Biography

Richard Pettibone is an influential American artist. As a prominent figure in Pop and post-Pop Art, Pettibone’s work was a predecessor of 1980s Appropriation Art and offered an inventive, often humorous critique of 20th-century art. He notably creates miniature replicas of works by other famous figures, such as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Roy Lichtenstein — deliberately choosing artists whose works focuses on replication and seriality, adding an additional layer of irony to Pettibone’s reproductions. Born in 1938 in Los Angeles, CA, he went on to receive his MFA from the Otis Art Institute in 1962. Significant exhibitions of the artist’s work include his massive, four-decade retrospective of over 200 works at the Laguna Art Museum in California during 2005–2006, and his inclusion in the 2007 exhibition “What Is Painting?” at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Pettibone’s work has also been shown at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, and the Laguna Art Museum, among many others. He lives and works in New York, NY.