Richard Ray Whitman (born 1949) is a Yuchi-Muscogee multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, and actor.

Whitman is known for his black-and-white photography portraying contemporary Native realities, especially his "Street Chiefs Series" from the 1970s and 1980s.

"Street Chiefs" features images of homeless Native men, primarily in downtown Oklahoma City.

The boredom, pain, frustration, poverty of the reality-counterbalance of our lives is harsh, unattractive, and unmarketable.

[4] From the 1980s onward, Whitman has incorporated text and computer graphics in his photography to create collage or mixed media.