Background
Richard Van Buren was born on August 5, 1937 in Syracuse, New York, United States.
Richard Van Buren was born on August 5, 1937 in Syracuse, New York, United States.
Richard Van Buren studied painting and sculpture at San Francisco State University and the National University of Mexico.
While still a student, Van Buren began exhibiting his work at San Francisco’s famed Dilexi Gallery.
In 1964, Van Buren relocated to New York.
From 1967 to 1988, he taught in the Sculpture Department at the School of Visual Arts. In 1988, he began teaching at the Parsons School of Design. He remained at Parsons until September 2001.
Van Buren now lives and works in Perry, Maine.
He has held solo exhibitions at Bykert Gallery, New York; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Graduate Center Mall, City University of New York; Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York; Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri; Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, Maine.
Besides, he was included in group exhibitions at The Jewish Museum, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Whitney Museum of American Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Art in General, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Van Buren is known for being active in the New York art world in the 1960s and 1970s.
His work is featured in the collections of major museums around the world, including: the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
