richard saxton

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ART and ART HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER, CO, USA 

Richard Saxton is an artist and educator focusing primarily on rural knowledge and landscape. Saxton’s work is conceived through an interdisciplinary cultural framework and can be contextualized through social and site-based art practice. Saxton is the founder and director of M12 STUDIO, a multidisciplinary group that develops projects through dialogical and collaborative approaches. M12 creates and supports new modes of art-making in often rural and remote areas and focuses on experiential practices that explore community identity and the value of often under-represented rural communities and their surrounding landscapes.

Saxton is the editor of several books and as a creative practitioner has worked regionally and internationally with recent exhibitions and commissioned works appearing at The 21st International Art Biennial of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, SITE Santa Fe, Landmark Arts at Texas Tech University, The Plains Art Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design, The Santa Fe Art Institute, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, The 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale; The Kalmar Konstmuseum in Sweden; Franklin Street Works; The Australian Biennial (SPACED); The Biennial of the Americas; The Kohler Arts Center; The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; Wall House #2 in the Netherlands, and The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Richard has a B.F.A. from the University of Nebraska in Omaha and an M.F.A. from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.