Richard Chartier Email & Phone Number

Richard Chartier, Los Angeles based artist and composer, is considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier’s critically acclaimed sound works have been published since 1998 on a variety of labels internationally. He has collaborated with composer William Basinski, sound artists ELEH, France Jobin, Robert Curgenven, Taylor Deupree, AGF, CoH, Yann Novak, and Asmus Tietchens. In installation form, he has created works with multimedia artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, visual artist Linn Meyers, and projected light artist Anthony McCall. Under his guise Pinkcourtesyphone, he has collaborated with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kid Congo Powers, harpist Gwyneth Wentink, AGF, and thereminist Evelina Domnitch. Chartier’s sound works/installations have been presented in museums and galleries internationally including the Whitney Biennial and the influential sound art exhibit Sounding Spaces at NTT/ICC in Tokyo. His performances have occurred live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America. Since 2000, Chartier has curated the influential recording label LINE, publishing over 130 editions documenting compositional and installation work of international artists who explore the aesthetics of minimalism.+Over the past two decades Chartier has cultivated notoriety a graphic designer, known for his clean, minimal, formalist aesthetic. His extensive experience in creating logos, annual reports, posters, invitations, books, flyers, packaging, branding style guides, and more has led him to work with a multitude of non-profit, art, culture, environmental, and educational institutions as well as for corporations and individuals.Specialties: sound art, installation, curatorial, graphic design, art direction

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