Richard Haas View Profile
American muralist Richard Haas (b. 1936, Spring Green, WI) reintroduced architectural illusionism into late twentieth-century public art, using trompe-l’oeil mural painting to rethink urban space and perception. At a time when realism in painting was unfashionable, Haas helped establish mural painting as a serious, intellectually engaged form of public art, rather than decorative embellishment. Haas studied both architecture and painting and his site-specific, historically engaged works helped viewers understand their own architectural histories.
The artist has presented solo exhibitions at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (2022); Melvin Art Gallery, Florida Southern College, Lakeland (2016); Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2015); New-York Historical Society, New York City (2011); and New York Public Library, New York City (2006). Notable group exhibitions include Panoramas: The Big Picture, New-York Historical Society (2019); Art in the Open: 50 Years of Public Art in New York, Museum of the City of New York (2018); The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, and Princeton University Art Museum, NJ (2014); and Landscape of the Mind, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (2012). He has created major murals in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Paris. His work is in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Brooklyn Museum; New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Haas lives and works in New York City.
(as of 2025)
