Richard Dunn: Thinking Pictures

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Richard Dunn was born in Sydney Australia and studied architecture at the University of New South Wales sculpture at the National Art School Sydney and painting at the Royal College of Art London M.Art(RCA). He lived for ten years in London and Paris and in New York 1984-1985 P.S.1 International Studio Program Fellow PS1 MOMA New York. He was Director of Sydney College of the Arts 1988-2001 and Professor of Contemporary Visual Art and University Artist-in-Residence the University of Sydney until the end of 2010. Dunn lived for extended periods in Düsseldorf and Edinburgh. He has been a Visiting Professor National Academy of Fine Art Oslo 2000; Artist-in-Residence Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Germany 2000; Guest-professor Kunstakademie Düsseldorf winter semester 2003/4; Artist-in-Residence Sanskriti Kendra New Delhi India 2010; External Examiner for Art Space and Nature postgraduate program The Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture University of Edinburgh 2009-14. He is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Visual Art at the University of Sydney.