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Richard Cox studied at Fine Art in Newport, Birmingham and London moving to Wales in 1975. He has supported his work as an artist through teaching at various colleges, including the Royal College of Art, Kunstakademeit I Trondheim, Delhi College of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, and working as a visual arts organiser. From 1983-98 he was a Visual Arts Officer at SEWAA and the Arts Council of Wales running the Artists in Residence and international exchange programmes in visual arts. He has undertaken residencies himself at Kunstakademeit i Trondheim 1988, UWIC 1998, Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts 1999 & 2001, Omaha, University of Hijiyama 2002, Hiroshima, Delhi College of Art 2001 and Rajasthan School of Art in 2007.
Since 1993 he has been working in collaboration with artists in India and is currently touring an exhibition of digital photographs, drawings and prints,“Subterranean Architecture. Stepwells in Western India”, to 9 venues in India and the UK 2009-10, most recently seen at the Tamarind Art Gallery New York City in August 2010, the tour continues in 2011-12 to three more venues. Seven digital prints from this exhibition, which documents an unusual aspect of Indian traditional architecture, the Stepwell, feature in this exhibition.
His work is held in 27 public collections in the UK and internationally, including the National Museum and Galleries of Wales, The State Museum at Majdanek, Jawahar Kala Kendra, State of Rajasthan, British Council New Delhi and Newport Museum and Art Gallery, His work has been published in several journals including the Royal Geographic Society and most recently in MADE, the Welsh School of Architecture 2010. He lives in Cardiff and has been the gallery director for Howard Gardens Gallery at Cardiff School of Art and Design since 2004.