Secret, UC Irvine and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California 1964 - 1971", P.S.T. exhibit, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA | ||
| "The Lords + the New Creatures", Nye + Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| 2010 | "Open Kitchen", Da Gallery, Chelsea, NY | ||
| “Pyschedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960’s” curated by David Rubin, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas (catalog) | |||
| “Collecting California, Selections from Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog) | |||
| 2009 | "Ship of Fools”, No Longer Empty, Chelsea Hotel, curated by Michael Bevilacqua and Manon Slome, Chelsea, NY | ||
| “4 Artists”, Kips Gallery, New York | |||
| “Contemporary Confrontations 2009”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY | |||
| “The Art of Democracy”, The New York Society of Etchers, The National Arts Club, New York, NY | |||
| 2008 | “Occult”, The Flat, Massimo Carasi, Milano, Italy | ||
| “The Toy Show”, Hunsaker / Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA | |||
| 2007 | “Tattoo Flash”, Saved Tattoo, curated by Scott Campbell, Brooklyn, NY | ||
| “POPcentric”, Gering & LoPez, curated by Michael Bevilacqua and Sandra Gering, New York, NY | |||
| 2004 | “Disturbing the Peace”, Danese, New York, NY | ||
| “Shakespeare as Muse”, curated by Josine Ianco –Starrels, Schneider Museum of Art, South Oregon Univ., Ashland, OR | |||
| 1998 | "City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist's Grants, 97-98," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park,Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 1997 | "End of the Century: Prints Since 1970 from the Collection," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 1994 | "Printmaking on the West coast," Saddleback Community College, Mission Viejo, CA | ||
| 1993 | "Intersections: Art and Play," The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA | ||
| 1991 | "Individual Realities in the California Art Scene," Sezon Museum of Art,Tokyo, Japan | ||
| 1984 | "California Drawings," Modernism, San Francisco, CA | ||
| 1981 | "Abstraction in Los Angeles,1950 - 1980" Selections from the Ruth and Murray Gribin Collection," Fine Arts Gallery, California State Univ., Northridge, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA | ||
| 1979 | "Black and White are Colors: Paintings of the 1950's - 1970's," Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA | ||
| 1978 | Southern California Styles of the 60's and 70's," La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA | ||
| 1977 | "Abstract Painting: A Selected Exhibition," Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA | ||
| 1976 | "Los Angeles," Penthouse Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | ||
| 1973 | "Kurt Schwitters and Related Developments," La Jolla Museum of Art (now San Diego Museum of Art), La Jolla, CA | ||
| "Market Street Program," Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA | |||
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |||
| 2014 | "Bruce Richards: Future/Past" Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, LA, CA | ||
| 2013 | "Bruce Richards: The Scenery in my Mind," Katherine Cone Gallery, LA, CA | ||
| 2001 | "Bruce Richards," Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA | ||
| 2000 | “Bruce Richards” The Colburn School of Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 1999 | "Bruce Richards," Grand Central Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA | ||
| 1994 | "Reflections and Revisitations," Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | ||
| 1991 | "Recent Works on Paper," The Works Gallery South, Costa Mesa, CA | ||
| 1990 | "Bruce Richards, Narrative Works," Pacific Bell Headquarters, San Ramon, CA | ||
| "Bruce Richards," The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA | |||
| 1989 | "Bruce Richards," Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 1986 | "California Contemporary Artists: Bruce Richards," Laguna Art Museum, South Coast Plaza Site, Costa Mesa, CA (catalog) | ||
| 1985 | "Bruce Richards," Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalog) | ||
| 1984 | "Bruce Richards, Recent Images: Paintings, Watercolors,Monotypes and Etchings," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) | ||
| 1983 | "Recent Works," Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 1982 | "Paintings and Prints," Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA | ||
| 1981 | "Bruce Richards," Laguna Beach Art Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog) | ||
| 1980 | "Bruce Richards," Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| "Bruce Richards," Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |||
| 1979 | "Bruce Richards, A Selection of Paintings and Watercolors," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (catalog) | ||
| 1978 | "White Paintings, Black Drawings," Casat Gallery, La Jolla, CA | ||
| 1977 | "Wet Paint," Morgan Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | ||
| 1976 | "Bruce Richards," Wenger & Casat Galleries, La Jolla, CA | ||
| "Bruce Richards," Morgan Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |||
| 1975 | "Bruce Richards," Jack Glenn Gallery, Newport Beach, CA | ||
| 1973 | "Bruce Richards," Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA | ||
| 1972 | "Bruce Richards," Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA | ||
| CATALOGUES AND EXHIBITION BROCHURES | |||
| 2011 | "Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California 1964 - 1971", Kook-Anderson, Grace, Laguna Art Museum | ||
| "L.A. Rising, SoCal Artists Before 1980", California / International Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| 2009 | "Collecting California, Selections from the Laguna Art Museum", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA | ||
| "Psychedelic, Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960's", Rubin, David S., San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX | |||
| 1999 | "1998-1999, 25 Artists, California Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship Recipients," California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA | ||
| 1998 | "1996-1998, COLA Individual Artist Grants," Nodel,A.,Gamblin, N. City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department,Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 1991 | "Individual Realities in the California Art Scene," Sezon Museum of Art,Tokyo, Japan | ||
| 1984 | "Bruce Richards, Recent Images, Paintings, Watercolors, Monotypes and Etchings," Carroll, Donald, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 1983 | "Bruce Richards, Recent Works," Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 1981 | "Bruce Richards," Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA | ||
| 1979 | "Bruce Richards, A Selection of Paintings and Watercolors," Smith, Michael, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA | ||
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |||
| Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA | |||
| Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA | |||
| Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA | |||
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA | |||
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | |||
| Schneider Museum of Art, South Oregon Univ., Ashland, OR | |||
| SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS | |||
| Southern California Gas Company | |||
| Young & Rubican, New York | |||
| Mr. Peter Alexander, Los Angeles | |||
| Mr. Don Bachardy, Santa Monica, CA | |||
| Mr. Billy Al & Ms. Wendy Al Bengston, Venice, CA | |||
| Ms. Beth Rudin DeWoody, New York, NY | |||
| Ms. Ann Janss, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| Mr. & Mrs. Sonny and Gloria Kamm, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| Mr. & Mrs. Russell and Hannah Kully, San Marino, CA | |||
| Mr. & Ms. Tom and Wendy McNeil, Cain Hoy, SC | |||
| Mr. & Ms. Ted & Suzanne Paulson, Laguna Beach, CA | |||
| Ms. Claudia Parducci, Santa Monica, CA | |||
| Ms. Sarah Perry, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| Mr. & Mrs. Jack and Joan Quinn, Beverly Hills, CA | |||
| Mr. & Mrs. Stewart and Lynda Resnick | |||
| Mr. Ed Ruscha, Venice, CA | |||
| Mr. Paul Ruscha, Winslow, AZ | |||
| Mr. Anton Segerstrom, Costa Mesa, CA | |||
| Mr. Richard Shelton & Ms. Laurie MacDonald, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| Mr. Richard Smith and Pat Forbes, Portland, OR | |||
| Mr. & Ms. Ian and Manon Slome, Riverdale, NY | |||
| Ms. Sharon Twigg-Smith, Honolulu,Hawaii | |||
| Mr. & Mrs. Paul and Liz Walker, Pasadena, CA | |||
