Richard L. Dana is a self-taught artist who creates work, both large and small scale, in a range of media, including digital art, mixed media painting, drawing, and installations. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally in 25 one-person and over 120 group exhibitions.

Selected venues in the United States include the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Chrysler Museum (Norfolk VA), the Octagon House Museum (Washington, DC), the Drawing Center (New York, NY), Tribes Gallery (New York, NY), the Print Center (Philadelphia, PA), the Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School (Lakeville, Conn.), the International Monetary Fund (Washington, DC), Maryland Art Place (Baltimore, MD), the Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC), the Wichita Falls Art Museum (Wichita Falls, Texas), Cohn Drennan Contemporary (Dallas, Texas), and Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery (Washington, DC).

Internationally Mr. Dana has exhibited in museums, galleries, and biennials in the following countries: Belgium, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Mr. Dana is a co-founder of and the project director for Take Me To The River, an international artists’ collective which stages exhibitions and community-outreach projects around the world (2002 - present). He also served as project director for the Central Asian Cultural Exchange (1996 - 2001). He was one of the co-founders and co-directors of Art-o-Matic (1999 - 2006) and the founder and executive director of the Washington Area Arts Consortium, whose membership included over 20 regional cultural organizations (1988 – 1994).

Prior to morphing into a full-time artist in the early 1990s, Mr. Dana was a Soviet affairs expert and international economist in Washington, DC. He has a BA in Russian Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.