Richard Koscher (born in Austria) is an Austrian-American painter working in oil. His practice is grounded in appropriation, treating the techniques and imagery of art history as working material rather than as reference. He is the author of REVEAL: The Empowerment of Appropriation Art (2024) published by Snap Collective, which sets out this method across more than eighty of his paintings.

He is currently developing Ghosts of the Ice, a body of work that extends the method to climate. The paintings are made in thermochromic pigment and mounted in electrically heated frames fitted with a viewer-controlled dial, so that the image leaves the panel as the surface warms. The frames are in prototype. Alongside the paintings, the project includes a documentary film in production, a serialized blog, and an original album.

Koscher completed The Arctic Circle expeditionary residency in July 2026, sailing the Svalbard archipelago aboard the three-masted schooner Rembrandt van Rijn, and will be in residence at the Spitsbergen Artists Center in Longyearbyen in 2027.

Recent exhibitions include Icons, Rebels & Saints, Wallbox Gallery (2025); the Austrian National Day cultural program at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center (2024); and Reveal, The Caldwell Gallery (2022). His work has raised funds for the Equal Justice Initiative, No Kid Hungry, Save Sight Now, NRDC and HelpUsHelp.charity. He has worked as a senior creative director in visual communication for thirty years.