Richard Aldrich (b. 1975, Hampton, Virginia) lives and works in New York. Aldrich has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including Fondazione Giuliani, Rome (2022); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2016); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (2011); and the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2011). Aldrich has been included in group exhibitions at notable institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea. Aldrich’s work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., and the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan.