Ricardo Mendoza creates transformative works for public sites rooted in a socially responsive and resourceful aesthetic. As artist and designer, he embraces challenging material exchanges bridging conceptual design-build capacities, fabrication, and installation with a variety of innovative mural-making techniques, including mosaic, painting, metals, castings, digital media, and sculptural three-dimensional applications.

His work also includes compelling utilitarian environmental design projects, completing numerous artist-designed retail installations, including public street-furnishing commissions.