Ari Richter is a visu­al artist and Pro­fes­sor at the City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York. His draw­ings, sculp­tures, videos, per­for­mances and lec­tures have been pre­sent­ed in muse­ums, gal­leries and aca­d­e­m­ic spaces through­out the U.S. Richter is the recip­i­ent of fel­low­ships from the Mel­lon Foun­da­tion and the Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion for Jew­ish Cul­ture, as well as a ful­ly pub­lic edu­ca­tion from grade school to grad­u­ate school. The grand­son of Holo­caust sur­vivors and son of ther­a­pists, he lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.