Richard Renfro    IALD, IES, ASSOC. AIA

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 established Renfro Design Group,
Inc. in 1998. Prior to Renfro Design Group, Inc., he was a principal with Fisher Marantz Renfro Stone.

His experience includes lighting design for the most impressive museum, cultural, and civic projects in the world, including the Grand Central Terminal restoration in New York, NY; Saint Thomas Church in New York, NY; The Folk Art Museum in New York, NY; The Battery Park Ferry Terminal in New York, NY; the architectural and exhibit lighting for the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building in Kansas City, MO.

Every project at Renfro Design Group is infused with Mr. Renfro‘s artistic and technical vision. Mr.
Renfro has overseen the lighting design of the recently completed Aileron Campus in Dayton, OH; and
Yankee’s Stadium in Bronx, NY. Some of his current projects include the design of the Lakeside Center
at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY; Rubin Museum of Art Education Center in New York, NY; the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches, LA.; Johnson Museum in Ithaca, NY; The Frick Collection’s
Boucher Room in New York, NY; The Clark Museum and Manton buildings in Williamstown, MA; and
the Islamic and American Wing Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY.

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. Mr. Renfro also received Illuminating Engineering Society Citations 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 Robin Hood Library Initiative at P.S. 32, 21C Museum Hotel, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Art Cave, and the Fragonard Room at The Frick Collection.

Mr. Renfro is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the International Association of Lighting
Designers (IALD), the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY). He formerly served on the advisory board of the University of Arkansas School of Architecture.