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Richard Hunt's distinguished career spanned seven decades, from the 1950s to the 2020s, with notable accomplishments, including:
 

  • More than 190 solo exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide, from 1958 to now.

  • More than 350 group exhibitions worldwide.

  • Works represented in more than 130 museum collections worldwide.

  • Received 45 awards, 18 honorary degrees, and 22 professorships and artist in residencies.

  • Served on more than 30 Boards, Councils, Committees, and Panels for major arts organizations during his lifetime.
     

Dive deeper into Richard Hunt's art and life by exploring his Illustrated Biography.

Richard Hunt

Born: September 12, 1935, Chicago

Died: December 16, 2023, Chicago

Education

1957

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Bachelor of Arts Education

Solo Exhibitions

1958

Richard Hunt Sculpture, Alan Gallery, New York, September 29–October 18

1960

Richard Hunt, Stewart Rickard Gallery, San Antonio, January 10–30
Richard Hunt Sculpture, Alan Gallery, New York, October 24–November 12

1962

Richard Hunt, B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago , January 12–February 21

1963

Richard Hunt Sculpture, Alan Gallery, New York, February 25–March 16

Richard Hunt–Sculpture, B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, November 15–December 27

1964

Richard Hunt, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, April

Sculpture of Richard Hunt, Kendall Hall Gallery, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, April 5–30

Richard Hunt, Stewart Rickard Gallery, San Antonio, TX, May 10–17

1965

Richard Hunt: Recent Sculpture, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, January 4–23

Hunt: Sculpture, Drawings and Lithographs, Thorne Hall, Occidental College, Los Angeles, October 18–November 12   

1966

Richard Hunt, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, January 9–February 13

Richard Hunt Sculpture, Ohio State University School of Art, Columbus, OH, February 2–25

Richard Hunt, B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, March 4–April 6

1967

Richard Hunt: Sculpture, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, February 7–26

Sculpture, Prints, Drawings by Richard Hunt, Kendall College, Evanston, IL, Spring 

Sculpture by Richard Hunt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 1–31

Richard Hunt, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, November 3–December 3 **Retrospective**

1968

Richard Hunt, B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, April 1–May 31

Richard Hunt: Welded Metals 1968, Dorsky Gallery, New York, May 14–June 15

1969

Richard Hunt, Dorsky Gallery, New York, April 15–May 15

Richard Hunt, David Strawn Art Gallery, Jacksonville, IL, May 4–25

Richard Hunt, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, October

1970

Sculpture: Richard Hunt, Mitchell Gallery School of Fine Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, January 11–February 6

Richard Hunt, Living Arts Center Gallery, Dayton, OH, February 1–28

Sculpture by Richard Hunt, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, February 9–28

Richard Hunt, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, March

Richard Hunt: Sculpture Lecture & Exhibit, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI, March 23–April 22

Richard Hunt, B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, May 20–June 30

Richard Hunt Drawings, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, September 7–October 13

Richard Hunt, Reicher Gallery, Lake Forest, IL, September 15–October 4

Richard Hunt, Boliou Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, October 21–November 15; traveled to Flaten Gallery, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, November 17–December 10

Richard Hunt: Sculpture/Maquettes/Drawings/Photomurals, Parkside Fine Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI, October 30–November 25

Richard Hunt, Dorsky Gallery, New York

1971

The Sculpture of Richard Hunt, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 25–July 9; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, August 21–October 4 **Retrospective**

Richard Hunt: New Sculptures in Aluminum and Steel, Dorsky Gallery, New York, April 15–June 7

Richard Hunt: Large-Scale Sculpture, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL, Summer

Richard Hunt: Welded Metals, Dorsky Gallery, New York, August 21–October 4

1972

Richard Hunt, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford, Hartford, CT, January 19–February 3

Richard Hunt: Small Sculpture, Drawings, Lithographs, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL February 6–27

1973

Inside & Outside with Richard Hunt, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, May 1–June 30; traveled to and titled Inside with Richard Hunt at Indianapolis Museum of Art, July 3–August 26; Dorsky Gallery, New York, September 1–October 31; and Oklahoma Art Center, October 31–November 30

Richard Hunt Sculpture, Waterloo Municipal Galleries, Waterloo, IA, November 4–November 26

1974

Steel and Bronze Sculpture by Richard Hunt, Department of Fine Art, Mosely Gallery, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD, February 1–March 3

Richard Hunt: Recent Sculpture & Lithographs, Dorsky Gallery, New York, March 12–April 6

1975

Richard Hunt: Selected Sculpture, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, February 4–March 16 

Richard Hunt: Small Sculptures, Drawings, and Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, February 23–March 30

Richard Hunt, University Art Gallery, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO, March 10–14
Richard Hunt: Sculpture/Screenprints, Dorsky Gallery, New York, November 18–December 27

1976

Richard Hunt, Black Cultural Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, February

Richard Hunt: Sculpture, Drawings, and Prints, Sears Bank and Trust Company, Chicago, May 24–July 30

Richard Hunt, B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, October 8–November 12

Richard Hunt, Dorsky Gallery, New York

1977

Richard Hunt: Sculpture, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, March 8–25

The Sculpture of Richard Hunt, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL, May 1–June 5

Richard Hunt: Sculpture, Drawings, Lithographs, Pelham-von Stoffler Gallery, Houston, TX, May 11–29

Richard Hunt: Recent Sculpture, Dorsky Gallery, New York, October 25–November 19

1978

Richard Hunt, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, January 1–February 19

Selected Prints and Sculpture of Richard Hunt, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, February

Richard Hunt, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, February 13–March 3

Richard Hunt Graphics, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, February 5–March 5

Richard Hunt: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, The Art Center, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX, May 6–June 11

Mountain Flight and Selected Works by Richard Hunt, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, September 30–December 17
Richard Hunt: Sculpture, University of Houston, Clear Lake, TX, December

1979

Richard Hunt: Three Places at One Time, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, February 10–April 1; Washington University School of Fine Arts, Steinberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO, February 10–March 16; Washington University School of Fine Arts, Bixby Gallery, St. Louis, MO, February 10– March 16

Richard Hunt, Art Barn Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, February 25–March 25

Richard Hunt, Colorado State University, Department of Art, Fort Collins, CO, April 22–August 8

Richard Hunt: New Sculptures, Dorsky Gallery, New York, April 17–May 19

Richard Hunt: Prints, Sculptures & New Drawings, Lakeside Gallery, Lakeside, MI, May 23–July 31

Richard Hunt Sculptures: 1962–1979, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, September 9–October 28

Richard Hunt, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, October 11–November 18

1979–1980

Richard Hunt: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Azalee Marshall Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX, December 9, 1979–February 2, 1980

Prints by a Sculptor: Richard Hunt, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, December 1–December 29, 1979; traveled to Columbia Museum in the Mall, Baltimore, MD, January 2–January 30; Essex Community College, Baltimore, MD, February 4–March 3, 1980; Arundel Center, Baltimore, MD, April 9–30; Decker College Center, Western Maryland College, Westminster, MD, May 6–June 2, 1980

1980

Richard Hunt, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown State College, Kutztown, PA, January 17–February 7

Richard Hunt, Chi-Wara Gallery, Atlanta, GA, November 6–December 15

Richard Hunt, De Graaf Gallery, Chicago

1981

Richard Hunt, Dorsky Gallery, New York, April 4–25

Richard Hunt, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, February 1–22

Richard Hunt, Maui Unity Art Museum, Maui, HI September 1–30

Richard Hunt, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI, November 10–29

1982

Richard Hunt, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH, Summer

1983

Richard Hunt: Drawings & Prints, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, February 26–March 24

1983–1984

Richard Hunt: An Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Chi-Wara Gallery, Atlanta, GA, December 10, 1983–January 15, 1984

1984

Richard Hunt, Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, April 10–May 19 

Richard Hunt: Recent Sculpture, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, March 3–April 5

1985

Richard Hunt, McGrath Art Gallery, Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY, March 2–April 5

Richard Hunt, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI, March 1–April 27

Richard Hunt, Martin Gallery, Washington, DC, October

1986

Outside In: Public Sculpture by Richard Hunt, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, January 17–February 28

Richard Hunt: Sculpture & Graphics, Kilcawley Center Art Gallery, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, January 29–February 22

Richard Hunt: Recent Sculpture, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, April 5–May 1

1987

Richard Hunt, De Graaf Gallery, Chicago, May 1–27

The Work of Richard Hunt, ABC Entertainment Center, Century Plaza Towers, and other sites, Century City, Los Angeles Art Commission, Los Angeles, June–December 1987

Richard Hunt: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Dorsky Gallery, New York, November 5–28

1987–1988

Growing Orbit: Richard Hunt, The Black Cultural Center, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, February

Richard Hunt: Sculptures et dessins, Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles; traveled to multiple venues in Africa, including: Lagos, Nigeria; Monrovia, Liberia; Accra, Ghana; Cotonou, Benin; Lomé, Togo; Dakar, Senegal; and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

1988

Richard Hunt: Exhibition of Sculptures, Lithographs & Photo Murals, Gallery of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, April 10–June 3

Richard Hunt, De Graaf Fine Art, Chicago, May

Richard Hunt: Sculpture and Drawings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, September 19–November 25

Richard Hunt, Eastern Michigan University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI, November–December

1988–1989

Richard Hunt: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Stewart Center Gallery, Purdue University Gallery, West Lafayette, IN, August 22–September 25, 1988; traveled to Waterloo Municipal Galleries, Waterloo, IA, November 13–December 22, 1988; Eugene Johnson Gallery of Art, Bethel College, St. Paul, MN, January 3–February 8, 1989

Richard Hunt: Outdoor Sculpture, Harper College, Palatine, IL

1989

Richard Hunt: Lithographs, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL, January 17–March 10

The Sculpture and Drawings of Richard Hunt, Dorsky Gallery, New York, April 6–29

1990

I've Been to the Mountain: Drawings and Sculpture Maquettes by Richard Hunt, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, January 14–February 25

Richard Hunt, McHenry County College Art Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL, January 15–February 12

Richard Hunt, Art Gallery, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, February

Richard Hunt Sculpture: Past, Present, Future, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, March 30–May 6

Richard Hunt: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI, June 16–July 21

Richard Hunt, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, September 7–October 13

Richard Hunt, University Art Museum, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, November 16–December 21

1991

Richard Hunt, University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, FL, January 5–February 8

Richard Hunt, Governors State University, University Park, IL, February 2–28

Richard Hunt Sculpture, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, April 26–June 1

Richard Hunt: Recent Sculpture, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, November 21–December 5

Richard Hunt: Public Sculptures, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, June 23–September 30

1992

Richard Hunt, Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, July 3–July 27

Richard Hunt, Fine Arts Gallery, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, September 16–October 16

1993

Richard Hunt: Contemporary Master of Sculpture, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, February 5–March 14

1994

Richard Hunt: A Sculptor on Paper, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE, August 2–October 16

Richard Hunt, Woodlot Gallery, Sheboygan, WI, June 10–October 31

Richard Hunt: Starwalk, University Museum at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

1995

Richard Hunt, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI, April

Richard Hunt: New Sculptures, Worthington Gallery, Chicago, September 8–October 31

Richard Hunt, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI

1996

Richard Hunt: Recent Works, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC, April 5–May 1

Richard Hunt: Prints, Drawings, and Sculptures, Old Town Studio and Art Gallery, Lansing, MI, May 5–June 30

Richard Hunt: Sculptor & Printmaker, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, August 10–12

Richard Hunt, Worthington Gallery, Chicago, November 8–December 31

1996–1998

Richard Hunt: Growing Forward, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, June 16–September 1; traveled to The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, December 18, 1996–June 29, 1997; The Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, August 5–October 5, 1997; Illinois Art Gallery, April 3–May 29, 1998

1997

Richard Hunt: Recent Sculpture, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, February 11–March 29

Richard Hunt, The Dorsky Gallery, New York, September 30–October 25

1998

Richard Hunt: Affirmations, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, March 14–June 21 **Retrospective**

Richard Hunt Sculptor, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI, March 14–May 2 

Balancing Act: Sculpture by Richard Hunt, Illinois State Museum, Chicago and Springfield, IL, August 1–September 7

Richard Hunt: Linked Forms, Maximilianpark Hamm, Hamm, Germany, April 19–June 21

Richard Hunt: New Sculpture and Works on Paper, Worthington Gallery, Chicago, November 6–December 31

Richard Hunt, Lakeside Gallery, Lakeside, MI
Richard Hunt, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI

1999

Richard Hunt: Sculpture, Models, Works on Paper, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, June 10–November 11

Richard Hunt: Public Works, Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO, ​​August 5–October 3

2000

Richard Hunt, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA, January 11–March 3

Richard Hunt, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

2000–2001

Richard Hunt: American Visionary, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, September 17, 2000–January 3, 2001

2001

Richard Hunt, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA, January 13–March 3

Richard Hunt: Wings, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, February 8–March 23

Richard Hunt, Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC, May 1–June 2

2002

Richard Hunt, Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA, October 4–November 23

2003–2004

Sculptor's Choice: Making and Collecting, Krasl Art Center, Benton Harbor, MI, November 1, 2003–January 3, 2004

2004

In Honor of Progress...The Sculpture of Richard Hunt, H.C. Taylor Gallery, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, May 7–July 30

2006

Richard Hunt: Sculptures, Worthington Gallery, Chicago, September 14–October 14; traveled to Worthington Gallery West, Pleasanton, CA, October 21–November 30

2007

Richard Hunt: Lithographs and Sculpture, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL, January 30–February 28

Richard Hunt: Past & Present, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN, September 15–December 9

2008

The Art of Richard Hunt, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN, March 1–March 30

Shaping the Spirit: Recent Sculpture by Richard Hunt, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH, September 5–October 25

2009

Sculpture of Richard Hunt, William W. Crapo Gallery, Swain School of Design, New Bedford, MA, January 13–January 30

Richard Hunt: Promethean Mythmaker, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, February 6–March 31

Richard Hunt, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, April 17–May 30

Richard Hunt: Legendary Sculptor, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, May 1–June 30

Richard Hunt, David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York, Summer

Richard Hunt: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Art and Design Gallery, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, October 2–29

2010

Richard Hunt: Visions and Revisions, Willis Tower, Chicago, January 23–May 7

Richard Hunt: Improvisations on Modernism, Belian Art Center, Troy, MI, August 27–October 8

Richard Hunt: A Force of Nature, Th!nkArt Salon, Chicago, October 7–December 10

Richard Hunt, 515 North State Street, Chicago

2011

Richard Hunt Sculpture and Works on Paper, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, April 9–July 10

Richard Hunt: Sculptures, David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, June 2–23

2012

Richard Hunt: Drawing in Space, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York, April 1–29

Richard Hunt: Mutable Currency Past and Present, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, June 1–August 11

Richard Hunt: Extending Form, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN, July

Richard Hunt Sculpture, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, August 21–November 16

2013

Richard Hunt, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL

2014

Richard Hunt, The Art of This Century, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, MI, October 3, 2013–January 25, 2014

2014–2015

Art in the Garden, Contemporary at Blue Star, San Antonio Botanical Garden, San Antonio, TX, February 28, 2014–January 31, 2015

Richard Hunt: Sixty Years of Sculpture, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, December 6, 2014–March 29, 2015
**Retrospective**

MCA: DNA Richard Hunt, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, December 13, 2014–May 17, 2015

2015

Somewhere There’s Music: An Exhibition Honoring Richard Howard Hunt, Governors State University, University Park, IL, August 24–September 26

2015–2016

The Public Life of Richard Hunt: 21st Century Projects, Krasl Art Center, Saint Joseph, MI, June 26–September 13, 2015; traveled to the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, November 5, 2015–January 26, 2016

2016

Richard Hunt: Framed and Extended, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, July 14–October 30

2017

Richard Hunt: American Sculptor, McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN, September 20–October 29

2018

Sculpting a Chicago Artist: Richard Hunt and his Teachers: Nelli Bar and Egon Weiner, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, July 12–September 14

2018–2019

Richard Hunt: Synthesis, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, October 20, 2018– February 3, 2019

Richard Hunt: Graceful Fluidity, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, December 21, 2018–September 2, 2019

2020–2021

Richard Hunt: Scholar’s Rock or Stone of Hope or Love of Bronze, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, September 17, 2020–September 20, 2021

2022

Richard Hunt: Details, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, February 25–July 4

2022–2023

Richard Hunt: Monumental, KANEKO, Omaha, NE, October 13, 2022–February 5, 2023

2023

Richard Hunt, Governors State University, University Park, IL

2024

Richard Hunt: Early Masterworks, White Cube, New York, March 13–April 13

2024–2025

Richard Hunt: From Paper to Metal, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX, October 12, 2024–March 2, 2025

Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL, October 25, 2024–April 20, 2025; traveled to Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, July 11–November 15, 2025

Line to Form: Richard Hunt's Prints and Sculpture, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, September 4, 2024–January 5, 2025

2025

Richard Hunt: Metamorphosis—A Retrospective, White Cube, Bermondsey, London, April 25–June 29
**Retrospective**

2025–2026

Richard Hunt: Pressure, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL, December 2, 2025–March 29, 2026

Selected Group Exhibitions

*Additional group exhibitions are available in the Richard Hunt CV PDF

1955

58th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, June 2–July 4

1956

59th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago March 8–April 12

1957

62nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, January 17–March 3

Chicago Artists No-Jury Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, February 2–26

Recent American Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, March 14–April 30

60th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago May 8–June 9

Irons in the Fire: An Exhibition of Metal Sculpture, Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston Museum of Contemporary Art), Houston, TX , October 17–December 1

1958–1959

Annual Exhibition of Sculpture, Painting, Watercolors, Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 19, 1958–January 4, 1959

The 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, December 5, 1958–February 8, 1959

1959

Two Centuries of American Art 1750-1950, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, October–December

1959–1960

Recent Sculptures U.S.A., Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, May 13–August 16, 1959; traveled to Denver Museum of Fine Arts, Denver, CO, October 12–November 22, 1959; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, February 22–April 3, 1960; City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, May 3–June 12, 1960; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, September 14–October 16

63rd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, December 2, 1959–January 31, 1960

1960

Selections from the Art Lending Service, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, March 24–Apr 17

Aspects de la sculpture américaine, New Sculpture Group: Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, October

1961

64th Annual American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, January 6–February 5

The New Sculpture Group, Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago, March 10–April 6
64th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, March 30–May 28

1961–1962

1961 International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, October 27, 1961–January 7, 1962

1962

65th American Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, January 5–February 18

Art Since 1950: American and International, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, WA, April 21–October 21

65th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, May 4–June 3

The First Five Years, Acquisitions by the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957–1962, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 16–June 17

1962–1963

Forty Artists under Forty, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 23–September 16, 1962; traveled to Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, October 14–November 18, 1962; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, December 2–31, 1962; Roberson Memorial Center, Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, January 15–February 17, 1963; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, March 3–31, 1963; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, April 14–May 12, 1963; Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 26–June 23, 1963; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, July 7–August 4, 1963

 

Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, October 3, 1962–January 6, 1963

 

Annual Exhibition 1962: Sculpture and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 12, 1962–February 3, 1963

1963

Eleventh Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1963, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, Urbana, IL, March 3–April 7

Century of Negro Progress, McCormick Place, Chicago, August 16–September 2

1964

An Exhibition of Sculpture by Varujun Boghosian, Erwin Hauer, Richard Hunt and Charles Wilson, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT, March 10–April 18

1964–1965

Annual Exhibition 1964: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 9, 1964 –January 31, 1965

1965

Seven Americans, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, February 20–March 21

1966

World Festival of Negro Art: Ten Negro Artists from the United States/Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Negres: Dix Artistes Negres des Etats-Unis, U.S. Committee for the first World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal and Washington, DC, April 1–24

Twenty-sixth Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 8–May 8

1966–1967

The Negro in American Art: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Afro-American Art, UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, September 11–October 16, 1966; traveled to UC Davis, Davis, CA November 1–December 15, 1966; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA, January 6 –February 12, 1967; Oakland Art Museum, Dickson Art Galleries, Oakland, CA, February 24– March 19, 1967

Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 16, 1966–February 5, 1967

1968

Sculpture, Murals and Fountains at Hemis Fair '68, San Antonio Fair, San Antonio, TX, April 6–October 6

39th Arts Festival Exhibition – Sculpture by Richard Hunt; paintings by Sam Middleton, The Art Gallery, Fisk University, Nashville, TN, April 21–May 17

Art in Illinois: 150th Anniversary of Illinois’s Statehood and 75th Anniversary of the Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, June 15–September 8

Hunt’s John Jones and Gallo’s Daniel Pope Cook, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, October 28–December 1

In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 31–November 3

1968–1969

1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 17, 1968–February 9, 1969

1968–1970

30 Contemporary Black Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, October 17–November 24, 1968; traveled to Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan, MI, February 1–March 2; IBM Gallery, New York, April 28–May 29, 1969, Houston Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, January 20–February 16, 1970

1969

Tamarind: Homage to Lithography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 29–June 30

Contemporary Black Artists, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, July 1–31

1970

Tamarind Impressions, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 2–August 20; traveled to South America

Important Graphics by Twentieth Century Masters, Dorsky Galleries, New York, March 4–22

1970–1971

1970 Annual Exhibition Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 12, 1970–February 7, 1971

1971

Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 6–May 16

Sculpture: Richard Hunt and Barbara Chase-Riboud, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, July

The De Luxe Show, The Menil Foundation, Houston, TX, August 15–September 12

1972

Reflections: the Afro-American Artist: An Exhibit of Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphics, Benton Convention Center, Winston-Salem, NC, October 8–15

1973

Sculpture: Richard Hunt and Barbara Chase-Riboud, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, July

1973–1974

Highlights from the Atlanta University Collection of Afro-American Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA; Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL, January 15-February 24, 1974; Delta Fine Arts, Inc. Winston-Salem, NC, March 15–April 15, 1973; Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN, June 1-July 15, 1974; DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago

1974

Sculpture in the Park, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, August–November

Directions in Afro-American Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, September 18–October 27

Sculpture Down to Scale, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

1974–1975

American Prints: 1913–1963, Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 3, 1974–March 3, 1975

1975

Important Works by Richard Hunt and Henry Moore, Dorksy Galleries, New York, May 6–June 7

Prints by Sculptors, Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 21–September 1

Sculpture: American Directions (1945–1975), Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC, October 3–November 30

1975–1976

Amistad II: Afro-Amerian Art, Fisk University (Preview); Minneapolis, Minnesota (Preview); Studio Museum of Harlem (Opening); Princeton University Chapel; Old First Reformed Church, Philadelphia; Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Washington, DC; Illinois State University; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; North Carolina A&T University; Jackson State University; Tougaloo College; Old Capital Museum, Jackson, Mississippi; University of Cincinnati; Birmingham Museum of Art; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee; Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts; Dignity House, St. Louis, Missouri; LBJ Library, Austin, Texas lowa State University; University of Kansas; Kansas State University; Washington State University; Albany (New York) Institute of History and Art Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site, Buffalo, NY

1976

Abstract Art in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, March 6–April 25

Paintings and Sculpture by Midwest Faculty-Artists: An Exhibition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, April 4–May 2; traveled to Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, May 18–July 3

Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY, April 14–June 14

14 Afro-American Artists, Pratt Institute Gallery and Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY, December 1–21

1976–1977

West Coast '76, The Chicago Connection, 1976 Invitational Exhibit, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery Sacramento, CA, November 6, 1976–January 2, 1977; traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum Newport, CA, January 29–March 13, 1977; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, June 10–July 17, 1977; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN, July 29–September 11, 1977; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, September 30–November 13, 1977

1977

Thirty Years of American Printmaking, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

1978

Twenty Contemporary Printmakers, Pennsylvania State University, College Park, PA

Sculptures and Constructions From the Twentieth Century, New Jersey State Museum, Newark, NJ

1979

3 Sculptors: Chase-Riboud, Edwards, Hunt, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, May 13–June 29

Gifts of Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, August 9–November 13

1980

In Celebration: Six Black Americans, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, January 20– March 30

1980–1982

P.S.1 Afro-American Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art PS1 (P.S.I Project Studio One), New York February 17–April 6, 1980; traveled to San Francisco; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles; Oakland; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery; and other locations

1982

Paper : The Continuous Thread, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, August 31–October 24

1983

The Sculptor as Draftsman: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 15–November 13

1983–1984

20th Century Sculpture: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, May 18–October 31, 1983; extended into 1984

1984

African American Art in Atlanta: Public and Corporate Collections, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA,
May 11–June 17

1984–1985

Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, April 13–June 6, 1984; traveled to Amelie A. Wallace Art Gallery, SUNY College, Westbury, NY, November 1–December 9, 1984; Munson-Williams- Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, January 11–March 3, 1985; University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 27–May 3, 1985; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA , July 19–September 1, 1985; Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, September 22–November 1, 1985

East/West: Contemporary American Art, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, July 22, 1984–January 15, 1985

1985

Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade 1963-1973, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, January 27–June 30, 1985; traveled to Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA; The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY; Museum of the Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA; New York State Museum, Albany, NY; David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK; Tower Fine Arts Gallery, State University College, Brockport, NY

Drawing Acquisitions: 1981–1985, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 11–September 22

Choosing: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans, 1925–1985, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; traveled to Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA; Chicago State University, Chicago; Howard University, Washington, DC

1985–1986

His Light Still Shines: A Celebration of the Life and Message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., King Center, Atlanta, GA, October 29, 1985; traveled to St. Louis Centre, St. Louis, MO, March 10 1986–March 22 1986; Memphis Pink Palace Museum, Memphis, TN, March 27–April 7, 1986; The Park in Houston Center, Houston, TX, August 11–22, 1986; Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA, September;  Wayne County Community College, Detroit, MI, October 29–November 9, 1986; State Capitol Rotunda, Lansing, MI, November

1986

Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, October 12–December 28 

Prints by American Negro Artists from the Ruth Waddy Collection, DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago

1986–1987

Twentieth-Century Minority Art Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, November 1, 1986–January, 1987
The Banks Family Collection, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, November 14, 1986–February 22, 1987

1987

Art in Public Places, Museum of African-American Art, Los Angeles, April 15–August 30

1987–1989

U.S.A. Printworks: Selections from the Brandywine Workshop, Bamako, Mali, October 15, 1987–January 30, 1988; Freetown, Sierra Leone, October 15-November 15, 1987; 12 other sites 1988–1989

1988

The New Sculpture Group—A Look Back, 1957–1962, New York Studio School, New York, March 8–April 8

1989

Traditions and Transformations: Contemporary Afro-American Sculpture, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, February 21–May 27

Sculpture Tour 88/89, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Beautifying Wichita Through Sculpture, Project Beauty, Inc., Wichita, KS

1989–1990

The Appropriate Object, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, March 5–April 23, 1989; traveled to The Detroit Institute of Arts , Detroit, May 15–July 15, 1989; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, August 26–October 15, 1989; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, November 13, 1989–January 7, 1990

African-American Abstractions in Printmaking from the Brandywine Graphic Workshop, California African American Museum, Los Angeles; traveled to African-American Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, CA

1991

50th Anniversary Gala Weekend, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, November 22

1991–1992

Works on Paper by Black American Artists, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, December 24, 1991–March 1, 1992

Abstract Sculpture in America, 1930-1970, American Federation of Arts organized; traveled to Lowe Art Museum University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, February 7–March 31, 1991; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA, April 19–June 30, 1991; Akron Art Museum Akron, OH, August 24–October 20, 1991; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, November 9, 1991–January 4, 1992; Musée du Québec, Québec, Canada, January 25–March 21, 1992;  Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, April 11–June 7, 1992

1992–1993

Two Sculptors, Two Eras: Richmond Barthé and Richard Hunt, Terra Museum of American Art Chicago, December 1992; Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, February 1993; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

1992–1994

Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1993

The Flowering: African-American Artists and Friends in 1940s Chicago: A Look at the South Side Community Art Center, Illinois Art Gallery, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, April 7–May 28

1993–1995

The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African-American Art, Studio Museum in Harlem New York, September 12, 1993–July 3, 1994; traveled to 14 other venues

1994

20th-Century American Sculpture in the White House Garden, White House: Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, Washington, DC, October

Stylistic Dualism, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH, October

1995–1996

The Listening Sky: An Inaugural Exhibition of the Studio Museum in Harlem Sculpture Garden, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, September 15, 1995–October 27, 1996

1996

Landfall Press: Twenty Five Years of Printmaking, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, September 13–November 10; traveled to three other venues

1996–1997

Art in Chicago, 1945–1995, MCA Chicago, Chicago, November 16, 1996–March 23, 1997

1997

20th-Century American Sculpture in the White House Garden, Exhibition V, White House: Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, Washington, DC

1998

Giacometti to Judd: Prints by Sculptors, Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 9–October 13

1999

Carved, Modelled, Assembled, Welded, Drawn, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, February 26–May 20

20th Century American Sculpture at The White House, Exhibition VIII, White House: Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, Washington, DC

1999–2000

Presage of Passage: Sculpture for a New Century, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT, November 3, 1999–March 18, 2000

1999–2001

When the Spirit Moves: African American Art Inspired by Dance, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH, August 8–November 28, 1999; Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, January 22–April 23, 2000; Camille Love Crosby Museum, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, June 20–November 18, 2000; Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC, February 15–June 2, 2001

2002–2003

Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 16, 2002–April 20, 2003

2003

A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 15–May 18 

Then and Now, A Selection of 19th and 20th Century Art by African-American Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, March–Summer 

GENERATIONS: African-American Art in the VMFA Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, June 21–November 30

2003–2004

American Vision: African American Sculptors, 19th Century–21st Century, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, October 10, 2003–December 17, 2004

2003–2008

Living with Art: Modern & Contemporary African American Art from the Collection of Alitash Kebede, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, January 1–March 31, 2003; traveled to Center For Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, October 1–December 31, 2003; Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, January 23–February 29, 2004; Smith Robertson Cultural Center, Jackson, MS, July 14–October 31, 2004; Stark University Center Galleries, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, January 19–March 19, 2006; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, June 3–August 27, 2006; Shaw Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, January 26–April 27, 2007; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, May 31–September 2, 2007; Bermuda National Gallery of Art, Hamilton, HM 11, Bermuda, October 8, 2007–January 4, 2008

2006

GENERATIONS: African-American Art in the VMFA Collection, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, January 19–March 12

2004–2006

Images of America, African American Voices: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Walker, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, NC, January 9–March 27, 2004; traveled to Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA, July 23–September 26, 2004; Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, June 11–September 17, 2005; Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, September 15–November 11, 2006

2007

Works on Paper by African American Artists, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, January 14–February 25

2008

Energy and Inspiration: African-American Art from the Permanent Collection, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, January 14–April 9

2009

184th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design, New York, April 16–June 10

2010

From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, January 29–May 9

Recession, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, April 2–May 2

Chicago Stories: Prints, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, May 16–September 8

2011

You Can't Desert the Muse: Focus on Recent Print Acquisitions, Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA, April 17–June 5

2012

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, Smithsonian American Art Museum + Multiple, April 27–September 3 

Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, September 7–November 25

2012–2013

Contemporary Memories: Selections from the Collection of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Amistad Foundation, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, October 28, 2012–April 21, 2013

2013–2014

The Dianne Whitfield-Locke & Carnell Locke Collection: Building on Tradition, Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 12, 2013–May 12, 2014

2014

Carved, Cast, Crumpled: Sculpture All Ways, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, September 27–December 21

2015

America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 1–Sept 27

2015–2016

The Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2015–April 4, 2016

Soldier, Spectre, Shaman: The Figure and the Second World War, Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 24, 2015–April 3, 2016

2018

A Creative Journey: The Collection of Judy and Patrick Diamond, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, February 3–July 29

The Time is Now: Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, September 13–December 30

2019–2020

Sculpture Down to Scale: Models for Public Art at Federal Buildings, 1974 – 1985, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, May 31, 2019–November 22, 2020

Duro Olowu: Seeing, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, February 29, 2019–September 13, 2020

Theaster Gates: Assembly Hall, Walker Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN, September 5, 2019–January 12, 2020

African American Art from Private Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, November 12, 2019–March 1, 2020

2019–2021

Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, January 16–April 14, 2019; traveled to Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, May 24–August 18, 2019; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, September 13–December 8, 2019; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, January 17–April 12, 2020; Utah Museum of Fine Arts,  Salt Lake City, UT, January 23–April 10, 2021; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, May 22–August 15, 2021

2021

The De Luxe Show, Karma, New York, August 12–September 25; traveled to Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, August 12–September 18

Contemporary Gallery Reinstall, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

2022

Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, February 20, 2022–June 26, 2022

2022–2024

The Inaugural Collection Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, April 9, 2022–April 9, 2024
Art and Activism at Tougaloo College, American Federation of Arts organized; traveled to The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, October 22, 2022–January 16, 2023; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK, February 18–May 14, 2023; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, June 10–September 10, 2023; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA, October 7, 2023–January 28, 2024

2025

Paris Noir, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, March 19–June 30

2025–2026

Critical Fabulation, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago , October 10, 2025–January 4, 2026

2025–Current

Reimagine African American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, October 18, 2025–Current

Selected Public Collections

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX

Applewood–Ruth Mott Foundation, Flint, MI

Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara

Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

The British Museum, London, England

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA

David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, Chicago

Elmhurst University Art Collection, Elmhurst, IL

Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI

Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Glenstone, Potomac, MD

Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT

Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

The Jewish Museum, New York

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI

Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL

Komechak Art Gallery, Benedictine University, Lisle, IL

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Krasl Art Center, Saint Joseph, MI

Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Loyola University Chicago, Chicago

Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN

McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH

Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI

Museum Moderner Kunst (mumok), Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC

Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governors State University, University Park, IL

National Academy of Design, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY), New York

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Durham, NC

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA

The Obama Presidential Center, Chicago

Paul R. Jones Museum, University of Alabama Museums, Tuscaloosa, AL

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, IL

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, New York

SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York

Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

SFMOMA, San Francisco

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO

Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN

Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA

Tougaloo College Art Collections, Tougaloo, MS

Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA

UCF Art Gallery, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

University Museum at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Selected Awards and Professional Activities

Awards

1951

National Scholastic Art Award

1953

National Scholastic Art Award (received twice in 1953)

1956

Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Medal and Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago

1957

James Nelson Raymond Traveling Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

​Pauline Palmer Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago

1961

Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Medal and Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago

1962

Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Medal and Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago

Walter M. Campana Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago

1962–1963

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

1965

Tamarind Artist Fellowship, Ford Foundation

1970

Award, Cassandra Foundation

1978-1979

Distinguished Louis D. Beaumont

1980

James Van Der Zee Lifetime Achievement Award, Brandywine Workshop and Archives

1985

Certificate of Appreciation, Southern Illinois University

1988

Award of Distinction, National Council of Art Administrators

1990

Sidney R. Yates Art Advocacy Award, Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation

1992

Illinois Academy of Fine Arts Award

1993

Laureate, Lincoln Academy of Illinois

1997

Artist Award, The Studio Museum in Harlem

1998

Distinguished Artist, Union League Club of Chicago

Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters

1999

Chicago African American History Maker Award, The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, Chicago

Member, National Academy of Design

2001

The Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal, Artists’ Fellowship

2003

Harry W. Watrous Prize and Elizabeth N. Watrous Medal, National Academy of Design

2004

Archibald Motley Jr. History Maker Award for Distinction in Visual Arts, Chicago History Museum

2005

Malvina Hoffman Artists Fund Award, National Academy of Design

2007

Cultural Arts and Diversity Award, Lake Michigan College

2009

Charlotte Dunwiddie Prize, National Academy of Design

​Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center

2010

Legacy Award, United Negro College Fund

2011

Ruth Horwich Award to a Famous Chicago Artist, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affair

2014

Fifth Star Award, City of Chicago

Lifetime Achievement Award, Howard University

2015

Alain Locke International Art Award, Detroit Institute of Arts

Lifetime Achievement Award, Partners for Livable Communities

Marion M. Lloyd Life Trustee Award, Ravinia Festival

2017

Legendary Landmarks Honoree, Landmarks Illinois

2022

Legends and Legacy Award, The Art Institute of Chicago

Richard Hunt Day proclaimed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, City of Chicago, June 10

2023

Chicago Public Library Foundation Arts Award

​Dorsky Lifetime Achievement Award, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

Music of the Baroque Honoree, Chicago

Richard Hunt Day proclaimed by Governor J.B. Pritzker, State of Illinois, April 24

Professional Activities

1968–1974

Member, National Council on the Arts

1970–1975

Member, Illinois Arts Council

​1972–1976

Board of Directors, College Art Association

​1974–1981

Board of Trustees, Ravinia Festival

​1974–1994

Board of Directors, American Council for the Arts

1975

Special Projects Advisory Panel, National Endowment for the Arts

​1975–1979

Board of Trustees, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

1977–1997

Visiting Committee on the Visual Arts, University of Chicago

​1978–1979

International Exhibitions Committee, American Federation of Arts

1978–1983

Committee on Art and Architecture, University Council, Yale University

1979–1984

Board of Governors, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

1980–1982

Board of Trustees, American Academy in Rome

1980–1988

Commissioner, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

1981–1989  

Board of Trustees, Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago

1982–1983

Expansion Arts Advisory Panel, National Endowment for the Arts

1982–1988

Founder and President, Chicago Sculpture Society

1983–1987

National Chairman, Alumni Council, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

​1983–1992

Board of Trustees, Ravinia Festival

1984–1988

Advisory Committee, Getty Center for Education in the Arts

​1984–1996

Board of Trustees, International Sculpture Center

1985–1991   

Board of Governors, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1986

Media Arts Advisory Panel, National Endowment for the Arts

1994–1997

National Board, Smithsonian Institution

1995

Art Advisory Council, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art (formerly Snite Museum of Art), University of Notre Dame

1996–2014

Board of Directors, The Arts Club of Chicago

​1996–2001

Board of Trustees, Ravinia Festival

​1997

Board of Directors, International Arts and Artists

2002

Life Trustee, Ravinia Festival

2003–2023

Loyola University Chicago, Board of Regents

2023

Founder, Richard Hunt Legacy Foundation

Selected Professorships and Artist Residencies

1960–1961

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

1960–1962

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago

​1964

Yale University, New Haven, CT

1964–1965

California Institute of the Arts (formerly Chouinard Art School), Los Angeles

1965

Purdue University, Lafayette, IN

1968

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

1968–1969

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

1969 

Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh, WI

1969

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

1970

Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL

​1975

University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN

1977

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

1977–1979

Washington University School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO

1981–1989  

Board of Trustees, Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago

1980 

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1982

Utah State University, Logan, UT

1984

Albany State University, Albany, GA

​1985

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

1988

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

1989–1990

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1990 

Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI

1990

State University of New York, Binghamton, NY

1997

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Honorary Degrees

1972

Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL

1973 

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

​1976

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

​1977

Illinois State University, Normal

1979

Colorado State University, Fort Collins       

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

​1984

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

1986 

Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL

​1987

Roosevelt University, Chicago

1991

Tufts University, Medford, MA

​1996

Columbia College, Chicago

1997

Governors State University, University Park, IL

2004

North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro

2007

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

​2013

Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

2015

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

2022

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

2023

University of Southern Indiana, Evansville

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