Richard Turner

(American, born 1943)

California-based artist and professor Richard Turner creates installations for public spaces. He has worked as a public artist for over thirty years, on projects ranging from metro stations, public parks, and water treatment facilities, to a justice center, memorials, and a university chapel.

Turner is Professor Emeritus at Chapman University in Southern California, where he taught art, design, contemporary Asian art history, and studio art. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Antioch College in Ohio and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He lived in Saigon, Vietnam from 1959 to 1961. He studied abroad in Taipei, Taiwan, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.