Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ron Knepper lived in New York City for fourteen years where he taught at New York's Parsons School of Design. Ron was a seasonal sculptor for Macy's Parade Studio, creating objects for the Thanksgiving Day Parade Floats. His techniques and oeuvre are vast, from traditional figurative objects to purely abstract forms. 

He was a visiting artist at the Kent Institute of Art at Canterbury, England and a Finalist for a Henry Moore Fellowship at the Wimbledon School of Art, Wimbledon, England. Other teaching posts include Bilken University, Ankara, Turkey, and Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is currently teaching 2-D courses for Purdue University Fort Wayne.

His work is in various private and public collections in the United States, including a 2005 bronze monument of Pere' Marquette, installed at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; a 2006 bronze sculpture of Special Forces soldier Pedro Munoz, killed in Afghanistan, installed at the Military Museum at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and a baptismal font for the Krauss Chapel at Trinity English Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.