Photography by Richard E. Loftis
Accomplishments
Selected Exhibitions
Posthumous Shows
2019 The Photography of Richard Loftis, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri
2018 Primary Colors Gallery, Independence, Missouri
One Person
2007 Ins and Outs, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2004 Hoods Doors and Fenders, Image Point Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2002 Fifty Years of Photography, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri
2000 Richard E. Loftis, An Exhibition of Photographs
Edward A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
Chrome on the Range, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
1999 Southwest Landscape, Community Christian Church, Kansas City, Missouri
1998 Vietnam Then and Now, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri
1995 J.D. Reece Corporate Gallery, Overland Park, Kansas
1994 First Flight Through Present Fantasy, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1993 Kellas Gallery, Lawrence Kansas
1992 Gallery V, Kansas City, Missouri
1991 University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri
1990 Avila College, Kansas City, Missouri
Society of Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
1989 Arkansas River Valley Arts Center, Russellville, Arkansas
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
1988 Baker Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas
Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri
1987 Cottey College, Nevada, Missouri
1985-86 Baker Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas
1982-84 Baker Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
Arkansas River Valley Arts Center, Russellville, Arkansas
Viewpoint Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
1978-81 Bedyk Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Invitational Exhibitions
2000 The Ride, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
1999 Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
1995 From New York to L.A. --A Collector's Market
Society of Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
1994 Top 50 Artists in Missouri 1994, Stauffacher Center for the Arts, State Fair Community College,
Sedalia, Missouri
1993-95 Summer Invitational, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1989 The Westonian Inheritance, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
Other Places, Other Faces, Spiva Arts Center, Joplin, Missouri
1988 Color, Josephus Daniels Gallery, Carmel, California
1987-90 Josephus Daniels Gallery, Carmel, California
1987 Portrait and Figure, Josephus Daniels Gallery, Carmel, California
Portrait of the Artist, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia, Kansas
Figure and Photography, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
1986 Going to Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
1985 New Additions to the Permanent Collection, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1984 The Nude, Classic Beauty, Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Twentieth Century Nudes, Eclipse Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
Going to Kansas City, Sioux City Arts Center, Sioux City, Iowa
1983 Josephus Daniels Gallery, Carmel, California
1981-83 Male-Female, Batman Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1981-82 Bedyk Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Competitions
1999-2000 Photospiva, Spiva Arts Center, Joplin, Missouri
1995 Dualities, Annual Juried Members Show, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
1987, 1989-95 Five State Photography Competition, Hays, Kansas
1983-93 Photospiva, Spiva Arts Center, Joplin, Missouri
1987-88 Municipal Arts Commission Photography Competition, Kansas City, Missouri
1985-87 Current Works, Society for Contemporary photography, Kansas City, Missouri
1985 Urban Landscape, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
1982 Mid-America Picture Show, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Publications
1989 New Letters, Literary Awards Special Issue, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri
1988 Kansas City Magazine, Portfolio Section, Kansas City, Missouri
1986 Editor's Choice II, Iowa City, Iowa
1985 Chouteau Review, 10th Anniversary Issue, Kansas City, Missouri
1982-83 Chouteau Review, Kansas City, Missouri
Workshops/Lectures/Instructional
1996 Artist in Residence, Missouri State Fair, Sedalia, Missouri
1995 Juror, Missouri State Fine Art Photography
1993-97 Instructor, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
1992-2000 Private Photographic Instruction
1987-91 Instructor, Artist in Residence, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
1988 Juror, Portfolio Class, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri
1985-88 Northeast KC Photography Club Annual Exhibition
1983-86 Board Member, Society for Contemporary Photography (Founding Board), Kansas City, Missouri
1995-96 "
1986 Juror, Municipal Arts Commission Photography Competition, Kansas City, Missouri
1984-86 Summer Workshop Instructor, Baker Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1982-86 Lecturer, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
1975-77 Instructor, Longview Community College Photographic Dept., Lee's Summit, Missouri
Permanent Collections
Agricultural Hall of Fame, Bonner Springs, Kansas
American Century Investments, Kansas City, Missouri
AT&T Town Pavilion, Kansas City, Missouri
Buhl Foundation, New York City, New York
Business Men's Assurance Company of America, Kansas City, Missouri
Daum Museum, State Fair Community College, Sedalia, Missouri
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
McCloud Law Firm, Kansas City, Missouri
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Shook Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, Missouri
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Kansas City, Missouri
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas