Richard Hawkins

Adjunct Professor
Grad Art

Biography

Richard Hawkins (b. 1961 Mexia, TX) is a Los Angeles artist and writer. There is perhaps absolutely no continuity across exhibitions that have focused on haunted house sculptures, collages in the spirit of Tatsumi Hijikata, ceramics patterned after the drawings of Antonin Artaud, Bonnard and Forrest Bess inspired paintings and, more recently,  AI generated videos. The only commonality across bodies of work may be Hawkin’s deep dive into each of his subjects and, more often than not, an old medium gets freshly rejuvenated.

His works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum, New York; Art Institute, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and M+ Museum, Hong Kong among many others. Solo museum presentations include Tate Liverpool; Consortium, Dijon and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Forthcoming in 2025-26, is Potentialities, a survey of works within the last 15 years, premiering at the Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria and continuing on  to the Kestner Gesselschaft, Hannover, Germany.

Richard is represented by Greene-Naftali, New York and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne and Berlin. He also frequently shows with Reena Spaulings Fine Art in its various locations. In 2024 he collaborated with Jonathan W. Anderson and the clothing brand Loewe on their Spring-Summer collection.

Classes

• ART-501-01: Graduate Seminar
• ART-520A-02: Topic Seminar
• ART-520-02: TS: Jutta Koether & Perf Ptg