Teri Gandy-Richardson:
denim artist based in Brooklyn, NY

Born in Austin Minnesota, Teri Gandy-Richardson is a humanist, abstract artist, African-American woman, cancer survivor and yoga teacher based in Brooklyn, NY.

Selected recent and local group art exhibitions were at: MoCADA, Brooklyn, New York; the Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York; The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York and the Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, New York. Internationally, Teri was invited to participate in DENIM— Stylish, Practical, Timeless Blue Fabric with A History, held at the Spielzeug Welten Museum in Basel Switzerland. Most recent art residencies were at Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY and the Work in Progress (WIP) Residency at the Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, 2025. Previous residencies include Summer Residency at the  School of Visual Arts; DVCAI Residencies twice in Puerto Rico, and once in the Bahamas and Barbados; as well as the Saltonstall Summer Residency at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY. Teri has received three Puffin Foundation Grants, and was originally an Architecture major at The Cooper Union, before changing majors to earn her BFA from Cooper Union, in Painting.

art IG: @teri.artwork