Charles Renfro is a Partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro. He received the Texas Medal of the Arts Award (2015). He was named a National Academy Academician (2014). He was honored as a Rice University Distinguished Alumnus (2012). He is President of the Board at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York.He joined Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in 1997 and became a partner in 2004. He has led the design for a number of projects including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and Zaryadye Park, a 35-acre park adjacent to the Kremlin in Moscow. He has also led a number of academic projects at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and Brown University, and is currently designing new facilities for Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Toronto. He is also currently leading the renovation of Dallas's Kalita Humphreys Theater - Frank Lloyd Wright's only built free-standing theater. Abroad, Charles is leading the design of the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro, and the Tianjin Juilliard School in China. He is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts.
