Richard Alpert (born April 11, 1947) is an American sculptor, abstract filmmaker, and performance artist.

[3] That year an exhibition of his work was held at La Mamelle, Time Expands to Fit the Mold.

[18] On April 4, 1986, at 3:30pm EST Alpert's collection of work up until that point was largely lost in an explosion that killed nine people and injured sixteen.

During the explosion at the building that housed Alpert's studio, he was working on a new sculpture when the fire began raging on the floors below him.

[20]Since then Alpert has showed his work with a series of videos based on images recorded from a high-speed train journey in Spain, AVE (Alta Velocidad España) variations #1-10.

[26] He featured in Light on the Walls of Life: A Tribute Anthology to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ISBN 9781734146011 published by Jambu Press, San Francisco, March 24, 2022.

His website describes this collection as "… a celebration of another San Francisco; one far off the beaten path and excluded from travel brochures and TripAdvisor.