Biography

 

Intermedia artist Richard Dunlap was born in Seattle in 1939 and received an MFA in painting at the University of Washington in 1968. He taught in the Art Studio Department at UCSB from 1969 to 1977. Dunlap began performing visual/sound works early in the 1970s and has appeared in New York, Boston, Berlin, Stockholm, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He has participated in New Music America festivals in San Francisco and Hartford. In Santa Barbara Richard participated in the PULSE II exhibition at UCSB and in the FLUXUS exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Dunlap has been a jazz performer since the 50’s and has also written music for film, video and dance and has been a member of Santa Barbara’s eclectic stalwarts, Headless Household from the beginning. He has received grants and awards including a Creative Arts Fellowship from the University of California, from the Bloom, W.M.Keck and Esperia Foundations, a Tiffany Award in Painting and for music composition from the Santa Barbara Arts Fund.

 

 

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