Richard Heipp received his MFA from the University of Washington, and his BFA degree from Cleveland Institute of Art.

Heipp is a painter, who also creates large-scale installations and site-specific public art projects. He has taught painting at the University of Florida for over 20 years.

Heipp has recently been commissioned to complete his seventeenth site specific Art in Public Places project. His public artwork has involve painting, photography, various lighting elements and relief sculpture. His recent projects incorporate computer aided design, production and fabrication. His public projects have ranged from a set of ten foot by thirty foot paintings for the State of Florida's Fire College, a fifty foot long permanent wall installation for the Schmidt Center for the Arts and Humanities of Florida Atlantic University, to a nine unit multi-media installation incorporating two separate sites commissioned for the State Veterans Nursing Home in Daytona Beach, Florida. Professor Heipp recently completed a large scale, fifteen panel exterior wall relief, installation project commissioned by the city of Tampa for the for entry ramp to the Tampa Museum of Art.

Richard Heipp also remains active as an exhibiting artist. He has had more than twenty-five solo exhibitions including the exhibition titled The Electric Image, The Work of Richard Heipp at the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, in Jacksonville Florida. Other solo exhibitions have included such venues as: the Lowe Gallery, Atlanta GA, the Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, The Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville University the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savanna, Georgia, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, Washington, and the Center for Contemporary Art, at the University of Kentucky.

His work has also been featured in almost one hundred group exhibitions in such institutions as the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and the Henry Art Gallery. His art works are included in many public and private collections nationally including the Polk Museum of Art, the Harn Museum of Art, and The Seattle Art Museum. His artwork has also been featured in three New American Painting publications.

His many grants and awards have included a Southern Arts Federation, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, and four State of Florida, Individual Artists Fellowships. He has received more then fifteen University sponsored research awards in addition to being awarded a College of Fine Arts Research Foundation Professorship. His teaching has also been recognized through a TIP award and a Teacher of the Year Award for the College of Fine Arts.

Website:
http://www.richardheipp.com