Richard Speer

Richard Speer is an art critic, curator, and author based in Portland, Oregon. His reviews and essays have appeared in ARTnews, Art Papers, Artpulse, Art Ltd., Visual Art Source, Salon, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, and Willamette Week, the Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly newspaper where he was art critic from 2002 to 2015. He is the author of Matt Lamb: The Art of Success (Wiley, 2005), Halley/Mendini (Mary Boone Gallery, 2014), Eric Wert: Still Life (Pomegranate,...See more

Richard Speer is an art critic, curator, and author based in Portland, Oregon. His reviews and essays have appeared in ARTnews, Art Papers, Artpulse, Art Ltd., Visual Art Source, Salon, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, and Willamette Week, the Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly newspaper where he was art critic from 2002 to 2015. He is the author of Matt Lamb: The Art of Success (Wiley, 2005), Halley/Mendini (Mary Boone Gallery, 2014), Eric Wert: Still Life (Pomegranate, 2018), George Dunbar (Callan Contemporary, 2018), and The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020). He has curated major exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art/University of Oregon. More information: www.richardspeer.com. See less