in defiance of being here

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Richard T. Walker (British, born 1977 in Shrewsbury, UK) is based in San Francisco, CA. He received his BA in Fine Art from Bath Spa University College in 1999 and his MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London, in 2005. Upcoming solo exhibitions include the ASU Art Museum, Tempe (2014), and di Rosa, Napa (2015). Past exhibitions include James Cohan Gallery, New York; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and K21, Düsseldorf.
Walker was a recipient of a fellowship at Kala Art Institute in 2007 and received an Artadia Award in 2009. He was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts from 2007–2009 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. The artist is currently a senior lecturer at California College of the Arts and has been a visiting lecturer at the University of California, San Diego; San Diego State University; Mills College; Stanford University; and Aarhus Kunstakademi, Denmark. Selected collections include Kadist Art Foundation (Paris and San Francisco) and K21, Düsseldorf.