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BIOGRAPHY
Associate Professor/Department Chair
Boise State University
EDUCATION
2000 University of Massachusetts, Amherst/Arts Extension Service
1986 M.F.A. Washington State University
1982 University of Oregon
1978 M.A.Ed. Boise State University
1975 B.F.A. Northern Michigan University
1971 Oakland Community College
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho
Special Events Center, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
2008 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University, Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho
The Deal, JCrist Gallery, Visual Arts Collective and other venues in Boise
2007 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho
2006 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho
2005 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise,Idaho
2004 Boise State University Faculty Exhibition, Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho,Moscow, Boise, Idaho
“National Small Painting Exhibition”, The Wichita Center for the Arts
Wichita, Kansas. Juror: Neil Welliver, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Fine
Arts, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise,
Idaho
2003
Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise,Idaho
2002 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho
2001 “Sustained Chord: Recent work by Richard A. Young and Cheryl K. Shurtleff”, Herrett Museum of Arts and Science, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho “Left and Found” Boise City Arts Commission Temporary Public Art Project.
9.11 -10.19?, ”Visual Considerations of an Unspeakable Moment”, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho.
Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise,Idaho.
2000 “Richard Young, Francis Fox, Cheryl Shurtleff, Joan Van Sledright” Nightengale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, LaGrande,Oregon
Finalist: Boise Visual Chronicle, Boise City Arts Commission Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho
1999 16th Gallery “76 National Juried Art Exhibit. Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, Washington: Juror: John Agars, Robert Dohrman
1999 “ Surrealism” National Open Juried Exhibition. Long Beach Arts
Gallery, Long Beach California, Juror: Scott Candy, Curator of Art, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
1999 “National Miniature Exhibition” Blue Ridge Arts Council Gallery, Front Royal, Virginia
Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho
1998 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho
1997 Boise Art Museum Permanent Collection. (work purchased by private patron and donated to the museum)
Richard A. Young/Jim Budee, Boise State University Visual ArtsCenter, Boise, Idaho
“True Art”, Northwest Biennial Exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum,
Tacoma, Washington. Juror: Donald Roller Wilson
Two Studios: One Bed, Invitational Group Exhibition, Cheney Cowles Museum. Spokane, Washington
1996 144” Square, International Small Painting Exhibition. Erector Square Gallery, New Haven Connecticut. Juror: Robert Reed, Professor of Painting, Yale University
Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho
1995 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise,Idaho
1994 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise,
1993 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, Boise, Idaho
1992 “Studio Work: Richard A. Young/Russell Hepworth”, Herrett Museum of Art, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho
1991 Spirit of the West, Invitational Exhibition of Northwest Artists, West One Bank, Boise, Idaho (Exhibit toured the Northwest States
Fellowship Award Winners Group Show, Sun Valley Center Gallery,Sun Valley, Idaho
1990 “Pairables” Recent Work by Richard A. Young, Spokane FallsCommunity College Gallery, Spokane, Washington
1989 7th Annual Group Exhibition, Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho
“Field and Stream” 16 Pacific Northwest Artists”, Boise Art Museum,Boise, Idaho; Pritchard Gallery, Moscow, Idaho
6th Annual Group Exhibition, Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho
One Person Exhibition, Art Department Gallery, Northwest Nazarene College, Nampa, Idaho
1988 American Drawing Biennial, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Juror: Frank Gettings,Curator of Prints and Drawing, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington, D. C.
“Past Experience/Future Visions”, Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls,
Montana Juror: Dennis O’Leary, Director, Boise Art Museum
5th Annual Group Exhibition, Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho
Works On/With Paper Invitational, Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington
1987 Peaceful Settlements II, Student Union Building, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
Fifth Idaho Biennial Exhibition, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho
Juror: Michael Komanecky, Director, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Washington
1987 4th Annual Group Exhibition, Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho
Western Visions, Hemingway Studies Invitational Art Exhibition,Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
1986 Northwest Juried Art 86, Cheney Cowles Museum of Art, Spokane
Washington Juror: Josine Ianco Starrels, Director, Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Helen Hamblen Award
Recent Work [One Man Exhibition], Corner Gallery, Twin Falls, Idaho
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2007 Nominated for Contemporary Northwest Art Award, Portland Art Museum
2004 Who’s Who in American Teachers
2000 Quick Funds/Quick Arts Grant, Idaho Commission on the Arts
1999 Award from Idaho Commission on the Arts for Support of Arts in Idaho
1987 Individual Artists Fellowship, Idaho Commission on the Arts
1985-86 Graduate Assistantship, Washington State University
1984-85 Graduate Assistantship, Washington State University
1976-77 Graduate Assistantship, Boise State University
PUBLISHED WORKS
2009 Front and back cover art, Idaho Review, Literary Journal of Boise State University
1997 High Ground/Limited Edition Artist’s Book Two Studios: One Bed” essay by
Alberta Mayo, Independent Curator
1996 Boise State University Alumni Magazine/Focus
1974-75 Ford Times Magazine
Private and Corporate Collections
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Herrett Center for Art and History, Twin Falls, Idaho
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan
U.S. West Telephone Company, Denver, Colorado
Kathleen Bettis, Boise, Idaho
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Coughlin, Boise, Idaho
Robin Dare, Spokane, Washington
Brent Smith, Boise, Idaho
Frank and Hannah Finn, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
James Harris, Boise, Idaho
Steven and Cheryl Maze, Corvallis, Oregon
Larry and Laura Ragan, Boise, Idaho
Jeanette Ross, Boise, Idaho
Julie Scott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Robert Vasquez, Boise, Idaho
Joe Wheat, Boise, Idaho
Dreik and Michael Zirinsky, Boise, Idaho
Activities as Gallery Director Fall 1994 – Spring 2003