Biography
Richard Halliday was born in Vancouver,B.C in 1939 and received his early training at the Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr College) with Jack Shadbolt, Roy Kiyooka, Ron Thom and Peter Aspell.He graduated in 1963 with honours in Painting and Drawing. Richard attended many of the early Emma Lake Workshops including those guided by Herman Cherry, Clement Greenberg, John Cage, Laurence Alloway, and Karen Wilkin. After attending the Instituto San Miguel Allende, Mexico in the winter of 1964, he began a teaching career in Brandon Manitoba as Director of the Brandon Allied Art Center, from Sept 1964 to May 1966. In the spring of 1966 he received an Emily Carr Foundation Scholarship to continue studies in Art History and Film at Sir George Williams University (Concordia) in Montreal. He received his Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in 1976, and pursued graduate studies for two years at Concordia University.
In 1968 he was appointed Director of the Montreal Museum School of Art and Design, and spent ten years as director of the private art college administered by the Museum. In August 1978 he was appointed to the full time teaching faculty of the Alberta College of Art and Design of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary. In Aug 1982 after four years as assistant head of the college he was appointed department head of the Art College in August of 1982. In December 1982 he made an important decisive contribution to the future identity of the Alberta College of Art that made an immediate impact on the protracted struggle to find independence for the art college as a self governed institution. Beginning in Sept 1984 he concentrated on teaching drawing and painting in the newly independent Alberta College of Art and Design. After a teaching career spanning thirty-six years Richard retired from the Alberta College of Art and Design in December of 2002. He was honoured with the designation : Lecturer Emeritus, by the College Faculty at the Graduate Convocation of May 2003.
Richard is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and is a founding member of the Artists Circle, Calgary Contemporary Arts Society. He is represented in numerous collections including : Canada Council Art Bank, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Brandon University, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Calgary Allied Art Foundation, Nickle Arts Museum, Glenbow Museum, MacKenzie Art Gallery, and the Canadiana Collection, National Capital Commission, Ottawa. 
RICHARD HALLIDAY 
