Richard Humann
Subirdia, 2022, 244 x 40 x 40 cm, Stainless steel, speaker, MP3 files
Resident Artist at (Re)Create in the Summer of 2022
Royal List interview: “[...] my ideas are ‘What is important?’ So the concept behind the work is the important thing. I don’t use any particular type of material. There are people that work in stone, there are people that work in wood or in paint. My idea is the prevalent driving force and then the material is secondary to that. So that for me is the idea of conceptualism which is the idea of the concept of the work is the driving force behind the work. Whatever material makes its use is what I end up using. So I’ve worked in film, I’ve worked in augmented reality, I’ve worked in wood, I’ve worked in steel. So material is always secondary for me; it’s a support system to the actual concept.” - Richard Humann
Richard Humann is a Brooklyn-based neo-conceptual artist with numerous international museum and gallery exhibitions, including: the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kemi Art Museum, the Tampere Art Museum, the Youngeun Museum of Art, the Tornio Art Museum, the San Cristóbal Art Museum, the Daelim Art Museum, the Macao Art Museum, the Kaohsiung Museum of Art, Ssamzie Space, and the Espoo Museum of Modern Art.
Richard has been included in the 2003 and 2017 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; the Arbitat Biennial, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; the Taehwa River Arts Festival, Ulsan City, Republic of Korea; and represented the United States in the 2017 Karachi Biennale, Karachi, Pakistan. His gallery exhibitions include: Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY; Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY; Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland; Voorkamer Gallery, Lier, Belgium; Planet Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; and L Gallery, Moscow, Russia. He has been an artist in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY; Himmelblau in Tampere, Finland; The Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy; Ssamzie Space in Seoul, Republic of Korea; (Re)Create Residency in Castlenuovo Calcea, Italy; Oulu-AiR in Oulu, Finland; and the Gyeonggi Creation Center in Daebudo, Republic of Korea. Richard is a recipient of grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the 2016 Pollock-Krasner Award, and has lectured at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, California; Drew University, Madison, New Jersey; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; and Hunerkada College of Visual & Performing Arts, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Richard Humann was born and raised in the Lower Hudson Valley region of New York State. He divides his time between Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
EMMA | Espoo Museum of Modern Art
The Nokia Collection
The Buhl Collection
Kemi Art Museum
Tampere Art Museum
The Karina Jakobi Collection
Sara Hildén Art Museum
Lux Art Collection
Gyeonggi Creation Center
Ssamzie Space
Emily Harvey Foundation
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Moen Collection
Collection of David Byrne
The Sackner Collection