Richard Chartier
Richard Chartier (b.1971), sound and installation artist, is considered one of the key figures in the current of reductionist electronic sound art which has been termed both “microsound” and Neo-Modernist. Chartier’s minimalist digital work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and the act of listening itself. An acclaimed painter and graphic designer, Chartier designed sleeves for most of the first eleven Intransitive Recordings releases. He went on to curate minimalist electronic music for the 12K/Line label.
Chartier’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries around the world, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Sounding Spaces at NTT/ICC (Japan), I Moderni / The Modernsat Castello di Rivoli (Italy), Resynthesis at The Art Institute of Chicago and with the traveling sound exhibit Invisible Cities. His solo and collaborative installations have been shown at the Art Gallery of University of Maryland, Media Lab Enschede, Montalvo Arts Center, G Fine Art, Die Schachtel, The Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, and Diapason, among many others.
