Richard Huntington

Peasant Woman

1991

Richard Huntington is an American painter, printmaker and writer. He is Critic Emeritus at The Buffalo News and has written for High Performance magazine, ARTnews, and Art New England. In 2007, Huntington won the Associated Press First Award for Criticism and earlier, among several residencies, served as visiting critic at the Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington, D.C. from 1982–85. He was the Visual Arts Director at Artpark in Lewiston, New York. He has shown his art nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at the Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, New York (2008–09); the Albright-Knox Collectors Gallery, Buffalo (2008) and the JR Konsthallen, Sweden (2007). In 2010, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery included his work in the international biennial “Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents.” Huntington holds a BFA from Syracuse University and a Master of Art and Humanities from the University at Buffalo. He divides his time between Buffalo and the town of San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico.