Richard Cox (9) (1946–)

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Richard Cox studied Fine Art for 8 years in Southend, Newport, Birmingham and London. He moved to live in Wales UK in 1975. He has a background in teaching in various Art Schools in UK and abroad, and as a Visual Arts Officer with S E Wales Arts and The Arts Council of Wales, running the Artists in Residence Programme in Wales between 1984-98 where he set up nearly 200 residencies in the UK and internationally.

From 2004 - 2013 he was a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff School of Art & Design where he was director of Howard Gardens Gallery. During this period he organised over 60 solo and group exhibitions presenting the work of 254 different practitioners in fine art, craft, photography and architecture disciplines.

Since 2000 he has had a series of solo exhibitions in Japan, USA, India, Brussels and the UK. His work has also dealt with architectural influences from Japan (The Higashi Series), where he was Artist in Residence in the Fine Art Dept. at Hijiyama University in 2003. He has been a visiting lecturer to various colleges since the 1970s including at The Royal College of Art, UCLA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Kunstakademiet I Trondheim, Delhi College of Art, etc.