Peter Richards1507 Diamond StreetSan Francisco, CA 94131415.970-0182peter@exploratorium.edu

SELECTED INSTALLATIONS & COMMISSIONS

2008, La Sombra Danza, Phoenix, AZ: Permanent installation of a kinetic shade structure for Valley MetroRail System2006, Wave Wall, LIGO, Livingston, LA: Permanent installation of 85’ long by 25’ high wind driven kineticfaçade of a new education center run jointly by MIT and CalTech. Collaboration with Shawn Lani, CharlesSowers, and HPD, Boulder, Co2004, Sky Sweeps, Aberdeen, WA: Permanent installation of three 85’ high kinetic oars (collaboration withSue Richards)2002, Wind Riders, Washington State University, TriCities Campus, Richland, WA: Permanent installationof bicycle wind vanes (collaboration with Sue Richards)1999, Arbor Vitae, Coolbaugh Hall, Colorado School of Mines: Exterior/interior work employing branchingpatterns as a metaphor for learning (collaboration with Ted Prescott)1998, Wind Ride, Kunst in Der Landschaft IV, Güt Gastëil, Prigglitz, Austria: Created a trio of bicycle windvanes (collaboration with Sue Richards)1997, Crapper Obscura, Deep Creek School, Telluride, CO: Converted existing privy into a camera obscura1995, Clapotis (Lake Music), Le Bouveret, Switzerland: Installed a floating acoustic sculpture on LakeGeneva in conjunction with Le Project Léman Animations Chimériques, June – September (collaborationwith Sue Richards)1994, A Companion Place, San Francisco General Hospital: A permanent addition to an existing comfortgarden for hospital staff and AIDS patients, commissioned by S.F. Arts Commission.1994, Le Pont Romain, Vaison La Romaine, France: With students from Ecole D’Art Aix-En-Provence,created a temporary installation on a two thousand year old Roman bridge1991, Byxbee Park , Palo Alto, CA: Developed master plan for 140-acre landfill park and completed a 45-acre portion (collaboration with Michael Oppenheimer and George Hargreaves & Associates)1989, Percival Creek Bridge, South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA: A covered bridgedone in collaboration with George Gonzales1989, The Spring, Art Park, Lewiston, NY: Spring restoration and refuge for park visitors1988, Ice House, Aughinbaugh Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA: Temporary installation,1987, Reflections on Light, Crandon Park Sculpture Garden: Temporary installation, March 16 - May 30,sponsored by Art-in-Public Places, Miami, FL (collaboration with George Gonzales)1986, Wave Organ: The permanent installation of a wave activated acoustical sculpture in San FranciscoBay, sponsored by the Exploratorium (collaboration with George Gonzales)1984, Cascade Flume, Mill Valley, CA: A flume reconnecting a 150-year-old sawmill to its original source ofpower, a temporary installation sponsored by InterArts of Marin1981, Sky Art, Battery Park: Floating luminescent sculpture, sponsored by Creative Times, New York, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007, herbert bayer earthworks, a group exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversaryof the Herbert Bayer earthworks at Mill Creek Canyon, Kent, WA2007, Homage to a Mentor, an exhibition honoring Salvatore Scarpitta, Maryland Institute College of Art,Baltimore, Maryland

2006, Breeching Boundaries: An interdisciplinary Approach, Aughinbaugh Gallery, Messiah College,Grantham, PA2004, Art Seattle Urban Parks Art, an overview of artwork being done in Seattle’s park system, City SpaceGallery, Seattle, WA2003, Water In A New Way, an exhibition exploring water use and environmental impact, SomArts Gallery,San Francisco, CA2001, RE-TIRE, an exhibition addressing issues of tire recycling, The Gallery at Carillon, Charlotte, NC2000, Trouble Shooting Gun Violence, a community exhibition of works examining gun violence duringNRA’s annual meeting, Charlotte, NC1999, Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of Nature in Contemporary Art, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY1996, Wind Works, an exhibition of wind-related artwork, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA (temporaryinstallation with M. Oppenheimer)1995, Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco1994, Old Glory, New Story: Flagging of the 21st Century, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA1994, Le Project Leman Animations Chimeriques, Association L.A.C., Montreux, Switzerland1994, Color in the Shadows: Bay Area Cyberart, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA1987, Twenty Summers Past, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colo.1985, Valentines_Group_Show, San Francisco Art Institute, February1984, All_Ears, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA1983, Audio_Eyes, Artspace, Sunny Hills, Australia

EXPERIENCE

2007 - 2008, Principal Investigator – NSF funded Outdoor Exploratorium Project2007 Adjunct Professor, Standford University2006 Visiting Artist, Messiah College, Granthom, PA2002 – present, Exploratorium, Senior Artist1998 – 2001, McColl Center for Visual Art, Creative Director1997 – 2004, Board of Trustees, Alliance of Artists Communities, past Chair1971 – 1998, Exploratorium, Director of Art Programs1981 – 1982/83, Lecturer, Center for Experimental and Inter-disciplinary Arts, San Francisco State1994 – 1995, Visiting Artist, Ecole d’Art, Aix-En-Provence1996 – 2005, Adjunct Professor, San Francisco Art Institute1996 – 2001, Research Fellow, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon U.1997 – 1998, Visiting Artist, Deep Creek School, Telluride, CO, in conjunction with ASU, Tempe

SELECTED AWARDS

2007, Penny Stamps Lecture Series, University of Michigan1993, Honor Award, American Society for Landscape Architecture, Byxbee Landfill Park1994, Outstanding Achievement, US Conference of Mayors, Byxbee Landfill Park1988, Artist Fellowship, California Arts Council1988, Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco1980, NEA, Art in Public Places Planning Grant1970, Purchase Award, Tenth Annual St. Jude Competition, Santa Clara University, CA1969, Rinehart Prize, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art

EDUCATION

1969, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Baltimore, MD; MFA, 19691966, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO; BA, Art, 1966

Selected Articles and Publicatons

Hazelrigg, George, ASLA: DUMP + ART = PARK, Landscape Architecture, August, 2006, VOL.96 –NUMBER 8

Horton, Paula: Art headed for the Aberdeen waterfront:, The Daily World, Aberdeen, Washington, 8/4/04

Stich, Sidra: art-SITES San Francisco, The Indispensable Guide to Contemporary Art-Architecture-Design;2003, art-Sites, San Francisco, CA

Brown, Patricia Leigh; One Of A Kind: San Francisco Wave Organ, New York Times, 11/17/02

Wilson, Steve: information ARTS: intersections of art, science, and technology, 2002, The MIT Press, MIT,Cambridge, Mass.

Snell, Patricia, Ed.; The Future of Creativity – What role will artists, thinker, and visionary citizens play inbuilding the communities of the future, a narrative report on a symposium organized by The Alliance ofArtists’ Communities, 2001

Like a Prayer: A Jewish and Christian Presence in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue sponsored byTryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, 2001

Richards, Peter; Fusion: Art & Science, essay for exhibition catalogue, Wake Forest University Fine ArtsGallery, Winston-Salem, NC 1999

Morgenroth, Lynda, Waterworks, Orion, Winter, 1998

Beardsley, John, Earthworks and Beyond, 1998, Abbeville Press, New York

Snell, Patricia, Ed.; American Creativity at Risk – Restoring Creativity as a Priority in Public Policy, CulturalPhilanthropy, and Education, a narrative report on a symposium organized by The Alliance of Artists’Communities, 1995

Oakes, Baile, editor, Sculpting With The Environment, 1995, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY

Heartney, Eleanor, Landfill Projects, On View, Journal of public art and design: Vol.I,#I 1995

From Refuse Dump to Public Park, The Alchemy of Byxbee Park, Paysages, 1994

A Curious Alliance: The Role of Art in a Science Museum, The Exploratorium, 1994

The Headlands Journal, Peter Richards: Water and Weather, 1990

Richards, Peter; Ice House, The Exploratorium Quarterly , Summer 1989, pp. 28 - 29

Crinkshank, Jeffery L., Korza, Pam, Going Public: A field guide to developments in art in public places,Visual Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts, 1988

Cullen, Sandy, "Sculptor's art is his environment," Sunday Patriots News, Harrisburg, PA. March 13, 1988

Brechin, Gray, "Cityscapes: New Wave Organ", Focus, June 1986

Snyder, Ruth, "San Francisco Bay Ready to Premiere Its Musical Work," Los Angeles Times, May 30, 1986

Gibbons, Ann, "Bay's all-new music," Peninsula Times-Tribune, March 3, 1986

Macnamara, Mark W., "Symphony in Sea," Image, The San FranciscoChronicle and Examiner, January 19,1986

Pontious, Susan, "Art in Public Places, a priority for our times," Marin_Arts, April 1984

Lewis, Tony, "The Issue of Art in Public Places," The Mill Valley Record, Volume 84, Issue 47, November21, 1984

Wendt, Carol, 360 Sculpture, City Arts Monthly, August 1982

Cole, K.C., "Hers," The New York Times, April 27, 1982

Dackman, Linda, "The Artist and the Sea: Sky and Water, Ft. Point," The Exploratorium Magazine,"Summer 1982

Foley, Suzanne, Space Time Sound Conceptual Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: The 70's, 1981

Stofflet, Mary, "Peter Richards, 80 Langton Street," Art Forum, April 1980

Betts, Michele, "Marking Time," ArtWeek. Volume 11, #11, March 1980