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Education
BFA, Printmaking, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME. 2013
Apprenticeship, Art Glass Design, Theory and Praxis of Stained Glass Window
Manufacturing, Staatliche Glasfachschule, Hadamar, Germany
Selected solo and two-person shows
Material Matters, Big Happy, Santa Fe, NM. 2025
War Paintings, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. 2010
Strange Beauty, Center For Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. 2009
The Singular/The Eternal. Victoria Price, Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM. 2008
BearableLightness, solo exhibition at the Works on Paper Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. 2006
Selected group shows
Maine College of Art, Portland, ME. 2024
Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Shape In All It's Forms, Brooklyn, NY, Juror: Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, 2021.
Center for Contemporary Arts, CCAN 2021, Abilene, TX.
Ely Center of Contemporary Art, What Surrounds, New Haven, CT. 2020
Superfine! 2018, Washington, D.C. 2018
University of Texas at Tyler, 32nd Annual International Exhibition, Texas. 2017
(re)LAUNCH, Offroad Productions, Santa Fe, NM, Santa Fe Collective, Santa Fe, NM.2015
Art Mechanics and Repair Shop, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. 2014
LaGrange National XXVII Biennial, LaGrange Art Museum, Juror: Dr. Robert. Steele, Lagrange, Georgia. 2013
Galleri Urbane, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL. 2011
EDGE ZONES, southern mix, group exhibition, curated by Charo Oquet, Miami, FL. 2011
Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. 2009Victoria Price Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM. 2009
texas national 2009 - Juror: Mel Chin, Nacogdoches, TX. 2009
postcards from the edge, New York, NY. 2009
texas national 2008 - Juror: Roger Shimomura, Nacogdoches, TX. 2008
reflections, Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM. 2006
hand-pulled prints, Joe Basiste Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. 2005
BFA Show, Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, ME. 2002
Selected press
Brian Slattery, "What Surrounds and Ready Familiar," New Haven Independent, 2019
McLister, Iris McLister, "Out of their heads: "The Kinesphere of You and Me," Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, 2017
Jan Ernst Adlmann, "life on the assemblage line - summoning up Santa Fe's found-object artists," Santafean Magazine, 2011
Kathryn M. Davis, "War Paintings," Art Ltd, 2011
Hammond, Harmony "War Paintings," Journal North, 2010
Kathryn M. Davis, "War Paintings at Box Gallery," THE Magazine, 2010
Arp Tyler, "War Paintings at Box Gallery," Santa Fe Reporter Picks, 2010
Marin Sardy,"Rita Bard War Paintings at Box Gallery art Preview," Santafean Magazine,
Michael Abatemarco,"Business is only part of our business," Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, 2010
Michael Abatemarco, "strange beauty," Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, 2009
Kim Russo, "Back and Forth," Journal North, 2009
Kathleen Roberts, "Imagination Overdrive," Journal Santa Fe, 2008
Leanne Goebel, "mind the gap," Excerpt from Eight Modern Gallery, 2008
Meghan Ferguson, "mind the gap, Rita Bard," Visual Blender Blog , 2008
Bard works and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Born in Kentucky, USA
Copyright Rita Bard, 2025