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Wendy Richmond is a visual artist, writer 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, an American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist residency, and numerous art and design awards.

Richmond’s project “Public Privacy: Wendy Richmond’s Surreptitious Cellphone”
was first shown at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, and was featured
in the New York Times. Her collaborative multimedia installation “Overheard” was
commissioned by CALIT2 at UCSD. Richmond’s upcoming exhibit “Wendy Richmond:
Alone in Public” expands her investigation of the Personal Bubble in urban environments.
It will be on view at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design from May
through November 2012.

Richmond’s teaching experience includes MIT, International Center of Photography, and Harvard University Graduate School of Education where she co-created courses in media and expression.

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 and overneath, a collaboration of photography and dance. Her newest book is Art Without Compromise*