Rick Lieder
Residence | Studio:
23354 Churches St.
Southfield MI 48033
Phone: 248.900.1955
Email: artimony@gmail.com
Painter & photographer.
My art and design has been used for award-winning books ranging from mysteries and science fiction, to books based on the X-Files TV series, to Newbery Award-winning books for children.
My picture books are a collaboration with award-winning novelist and poet Helen Frost, published by Candlewick Press.
2012: STEP GENTLY OUT
2015: SWEEP UP THE SUN
2016: AMONG A
THOUSAND FIREFLIES
2017: WAKE UP!
2019: WAIT & SEE!
2024: THE MIGHTY POLLINATORS
My filmmaking was featured in the 2016 PBS NOVA program “CREATURES OF LIGHT”, produced by National Geographic Television.
Clients include:
National Geographic Television, Orion Magazine, Natural History Magazine, Daimler Chrysler, Bloomsbury Books, Random House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, HarperCollins, Penguin Books, Simon & Shuster, Focal Press.
"I went to visit your show at the gallery in the Detroit Zoo. I stayed in the gallery a long time. Your pictures are beautiful. I circled around to look at them again and again. And sat in the quiet and looked some more."
– Joanne Hyso
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Solo Exhibitions
Taubman Health Center – University of Michigan; 2019
Authors in Chelsea; Chelsea MI; Feb-Mar 2018
Wild Light; National Center for Nature Photography, Ohio 2017
MicroWilderness – Charlevoix, MI, Spring 2008
Portraits of a MicroWilderness – Exhibit Gallery, Detroit Zoo; 2006
Art For A Transforming World – Oasis Gallery, Marquette, MI; 1999
Shaking The Earth To Its Senses – Start Gallery, Birmingham, MI; 1997
Selected Exhibitions
2026 • Gallery at Ideation Orange, Hazel Park, MI.
Personal Heat – Annex Gallery, Detroit, MI.
Sweep Up the Sun – Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN
Targets & Trajectories – Cass Cafe, Detroit, MI.
Nature Reperceived – Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI.
Actual Size Biennial – Contempoary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI.
Children’s Book Society Exhibition – Maniscalco Gallery, Grosse Pointe, MI.
Invitational – Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
12 + 12 – Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI.
Actual Size – Detroit Contempoary, Detroit, MI.
Invitational – Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
Ritual – Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
Museum of New Art – Exhibit and Auction, Detroit, MI.
Evolution – Gallery 212, Ann Arbor, MI.
Collaborative work – CPop Gallery, Detroit, MI.
Sanity Chalenged – Gallery 212, Ann Arbor, MI.
pict@millenium – Univ. of Toledo, Ohio / CMU, MI.
Celebrate Michigan Artists 1999 – Paint Creek Center, Rochester, MI.
Embellished Truths – Clement Gallery, University of Toledo, Ohio.
Art of the Iris – Sisson Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI.
Documenta USA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Pontiac, MI.
Returning The Gaze – Clement Gallery, Toledo, Ohio.
Selected Work – Hankins Gallery, Lansing, MI.
Trobar Retrospective – Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI.
The Digital Image – Lee Hall Gallery, N. Michigan University, Marquette, MI.
Motor City Revue – Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI.
Surrealism in Detroit – Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
Commissions
State of Michigan/Art in Public Places – Eleven photographs commissioned for Department of Social Services building; 1990.
Awards
First Place Purchase Award – 18th Annual Helen DeRoy Art Competition; 1999.
29th Michigan Photography Exhibition – Four Awards, Detroit, MI; 1998.
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