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

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

Richardson became widely known for his controversial clash with Toronto's Mayor, Rob Ford when the mayor erased his 150 meter long mural of a 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 recent majorprojects include a large scale multi-faceted interactive exhibition developed in collaboration with the Tom Thomson Gallery as well as the establishment of an experimental cultural portal and media lab built in a mud hut in Central Kenya called the Metipso Portal.

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