David Richardson (b. 1965, Waterford, MI) is an artist and author whose work reflects on myth, combat, and the pressure of the past against the vacuum of the future. Taught to draw and paint by his mother, an artist and art teacher, he spent twenty-two years as a Marine Corps combat arms officer in Japan, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa, and a stretch teaching the origins of western warfare at The George Washington University while friends deployed. That interval — Japanese stone markers at the base of Fuji, a close reading of the Iliad, neon crosses over Seoul, scarred walls in Ramadi — mixed in his head and became the work.

His paintings treat myth as a site of memory and encounter. Oil, acrylic, metal, charcoal, and buckshot on tin or plywood sit inside one vocabulary. Richardson studied biology and art at Harding College, and currently lives and works in Virginia. He is the author of War Story (Permuted Press, 2019) and the forthcoming Texas Flood: 4 July 2025 (2026).

Recent exhibitions include Art Expo NYC, Dickinson Gallery, Booth S101, New York, NY, 2026; Utopia, Dickinson Gallery, New York, NY, 2025–26; Art on Paper, Dickinson Gallery booth, New York, NY, 2024; Cerebral, Dickinson Gallery, New York, NY, 2024; Myth and Enigma: Something along the line, AMRM Gallery, New York, NY, 2023; Stand for the Troops benefit, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Club, New York, NY, 2019; U.S. Marine and Painter, Army and Navy Club, Washington, DC, 2017 (solo); High Art | Low Art, Book Hill pop-up, Georgetown, Washington, DC, 2016; 20 Years, 20 Artists, The Ralls Collection, Georgetown, Washington, DC, 2011; The Trojan War Years: 2000–2010, The Ralls Collection, Georgetown, Washington, DC, 2010–11 (solo); The Soul of Seoul, Zenith Gallery at Chevy Chase Pavilion, Washington, DC, 2009–10 (solo).