Peter Richards is a Belfast-based artist working across various media, including photography, installation, and performance.

His artistic inquiry explores how we form our understanding and subscribe to truth, and our capacity to suspend disbelief in order to uphold chosen beliefs. This theme is central to his practice, having long questioned the formation and influence of his own beliefs. His earlier works often engaged with mediated experiences, particularly how the combination of text and image shapes thought.

Richards exhibits internationally and was part of Northern Ireland's inaugural presentation at the Venice Biennale in 2005.

His solo exhibitions have been held at venues including: Millennium Court Art Centre, Portadown; Richards, ZDSLU gallery, Ljubljana The Naughton Gallery, Belfast; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Model Arts Centre/ Niland Gallery, Sligo; Peter Richards, Studio Lipoli & Lopez, Rome; and the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. He has also participated in group exhibitions, including: Dogs Have No Religion, curator R. Drury, Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague; L'art dans le monde at the Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; NI gulp, curator W. Baerwald, Plug In ICA Gallery, Winnipeg; The National Review of Live Art, selected by R. Ayers, The Arches, Glasgow; The notice day in this factory is Thursday, Het Consortium, Amsterdam; Bruce Barber, Peter Richards & Vallentin Torrens, curator J. Swidinski, Galeria Dzialan, Warsaw; 2e Recontre International d’art Performance, curator R. Martel, Quebec  and New Contemporaries 99 at the South London Gallery.