Lynn Richardson facts for kids
Lynn Richardson (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian artist and sculptor based in Winnipeg.
Career
In 1998 Richardson received an Honours BFA from the University of Manitoba. In 2005 she completed an MFA in Sculpture at the University of Texas at Austin and also received the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant in New York.
Richardson has presented her sculpture in numerous exhibitions throughout Canada, the United States and Taiwan. Her large-scale installation Red State was featured in the Supernovas group show at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and at the Michael Gibson Gallery in London, Ontario. Her solo exhibitions include a presentation of Inter-glacial Free Trade Agency.ca at Regina's Dunlop Art Gallery in 2007 and a series of new works at Harcourt House in Edmonton in 2008.
Richardson has received art awards including grants from the Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. She has taught sculpture at the University of Manitoba School of Art and courses at the University of Texas. In 2007, she was artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska.
