R.D. Riccoboni

Riccoboni participated in the collaborative Art & Architecture exhibition held throughout March 2021 at The Studio Door. For this exhibition, Riccoboni and other artists were brought together to recognize historic landmarks in San Diego.

He settled down in California in 1993 after moving between New York and California for a couple years. Prior to his career in art, Riccoboni worked in banking and human resources. His move to California in 1993 and his resurgent pursuit of art coincided with the many losses he experienced due to the AIDS epidemic, including many of his close friends. He started printmaking and entered his work into charity fundraisers for the AIDs cure, including an AIDs project in West Hartford where one of his three entered pieces received "Best in Show." His artwork was discovered by Aubrey Walter, the founder of the UK Gay Liberation Front, who then wrote a book solely on Riccoboni on his work.

Randy David Riccoboni (born 1960) is a painter known for his colorful architectural paintings, landscapes, and portrait work. He has used his work to bring attention to important issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community, especially the AIDS epidemic and the legalization of gay marriage in the U.S. He also uses his work to emphasize the beauty he finds in the architecture and landscapes around him and has compiled many of his works into books.

Riccoboni has a collection of his stylized paintings of Balboa park compiled into a booklet titled "The Art Traveler Guide: A Portrait of Balboa Park." It is over fifty pages of his work and is designed to be carried on walk-through tours of the park. His paintings of the scenery and architectural structures of the park began ten years prior to the release of the booklet, which was created with Ann Jarmusch and the Save Our Heritage Organization (SOHO) in honor of the 100-year anniversary of the 1915 California-Panama Exposition.