Richard Barnes

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Richard Barnes divides his time between commissioned work and personal projects. He has had numerous exhibitions in this country and abroad including solo shows at the Carnegie Museum of Art, The Carpenter Center at Harvard University and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, among others. He was the recipient of the Rome Prize in 2005/06 and his photographs from Rome formed the basis for his book and installation titled Animal Logic. His body of work on the Unabomber cabin was featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and was shown recently in the exhibition, Crime Unseen at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. His photographs are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco MOMA and the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, among others. He works on assignment for such publications as the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic and the New Yorker.