Richard Neal was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Maryland. He earned a Master's degree at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and works at Chalkboard Studio in Barnstable Village on Cape Cod. His work was featured in a three-city tour of Cuba in 2020, and in a 2024 one-person exhibit at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. In 2026, he will be one of fifteen artists commissioned to participate in an outdoor sculpture exhibit at the Duxbury Art Complex, titled Under Construction: America at 250.

 

Richard is the inaugural recipient of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Fellowship. The writer, André van der Wende has observed that “Neal is a master at creating distressed surfaces full of invention and the unexpected, tough and confrontational in their manufacture and effect.”