Richard Dupont

Richard DuPont
Portrait of DuPont, c. 2013
Born	Richard Simmons DuPont Jr. (1968-10-05) October 5, 1968 New York City, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University (AB)
Occupation	Artist
Known for	Multimedia Arts
Spouse	Lauren Martinez ​ (m. 1997)​
Children	3
Relatives	Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (4x great-grandfather) Arthur C. Martinez (father-in-law)
Family	Du Pont family
Website	Official website

Richard Simmons DuPont Jr. (born October 5, 1968) is a postdigital American artist whose installations, sculptures, paintings and prints examine the social implications of 21st century digital technology. He is a member of the Du Pont family.

Early life and education

DuPont was born October 5, 1968 in New York City, to Richard Simmons DuPont Sr., a private investor of the Du Pont family, and Emily T. Frick (née Troth). His mother would later marry Henry Clay Frick II and become chair of the Frick Collection. He is a direct descendant of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, founder of the Du Pont Company.

He received an AB degree from the Departments of Visual Art and Art and Archeology at Princeton University in 1991. He has lived in New York City since 1991.

Artistic practice

A pioneer in the field of Digital Art, Dupont began using scanners and 3D printing in 2002 to capture and replicate distorted images of his body. Dupont had his whole body scanned at a General Dynamics facility on The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 2004. Dupont's work examines the degree to which the primacy of the human gesture has been radically altered by the onset of digital technology. He also uses his art to interrogate expressions of power and control, and to examine how anthropometry, the Victorian science of mapping the body, has morphed over the past century into biometrics.

Exhibitions and awards

DuPont at an exhibition in New York City

In 2005, Dupont was invited to present a solo project at Art Basel Miami in the Art Positions sector. In 2008, Dupont was commissioned by The Lever House Art Collection to present a major installation at Lever House. The installation was widely acclaimed. Between 2008 and 2015, Dupont's work was exhibited at The Middlebury College Museum of Art, The Flag Art Foundation, The Queens Museum, The Museum of Arts and Design, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Powerhouse Museum, and The Underground Museum, Los Angeles. In 2014, Dupont was awarded the Museum of Arts and Design Visionary Award.

Collections

Dupont's works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Hammer Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the New York Public Library print collection among others.

Personal life

On July 27, 1997, DuPont married Lauren Martinez (born 1970), the daughter of Arthur C. Martinez, former chair and chief executive of Sears, Roebuck & Co, of Chicago, Illinois. They have two daughters and a son;

• Lila Francis DuPont (born 2003)
• Ava Martinez DuPont (born 2000)

They previously lived in Manhattan before relocating to Greenwich, Connecticut.

External links

• Richard Dupont at Queens Museum
• Richard Dupont at Tracy Williams
• Richard Dupont at Carolina Nitsch
• The Lever House Art Collection | Richard Dupont
• MoMA Collection | Richard Dupont
• MoMA Inside Out
• Middlebury College Museum of Art | Four Works by New York Artist Richard Dupont
• Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art | Richard Dupont Between Stations
• The Lever House Art Collection Video
• The New York Times Art in Review