Richard Chartier

Richard Chartier, minimal sound/installation artist and designer, explores the inter-relationships between sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening.

His visual and sound works have been exhibited in many galleries and artspaces, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Fusebox (DC), The Contemporary Museum (Baltimore), and Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC). He has performed his work at MUTEK (Montreal), Transmediale (Berlin), Lovebytes (Sheffield), Transmissions (Chicago), Leeds International Film Festival (UK), and Rotterdam International Film Festival (NE). Awarded one of twelve Honorable Mentions in the category of Digital Music by the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, 2001 (Austria), Chartier's CD Series was featured in the Whitney Biennial 2002 exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY).

With Taylor Deupree, he founded the recording label LINE. He currently lives in New York and travels and performs worldwide.