Richard Newton

Richard Newton has shown artworks, artists’ books, films & videos and presented live performances and site-specific installations throughout the world. His one-of-a-kind books were shown at DOCUMENTA VI, 1977, in Kassel, Germany. He exhibited photographs based on his In The Privacy of Your Own Home, 1976, at the European Month of Photography, 2018, Berlin, Germany. In 2019, he had a solo exhibition of photographic images at Mucho Mas! in Torino, Italy. This was followed by inclusion in a group show at Kspaces in Torino, where Newton exhibited his photo based study for Los Angeles after the fire.

Richard Newton was born in Oakland, California, 1948, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Irvine. In 1972, he began working with cans, glass bottles, bread, produce and other cast-offs. Partly from a need to survive and partly from a sense of fascination for the abundance of America, his practice of dumpster diving and recycling became a means to create environmental works of art. Beggar’s Banquet, 1972, created from one night’s bounty of discarded fruits and vegetables installed as 2 lavish pyramids was included in the Getty’s “Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945 - 1980.”

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Richard Newton attended graduate art school at University of California Irvine beginning 1971 and finishing in 1973 with an M.F.A.

His fellow students included Chris Burden, Barbara T. Smith, Nancy Buchanan, Robert Wilhite, Barbara Jackson, John Knight, Deirdre Ball, Ned Evans, Mieke Gelley, Verni Greenfield, Rick Dubov, Bruce Richards, John Okulick, Gilbert Lujan, John Curtis, Charles C. Hill, Jay McCafferty, Bradley Smith, Marsha Bailey, and Roger Seeman.

The artist-teachers at the time included Tony DeLap, Vija Celmins, John Mason, John Paul Jones, Craig Kauffman, Ed Moses, and Robert Irwin. Other professors included Philip Leider, Beverly O'Neill, and Moira Roth. Visitors included Barbara Rose and Walter Hopps.

Territories of performance: processes and practices in Italy (1967 - 1982) Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI, Roma, Italy) 2023 continuing.

Territories of performance: processes and practices in Italy (1967 - 1982) Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI, Roma, Italy) 2022

Sunset24, a documentary by Charles Derenne and Edouard de Luze. Featured as myself, an artist living and working in Los Angeles. Premiere, February 19, 2022, Fine Arts Theatre, Beverly Hills

Please Sing Along, 1974, performance art piece by Nancy Buchanan. Featured as a dancer. Screening at how we are in time and space: Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, Barbara T. Smith. Armory, Pasadena, California 2022

Strange Days group show, Kspaces, Torino, Italy, 2021

Lost Angeles, solo exhibition, Mucho Mas!, Torino, Italy 2019

Study #2, Los Angeles after the fire, special event, Opening NESXT @ Kspaces, Torino, Italy, 2019

ASVOFF 11 Documentaries, film festival, Paris, France, 2019

Traction Avenue, Lamy Men, screening, 10th A Shaded View of Fashion film festival, Paris, France 2018

Traction Avenue, Lamy Men, screening, 10th A Shaded View of Fashion film festival, Rome, Italy 2018

European Month of Photography, Boehmers islands group show, Ora...