Dawn Richard

Dawn Richard is a musician, multimedia artist, animator, dancer, director, model, and entrepreneur. As a founding member of Danity Kane, Richard has explored the ins and outs of commercial pop music. As a solo artist, she opted to self-release her music; over the span of six critically acclaimed full-length albums, she treats Louisiana Creole culture, New Orleans bounce, and Southern Swag as elemental, allowing her to weave in and out of house, footwork, R&B, and more. As she proudly proclaimed on her album Second Line: “I am the genre.” Her most recent album is a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist and producer Spencer Zahn called Pigments, which is an orchestral fusion of neoclassical, ambient, and jazz and received critical acclaim since its October 2022 release. In addition to her prolific musical output, Richard is active in a number of other creative fields. She works in creative direction & creative partnerships with Adult Swim; she is passionate about emerging technologies, as well as the intersection of tech and art. This past October, she was the Artist in Residence for a full week at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, marking the first time in the program’s history that they’ve had a visiting artist for a full week of programming.