b. Louisville, Ky, USA
lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
email: ritabard@comcast.net
instagram: rita.bard.5
EDUCATION
2002
• BFA, Printmaking, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, Awarded 2013
1978-80
• Apprenticeship, Art Glass Design, Theory and Praxis of Stained Glass Window Manufacturing, Staatliche Glasfachschule, Hadamar, Germany
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS
2019
• Seriously Funny, Artifact, Santa Fe, NM
2010
• war paintings, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009
• strange beauty, Center For Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008
• the singular and the eternal - imagine the world, Victoria Price, Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
2006
• bearable lightness, solo exhibition at the Works on Paper Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2021
• Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Shape In All It's Forms, Brooklyn, NY, Juried by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
2020
• Online Exhibition, Choreography In Time And Space, Between the rails in the west
2019
• Inpost, Cold Sweat, Rita Bard, Loc Huynh, Laura Wacha, Albuquerque, NM
• Ely Center of Contemporary Art, What Surrounds, New Haven, CT
• Axle Contemporary, Drawing and Driving, Santa Fe, NM
• Flynndog Gallery, Inside the Dollhouse: A Tale of Whimsy and Feminine Myth, Burlington, VT
• La Sala Gallery, Under The Influences, Galisteo, NM
2018
• Superfine! 2018, Washington, D.C.
• Respiration, Aqua Regia, Santa Fe, NM
• La Sala Gallery, Best Seat in the House Show with 30 New Mexico artists, Galisteo, NM
• Artspace Gallery, Language of Perception, 3 person show with Douglas Degges, Maureen O'Leary, and Rita Bard, Loveland, CO
2017
• The University of Texas at Tyler, 32nd Annual International Exhibition, Juror Ken Little, Tyler, Texas
• Art.i.fact, Taking Back Orange, Santa Fe, NM
• Axle Contemporary, Local Color, Santa Fe, NM
2016
• Art's Birthday, Santa Fe (first ever), Santa Fe, NM
• Santa Fe Collective, Santa Fe, NM
2015
• (re)LAUNCH, Offroad Productions, Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Collective, Santa Fe, NM
• My Spirit Animal, Santa Fe Collective, Santa Fe, NM
2014
• Art Mechanics and Repair Shop, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2012
• LaGrange National XXVII Biennial, LaGrange Art Museum, Juror Dr. Robert. Steele, Lagrange, Georgia
2011
• Galleri Urbane, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL
• LAUNCH PROJECTS, interference, Rita Bard, Jamie Hamilton, Lucrecia Troncoso, Santa Fe, NM
• EDGE ZONES, southern mix, group exhibition, curated by Charo Oquet, Miami, FL
2010
• EDGE ZONES, duodecad, group exhibition, curated by Charo Oquet, Miami, FL
• LAUNCH PROJECTS, group exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
• ART Santa Fe , Santa Fe, NM
2009
• ART Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
• Victoria Price Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
• texas national 2009 - Juror Mel Chin, Nacogdoches, TX
• postcards from the edge, New York, NY
2008
• Victoria Price Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
• postcards from the edge, New York, NY
• mind the gap, Eight Modern, Santa Fe, NM
• texas national 2008 - Juror Roger Shimomura, Nacogdoches, TX
2007
• postcards from the edge, New York, NY
2006
• reflections, Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM
• postcards from the edge, New York, NY
• outnumbered, Jack Rabbit Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
• Works on Paper Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2005
• New Mexico Printmakers Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• arts feast, Jack Rabbit Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
• hand-pulled prints, Joe Basiste Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• 8 x 8, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2004
• New Mexico Printmakers Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• 8 x 8, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2002
• 100 Market Street Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
• Round Table Gallery and Book Store, Ogunquit, ME
• BFA Show, Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, ME
• portland atlas project, Portland, ME
• annual Boston printmakers Juried Show, Boston, MA
• annual juried spring show, Ogunquit, ME
SELECTED PRESS
• Slattery, Brian. "What Surrounds and Ready Familiar," New Haven Independent, 2019
• McLister, Iris. "Out of their heads: "The Kinesphere of You and Me," Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, 2017
• Adlmann, Jan Ernst. "life on the assemblage line - summoning up Santa Fe's found-object
• artists," Santafean Magazine, 2011
• Davis, Kathryn M. "War Paintings," Art Ltd, 2011
• Hammond, Harmony. "War Paintings," Journal North, 2010
• Davis, Kathryn M. "War Paintings at Box Gallery," THE Magazine, 2010
• Tyler, Arp. "War Paintings at Box Gallery," Santa Fe Reporter Picks, 2010
• Sardy, Marin. "Rita Bard War Paintings at Box Gallery art Preview," Santafean Magazine,
• Abatemarco, Michael. "Business is only part of our business," Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, 2010
• Abatemarco, Michael. "strange beauty," Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, 2009
• Russo, Kim. "Back and Forth," Journal North, 2009
• Roberts, Kathaleen. "Imagination Overdrive," Journal Santa Fe, 2008
• Goebel, Leanne. "mind the gap," Excerpt from Eight Modern Gallery, 2008
• Ferguson, Meghan. "mind the gap, Rita Bard," Visual Blender Blog , 2008
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