| 1934 | Born in Beaumont, Texas |
| 1976 | Travel Grant, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. |
| 1966-69 | M.F.A., University of Texas, Austin, Texas. |
| 1968 | Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. |
| 1957 | Yale-Norfolk, Norfolk, Connecticut. |
| 1953-57 | B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1952-53 | Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. |
| 2006 | Richard Stout: The Arc of Perception, Houston, TX, March 23 - 25. |
| 2004 | Richard Stout: Approaching the Limits of Space, Houston, TX. |
| 2001 | Richard Stout: In Persuit of the Sublime, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art (now Gerald Peters Gallery), Dallas, TX. |
| 1999 | Richard Stout: Intimate Journey, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas traveled to Brevard County Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, Florida. Richard Stout: Vernacular of Beauty Houston, Texas. |
| 1998 | Richard Stout, Galveston Art Center. Richard Stout: Paints, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana. Richard Stout: Paintings, Mulcahy Modern, Dallas, Texas. |
| 1997 | Richard Stout: Structures of Intimacy,Houston, Texas. Richard Stout: Paintings & Drawings, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas. |
| 1996 | Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
| 1994 | Davis/McCain Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
| 1991 | W.A. Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
| 1989 | W.A. Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
| 1988 | W.A. Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
| 1987 | W.A. Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
| 1985 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1984 | M.S.C. Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. |
| 1983 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. Touchstone Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
| 1981 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1980 | Jurgen Schweinebraden, Berlin, Germany. |
| 1979 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1978 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1977 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1976 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1975 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1973 | Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas. |
| 1971 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. The Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas. |
| 1969 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1968 | Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1966 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1964 | The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| 1963 | Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1961 | The Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas. |
| 1959 | The New Arts Gallery, Houston, Texas. The Hayden Calhoun Galleries, Dallas, Texas. |
| 1958 | The Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas. |
| 2000 | Group Exhibition, Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art (now Gerald Peters Gallery), Dallas, Texas. |
| 1996 | Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas. The Texas Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Texas Modern and Postmodern, Curated by Alison de Lima Greene, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. |
| 1995 | Faith in Vision, Curated by Doug Blake, Transco Gallery, Transco Tower, Houston, Texas. |
| 1993 | Texas Art Celebration, Juried Exhibition, David Ross, Assistance League of Houston, Texas. Conventional forms / Insidious Visions, The Glassell School of Art, Curated by Elizabeth McBride, Houston, Texas. |
| 1992 | Island Inspired, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas. |
| 1991 | Texas Art Celebration '91, juried exhibition, Assistance League of Houston, Texas. |
| 1989 | Texas Figurative Art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas. The Food Show, Grand Central Galleries, New York, New York. Looking at Color, Transco Tower, Houston, Texas. |
| 1988 | Texas Art, Richmond Hall, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas. McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas. Houston 88, 1600 Smith, Houston, Texas. |
| 1986 | The Texas Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. (catalogue). |
| 1985 | Works on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. (catalogue. Fresh Paint, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. (catalogue, Barbara Rose) The Avant Old Guard, 1600 Smith, Houston, Texas. 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Meredith Long and Co., Houston, Texas. |
| 1983-84 | New Art From a New City: Houston, exhibition traveled through Austria and Germany. |
| 1983 | New Orleans Museum of Art Triennial, New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 1982 | Art from Houston in Norway, Stavenger Kunstforening, Norway. |
| 1981 | Gallerie de Arti Pellegrino, Bologna, Italy. |
| 1980 | Gallerie Thommen, Basel, Switzerland. Eros, Julius Hummel Kunsthandlung, Vienna. Man and the Environment, International Graphic Portfolio, 50 invited artists, Jurgen Schweinebraden, East Berlin, Germany. |
| 1979 | Achenbach & Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, West Germany. Doors, Houston, Texas. |
| 1977 | International Art Fair, Cologne, West Germany. Art Today: U.S.A.III, Tehran, Iran. Texas Twenty, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas. Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas. |
| 1976-78 | Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas. |
| 1975 | Five Painters, Pollock Galleries, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. |
| 1974 | Abstract Painting in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. |
| 1973 | Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. |
| 1971 | The Other Coast, Cal State at Long Beach, Long Beach, California. Touring Exhibition of New Works of Former Award Winners, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas. |
| 1970-71 | Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas. |
| 1970 | Award Winners Exhibition, Museum of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Highway, Rice University, Istitute for the Arts, Houston, Texas. |
| 1968 | Contemporary American Art, sponsored by U.S>Department of Commerce, toured Australia for 2 years The Sphere of Art in Texas, The Hemisfair, San Antonio, Texas. |
| 1967-80 | The University of Houston, Faculty Exhibition, Houston, Texas. |
| 1966 | 100 Contemporary American Drawings, The Museum of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
| 1965 | Texas Painting and Sculpture Annual, Witte Museum, San Antonio and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas. |
| 1964 | Festival of the Bible in the Arts, Temple Emanuel, Houston, Texas. Houston Dimension Exhibition, Houston, Texas. |
| 1961-70 | Oklahoma Annual Exhibition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
| 1961 | Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. |
| 1960-80 | Merdeth Long and Co., Houston and New York. |
| 1960-70 | The Sun Carnival Annual Exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas. |
| 1960 | The Fifth International Hallmark Art Award, Wildenstein Gallery, New York City, New York. The American Provicetown Exhibition Provicetown, Massachusetts. The Butler Institute of Art Annual, Youngstown, Ohio. Delgado Museum of Art Annual Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 1958-59 | The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. |
| 1958-60 | The New Arts Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
| 1957-58 | The Cushman Gallery, Houston, Texas. The Wells Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1957 | The Momentum Mid-Continental Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois. Denver Museum of Art, Annual Exhibition, Denver, Colorado. Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1956 | The 1014 Art Center, with Jack Beal, Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1955-78 | Beaumont Art Museum Tri-State Annual, Beaumont, Texas. |
| 1953-57 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1952-53 | Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio. |
| 1951-52 | Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas. |
| 1979 | Design for Bobby Short / Alberta Hunter Benefit, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. |
| 1971 | The Larger Canvas, original billboard program of advertising for the Houston National Bank, Houston, Texas. |
| 1968 | Mural for lower lobby of the Institute of Texas Cultures, Bayou Building at the University of Houston at Clear Lake. |