Randall Exon is a mid-career representational painter whose landscapes and figurative works are filled with dream-like mystery and pastoral beauty. They evoke an alluring sense of place and people, inspiring feelings of both nostalgia and wonder. His works allude to ordinary life while expressing a sense of the extraordinary. Exon was born in South Dakota and raised in Kansas and Oregon. He received a BFA from Washburn University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. He has been teaching at Swarthmore College since 1982, and is today the Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Professor of Art. He has earned him recognition as a Henry Luce Scholar, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Prize from the National Academy of Design in New York, and the Thomas Benedict Clark Prize at the 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum of Fine Arts in New York.