Born in Oklahoma and raised in Germany, Richard Stuart Perkins is a photographer, film maker and writer who is creating works that question public and private personas. Perkins’ creative process uses interviews, fragmentation, the history of portraiture, cinema, and art history, to ask questions about what it means to be an individual in societies that seek to define our lives externally. Perkins produces works that imply immediacy, and which invite meditation on presence, disappearance, and foundation. Often photographing himself in reductive tropes of black culture, using racially charged props and tableaux, Perkins images attempt to reason with racism, appropriation and assimilation, inviting viewers to examine their own assumptions.

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts: Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts, New York City, NY

Bachelor of Fine Arts: Columba College, Columbia University, New York City, NY

EXHIBITIONS

2023 - Golden Leaf, Taaffe Gallery, Brooklyn NY, group exhibition

2020 - If Ancestors Anchor, solo exhibit, Upfor Gallery, Portland Oregon

2019 - What We See When We Look, solo exhibition, Leslie – Lohman Gallery Annex, New York City, NY

2018 - Multichromatic, Group Show Google New York Headquarters, New York City, NY

2004 - Bathhouse, (super 16 mm short film) included in the inaugural group show NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex In America, Museum of Sex, New York
 

PUBLICATIONS

GAYLETTER #20

SPUNK 2020

SPUNK  2019

MÄNNER MAGAZIN July 2016

UBIKWIST No 2 Spring/Summer 2015

UBIKWIST No.1 Fall/Winter 2016

ARTICLES 

“An Intimate Conversation About Sex and Life after Prostate Cancer”, The Caftan Chronicles, June 28, 2024, by Tim Murphy

https://open.substack.com/pub/thecaftanchronicles/p/an-intimate-conversation-about-sex?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"Richard Stuart Perkins Discusses Race, Photography and Throwing Men Over His Shoulder", The Huffington Post,  Feb 02, 2016, by Phillip M Miner

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-stuart-perkins_b_4869951

Квир, Сюжет с мужчиной, (Queer, The Plot With a Man),  January 2014, by Andre Lukin

https://kvir.info/articles/syuzhet-s-muzhchinoy.html