He received his MFA in 1997 from Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Richards has participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program and the Artists in the Marketplace Program at the Bronx Museum of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Duncan and Miller Gallery in Washington D.C., and has been included in group exhibits in New York City at P.S.1, White Columns, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LFL Gallery, and Sara Meltzer Gallery. This is his second exhibition at Thomas Robertello Gallery