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