Cory Richardson

I am a contemporary artist of Cocolo heritage, rooted in the Dominican Republic and shaped by the wider Caribbean experience.

My work explores memory and identity through visual narratives drawn from everyday life: domestic labor, rural scenes, communal rituals, and the quiet gestures of Caribbean existence. These images are not nostalgic representations, but active memory structures—fragments of lived experience transformed into contemporary visual language.

Through painting, I construct what I define as a living archive: a body of work that preserves, reactivates, and reinterprets personal and collective memory over time. Each piece belongs to a larger continuum, where repetition, variation, and material process build meaning beyond the individual artwork.

My practice is grounded in physical processes and material presence. The work does not document the past—it keeps it alive, allowing memory to remain present, evolving, and shared.

Independent artistic training through workshops and mentorship with Masters Scroggin, Nilsa de la Cruz, and Ramón Marte.
Additional studies at the Central Romana Painting School and Altos de Chavón School of Design.

Selected works have been exhibited at the Altos de Chavón Archaeological Museum, La Romana, Dominican Republic, as part of curated presentations exploring contemporary Caribbean visual expression.