Selected Exhibitions

2002–Present

• Richard Thompson: Patchwork Prairies, Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, MT
• Richard Thompson: Home Grown, Betty Feves Gallery, Blue Mountain College, Pendleton, OR
• Honoring William Campbell Contemporary Art, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
• Visual Magic, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
• Richard Thompson: Paintings From 97114, Oregon Governors's Gallery, Salem, OR
• Richard Thompson: Perfect: Part One, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Ft. Worth, TX (additional one-person exhibitions: 2010, 2005, 2002, 2000, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1992, 1990, 1988, 1986)
• Richard Thompson: Painter’s Desert, Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, NM
• Richard Thompson: Foolish Fly Fisherman, Longview Museum of Fine Art, Longview, TX
• Land & Light/David Hines & Richard Thompson, Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, NM
• Richard Thompson: New Oregon Paintings, ART Elements, Newberg, OR
• Richard Thompson: Fog/Rain/Snow & Night, 12 x 16 Gallery, Portland, OR
• Richard Thompson: My Nature, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, School of Art & Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
• Selections from Portland: 2014, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
• Salon: 2016 Portland Biennial, Disjecta, Portland, OR curated by Michelle Grabner
• 2014 Portland Biennial, Disjecta, Portland, OR curated by Amanda Hunt
• Forty Works for Forty Years, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

1996—2001

• Richard Thompson: A Survey of Paintings and Drawings 1990-99, University Art Gallery, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX
• Confluence, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO and Pritchard Gallery, Moscow, ID
• Richard Thompson: Trout’s House, Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
• Richard Thompson: Pond Vessels/Vessel’s Pond, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX

1991—1996

• Richard Thompson: Paintings and Drawings, Baylor University, Waco, TX
• Richard Thompson: Selected Paintings, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
• Richard Thompson: Paintings 1991-93, Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
• Richard Thompson: Paintings, Robishon Gallery, Denver, CO
• Richard Thompson: Painter’s Picnic, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
• Contemporary Self Portraits From The James Goode Collection, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
• Centennial Prints, Modern Art Museum, Ft Worth, TX

1986—1990

• Richard Thompson: Implied Narratives, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
• Richard Thompson: Beautiful Futures, Harris Gallery, Houston, TX 
• Richard Thompson: New Paintings, Patrick Gallery, Austin, TX
• Richard Thompson: New Paintings, Art Base Gallery, Singapore
• Richard Thompson: Paintings 1985-88, Longview Museum of Art, Longview, TX
• NW x SW: Painted Fictions, Palm Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA (cat.) (traveling exhibition) 
• Forty Texas Printmakers, Modern Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX (cat.)
• The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick Weisman Foundation, traveled U.S. museums, 1989-90
• Texas, Groninger Museum, Groninger, The Netherlands curated by Hans Haks

1981—1985

• Richard Thompson: New Paintings, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 
• Richard Thompson, New Paintings, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
• Richard Thompson: The Pioneer Abstractions, The University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
• Richard Thompson: The Ancestor’s Dream&helip;a Story, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX curated by Jim Edwards
• Richard Thompson: Cabin Fevers and Prairie Crazies, University Art Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Richard Thompson: Paintings, Mackler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
• Richard Thompson: Paintings and Watercolors, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
• Richard Thompson: The Ancestor’s Dream: Scene I, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
• Richard Thompson: The Death Desert Portrait Gallery, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
• Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX , P.S. I curated by Barbara Rose
• Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY curated by Richard Marshall

1975—1980

• Richard Thompson: Death Desert Storm, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Richard Thompson: Studies for a Geometric Cowboy, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX (cat.) curated by Ron Gleason
• New New Mexico, Scottish Arts Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland curated by Jan Edelman and Gerald Laing
• Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, curated by Marcia Tucker

1965–1974

• Impermanent Sculpture, Michigan Arts Council Award, Detroit
• Henri Gallery, Washington DC 
• All Kinds of People, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, curated by Walter Hopps
• Northwest Printmakers, Henry Gallery, University of Washington