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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

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