Richard Kraft grew up in London, England. He moved to the United States to study in New York City where he received a BFA in photography from Parsons School of Design. He continued his studies at the University of Michigan where he earned an MFA, also in photography. Kraft’s multi-disciplinary approach (which incorporates photography, video, collage, drawing and performance) seeks to construct environments and interrupt the world around us so that incongruities, paradoxes, and multiplicity of meaning might yield a new orientation to the familiar. Exhibitions include the Charlie James Gallery, LA Louver, Rosamund Felsen, and Greg Kucera, as well as museum, university and non-profit art spaces, including the Portland Art Museum, the Laguna Art Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Ruffin Gallery at the University of Virginia, Occidental College, and Printed Matter, among others. Kraft has produced a number of works for Siglio Press, including an artist's book, "Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera" and several artist’s multiples. He recently co-edited the first complete volume of John Cage's "Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)." Publications include BOMB, Bookforum, Carousel among other journals, and in his work was recently featured in "The New Collage Book," a comprehensive survey published by Gestalten. Kraft has frequently made work for public spaces, with pieces appearing on the sides of buses and in library aisles, as well as for performances which have taken place in Oxford Circus and Speaker’s Corner in London, along the Las Vegas Strip, at the Wendover Air Force Base, outside “Little Sparta” in rural Scotland, and downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2015, The City of West Hollywood (as part of the its thirtieth anniversary celebrations) commissioned Kraft to produce "One Hundred Walkers, West Hollywood" which received a Year in Review Award from Americans for the Arts/Public Art Network.