Rosalyn Richards

Rosalyn Richards (Lewisburg, PA) is an artist and educator with a background in painting, printmaking and drawing. Her work is mainly shaped by observation of nature, satellite photography, cosmology and scientific imagery from biology and particle physics.

Richards received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence and her MFA from Yale University, New Haven. Her work is represented in the collections of the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA; Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg, PA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Yale University Art Gallery; Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN; as well as Giangdong Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China; China Printmaking Museum, Beijing; among others.

Richards has held artist residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst; Women’s Studio Workshop, Kingston, New York; and Ragdale Residency, Lake Forest, IL. She has been a visiting artist and critic at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Colby College, Waterville, Maine; as well as Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China. She has taught printmaking, drawing, and design at Dartmouth College Hanover; Bucknell University; and the University of Central Florida, Orlando.