Richard Roth

Richard Roth is an artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as L21 Gallery, Mallorca, Spain; Valletta Contemporary, Malta; Pulpo Gallery, Germany; Galerie Rob de Vries, The Netherlands; HICA, Highland Institute of Contemporary Art, Loch Ruthven, Scotland; Rocket Gallery, London; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; David Richard Gallery, NY; The Suburban, Oak Park, IL; Feigen, Inc., Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; OK Harris Gallery, NY; and Castelli Warehouse, NY.

Roth is the co-editor of the book, Beauty is Nowhere: Ethical Issues in Art and Design. His debut novel, NoLab (an artworld thriller), was published in 2019 by Owl Canyon Press. His work was included in the book, 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames and Hudson, 2014.

Roth was the Director of Solvent Space in Richmond, Virginia, 2005 – 2009. He was a faculty member in the Painting and Printmaking Department at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1999 - 2015; he chaired the Department from 1999 – 2008. He has also taught at The Ohio State University, Columbus; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; New York University; the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design – University of Central England; and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1991 he was the recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts. He received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA from The Cooper Union. Richard Roth presently lives and works in Southern California.

Submitted by David Richard Gallery