Artist Talk: Richard Storms

Join artist Richard Storms and curator Emily McKibbon for an artist talk in the exhibition Kissing Cousins: New Acquisitions in Context. Storms’ paintings of ordinary dogs humorously reimagine modernist portrait traditions, elevating casual snapshots into fine art and revealing how visual culture shapes what, and how, we see.

Richard Storms was born in Wellington, Kansas and moved to Canada in 1978, settling in Toronto in 1981. Richard attended York University and completed his MFA in 1983 with a specialty in Painting. He has exhibited widely in private and public galleries in Canada and internationally including shows at The Power Plant, Mercer Union, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Museum London and the Kamloops Art Gallery. Storms work can be found in notable collections such as The Art Gallery of Peel, TD Bank, RBC, BMO collections, The Art Gallery of Hamilton and The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal,