Richard Saxton is a contemporary artist working in the fields of sculpture, architecture, design, and public art. His work has been exhibited internationally with recent exhibitions at the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at the University of Tennessee; the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Maryland; the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and at Wall House #2 in Groningen, the Netherlands. Saxton¹s permanent projects are located at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah; at the Kohler Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin; and in the City of York, Alabama. His work has been published in the books Engaging Communities, Rural Studio: Community Architecture, the 2004 Whitney Biennial Catalog, Proceed and Be Bold, and in many professional journals including Dialogue, Crit, artUS, API, and Sculpture Magazine.
In 2002, Saxton founded the municipalWORKSHOP, an independent public art laboratory. Through a collective art-making model, the municipalWORKSHOP creates unique public art projects with municipalities, community-based organizations and community members. Saxton is also the Principal Projects Director for the interdisciplinary art firm, M12, and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Colorado in Boulder.