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Willy Bo Richardson was born in Santa Fe, NM. He received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000, was a painting tech at Cooper Union in New York and a faculty member at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Richardson’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and featured in numerous group exhibitions including 70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts at Jason McCoy Gallery. The show assembled works by a selection of modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock. He also showed a body of work in the exhibition “Watercolors” at the Phillips Auction headquarters in Chelsea New York. His work and vision was featured on the PBS weekly arts series, ¡COLORES!. Public collections include the Albuquerque Museum. Richardson was awarded a residency at Tamarind Institute and was a SITE Santa Fe SPREAD finalist.