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

Big Happy Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. 2026

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