Richard Renfro    IALD, IES

Mr. Renfro has been a lighting designer since 1979 when he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree with honors from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He was a principal with Fisher Marantz Renfro Stone from 1984 until he established Renfro Design Group, Inc. in 1998.

His experience includes lighting design for the most impressive library, museum, cultural, and historic renovation projects in the world, including the Grand Central Terminal restoration, Saint Thomas Church, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the architectural and exhibit lighting for the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, and the recently completed Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building in Kansas City.

Every project at Renfro Design Group is infused with Richard‘s artistic and technical vision. Most recently, Richard has overseen the lighting design of The Frick Collection’s renovation of the Fragonard Room in New York, NY; the Swarthmore College Unified Science Center in Swarthmore, PA; the renovation of Uris Center for Education and the Grand Teton National Park Visitor’s Center in Moose, Wyoming. Some of his current projects include the design of the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx; the Williams College N./S. Academic Buildings in Williams, MA; Johnson Museum in Ithaca, NY: American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial in Washington, DC; the Clark Art Institute renovation in Williamstown, MA; and the renovation of the Islamic Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In addition to receiving the Illuminating Engineering Society‘s Lumen Citation for his work on Grand Central Terminal, his work on the Portland Museum of Art was recognized with the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Lumen Award. Richard also received Illuminating Engineering Society Citations for his lighting design for the restoration of the Rose Reading Room at the New York Public Library; the New Amsterdam Theatre; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; Creative Discovery Museum; Eugene Performing Arts Center and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Most recently, he received Lumen Awards for his lighting design of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Art Cave, and the Fragonard Room at The Frick Collection.

Richard is a member of the International Association of Lighting Designers, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America and the IESNA Committee on Museum and Art Gallery Lighting. He formerly served on the advisory board of the University Of Arkansas School Of Architecture.