Richard Van Buren (born Syracuse, New York, 5 August 1937) is an American sculptor and painter.
He was quite active in the New York art world in the 1960s and 1970s, and still continues his art-making practices, though he now lives in Maine.
[2] While still a student, he began exhibiting in galleries who showed works by his contemporaries, Franz Kline, H.C. Westermann, Ron Nagle, Ed Moses, and Robert Morris.
His colleagues were famous sculptors such as Eva Hesse, Lynda Benglis, and Richard Serra.
He often makes use of dry pigment, costume jewelry, fiberglass, wallpaper paste, and glitter simultaneously.