*Richie Wilde López*

Richie Wilde López is a queer Puerto Rican textile artist based in Philadelphia. Self-taught, his practice has developed through sustained studio experimentation, personal research, and material inquiry rather than traditional academic training.

Working primarily through weaving and embroidery, López investigates how textiles hold memory, lived experience, and the passage of time. His work considers preservation as a way of understanding how history, family, and cultural experience continue to exist within the present. The home, domestic labor, and the influence of the women who shaped his life remain recurring points of reference, embedded within both material and process.

Increasingly, López is interested in moving beyond memory alone toward presence. Rather than looking only at what has already been lived, his work asks what it means to remain with an experience as it is happening. He explores how making can become a form of sustained attention, allowing emotion, perception, and bodily experience to exist without immediate resolution.

Alongside his studio practice, López develops and facilitates textile-based workshops and community programs that center accessible making and collective engagement with textile traditions.

Please email info@paradigm-gallery.com to request to be added to Richie Wilde López's digital collector preview list for all of his upcoming projects and exhibitions. You may also submit your request HERE

Richie Wilde López's debut collection will be available for purchase below in September 2026. Read the press release here.