CURRICULUM VITAE
b. 1986, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Education
Florence Academy of Art, Certificate of Completion: Painting Program, 2008-2011
Florence Academy of Art, 4th Year Program, 2011-2012
Gross anatomy workshop, human cadaver dissection with Dr. Gil Hedley, April 2016
Teaching
2024-Present — Program Director, Master of Arts in Studio Art, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy & Jersey City, NJ
2022-24 — Instructor, Aristides Atelier (online)
2022-23 — Associate Professor, Master of Arts in Studio Art, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy & Jersey City, NJ
2016-19 — Director of Anatomy, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2012-14 & 2016-19 — Principal Instructor, Drawing and Painting Program, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2014-16 — Director of Anatomy and Principal Instructor, Florence Academy of Art US, Jersey City, NJ
2010-14 — Assistant to the Anatomy Program, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2010-11 — Assistant teacher, Drawing and Painting Program, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
Awards/Honors
2021 — Margery Soroka Memorial Award, Summer Members’ Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2021 — 2nd place, Library Doors Commission Competition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2021 — 3 Honorable Mentions, Fully From Life Category, 15th International ARC Salon
2013 — Selected for the 7° Concurso de Artes Figurativas 2013, held at the Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain
2011 — Best Figure Painting of the Year, Florence Academy of Art
2011 — 4th year scholarship for a year of post-graduate study, 2011-12, Florence Academy of Art
Exhibitions
2023 — “Contemporary Realists,” LeQuire Gallery, Nashville, TN
2022 — Hartley Invitational, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2021 — 15th International ARC Salon Traveling Exhibition, Sotheby’s, New York City, NY; and Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain
2018 — “On Paper,” Florence Academy of Art US, Jersey City NJ
2018 — Solo Show, at the Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2018 — “12x12: A Portrait Exhibition,” Florence Academy of Art US, Jersey City, NJ
2017 — “Drawing on the Masters,” Florence Academy of Art benefit auction, New York City, NY
2017 — “Self Portrait,” Eleventh Street Arts, New York City, NY
2015 — “Grand Opening and Alumni Exhibition,” Florence Academy of Art US, Jersey City, NJ
2013 — 7° Concurso de Artes Figurativas 2013, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain
2013 — ”New Works, New Directions," Haynes Galleries, Nashville, TN
2013 — “The Art of Drawing," Haynes Galleries, Nashville, TN
2012 — Sixth Alumni Exhibition, Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
Press
“Richard Greathouse: Connecting Across Time”
by Karen Parr-Moody, Nashville Arts Magazine, February 2018
“Self Portraits: Meeting the Artist Eye-to-Eye”
by Milene Fernandez, Epoch Times, April 23, 2017
“Florence Academy of Art Bridges Old and New in the US”
by Milene Fernandez, Epoch Times, August 22, 2016
“The Three Artists of the FAA U.S.A.”
by Allison Malafronte, October 2015, Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center
“MEAM: Promoting Contemporary Representational Art”
by John Seed, Huffington Post, November 26, 2013