Richard Dupont (b. 1968) has a versatile artistic practice, which spans installations, sculptures, drawings, reliefs, animations, and prints. His work is often described as “post-digital” and “post-internet”, and he explores themes related to the Body art, Process art, and Systems art movements of the 1960s and 1970s. However, instead of traditional materials, Dupont utilizes 3D digital bodies and objects. Dupont was born in New York and attended Princeton University, earning a BA from the Departments of Visual Art and Archaeology. Dupont had his body scanned at a General Dynamics facility on The Wright Patterson Air Force Base in 2004, and has been working from these images, translated into both two and three dimensions, since then. An interest in the implications of biometric technologies underpins much of his work. Interested in the way we scrutinize ourselves, Dupont sees his reproductions of the human figure as a way to highlight the idea of “self-surveillance,” and to note the way in which we map our lives through accumulating details.

Dupont’s works have been exhibited at numerous museums including The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Underground Museum, The Museum of Arts and Design, The Queens Museum The Middlebury College Museum of Art, and The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art. He has presented major installations at The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY (2010) and Lever House, New York, NY (2008. Dupont’s works are also included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Hammer Museum, The Yale University Art Gallery, The Perez Art Museum Miami, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), and The New York Public Library Print Collection, among many other public and private collections. In 2014, Dupont was awarded the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Visionary Award.