JOEL KIPKEMBOI RICHARDSON (a.k.a. Jimmy Swann)

Joel Richardson is a contemporary artist whose work spans over twenty five years. His extensive body of art includes large-scale instillation, performance, re-workings of digital technology, video projections, portrait and mural painting as well as film and television.

Richardson became widely known for his controversial clash with Toronto's Mayor, Rob Ford when the mayor erased his 150 meter long mural of an equation of suitmen and women in business attire interspersed with the extensive Black-Scholes equation. This work was commissioned by the city of Toronto. The significance of this work with the eeriness of the Black-Scholes equation and its shady application to legally manipulate the stock markets, translated into further shows in New York, Miami, Moscow and Toronto. His past projects include a large scale multi-faceted interactive exhibition developed in collaboration with the Tom Thomson Gallery as well as his current travelling exhibition with Nyle “Miigizi” Johnston called GAGANOONIDIWAG.  Richardson is the co-founder of the celebrated Metipso Portal experimental media lab in the highlands of central Kenya and will be the featured in the OCAD-University Onsite Gallery major METIPSO WORLD exhibition September 2027.

Joel is an award winning member of the Director’s Guild of Canada and the Toronto based Time Travel Collective.