Ari Richter was born in Tampa, FL in 1983. He received a 100% debt-free public education, including a BFA from Florida State University and a MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His sculptures, drawings, videos and performances have been presented at BHQFU (New York, NY), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), The Spartanburg Art Museum (Spartanburg, SC), The Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC), CentralTrak (Dallas, TX), Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (Athens, GA), Nexus Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) Celebrate Brooklyn! (Brooklyn, NY) and MOCAtv (Los Angeles, CA). He has attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the University of Texas at Dallas, and has presented at the academic conference, The Way of All Flesh, in collaboration with the CUNY Graduate Center and The Morbid Anatomy Museum.
Ari Richter is an Associate Professor of Art at LaGuardia Community College in The City University of New York. He lives and works in Queens, NY.