Richard Hunt's distinguished career spanned seven decades, from the 1950s to the 2020s, with notable accomplishments, including:
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More than 190 solo exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide, from 1958 to now.
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More than 350 group exhibitions worldwide.
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Works represented in more than 130 museum collections worldwide.
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Received 45 awards, 18 honorary degrees, and 22 professorships and artist in residencies.
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Served on more than 30 Boards, Councils, Committees, and Panels for major arts organizations during his lifetime.
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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

