Richard Fleischner

Richard Fleischner is a Providence, RI–based environmental artist. Born in New York in 1944, he received a BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and began working in the 1960s.

Richard Fleischner
Born	New York City
Occupation	artist
Years active	1960s–present

Installations

Year	Name	Location	Description
1974	Sod Maze, for the exhibition Monumenta	Château-sur-Mer in Newport, Rhode Island
1977	Floating Square	Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany
1984	La Jolla Project	Revelle College near Theatre District
1985	Untitled	Alewife station, Cambridge, MA	A three-acre large environmental work containing an artificial pond and large granite blocks
1986	Columbia Subway Plaza	Broad and Cecil B. Moore, Philadelphia, PA

Awards

• Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts
• The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1974, 1980, 1990)

External links

• Biography from Knoedler Gallery
• Review in New York Times
• La Jolla Project, 1984
• Untitled 1997
• Space into Place
• Interview with Richard Fleischner on All Ears
• Stuart Collection at UCSD: Richard Fleischner
• Columbia Subway Plaza, 1986