RITA McBRIDE


1960 born in Des Moines, Iowa, lives and works in Düsseldorf
1982 BA, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York
1987 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1999/2000 Visiting Professor at Kunstakademie Munich and ENSBA, Paris
seit 2003 Professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf



SOLO SHOWS (selected)

2007 Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
2006 "HEX.PRO.JIG", Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich
"Double to Watch, Triple to Help", Alexander and Bonin, New York
2004 "Exhibition", Sculpture Center, Long Island City/NY
"Mae West and the Middle Managers", Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
"Middle Managers/Self-Storage", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne
"No Fixed Address", ArtSpeak, Vancouver, CAN
2003 "Vehicles and Vessels", Alexander and Bonin, New York
2002 "General Growth", Institut d'artcontemporain, Lyon, F
"Naked Came the Stranger", Kumstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
"Servants and Slaves", Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich
2001 "472 New Positions", DePont Stichting, Tilburg, NL
"White Elephant and Albatrosses", Alexander and Bonin, New York
"Machines", Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
2000 "Secession: Tower", Viennaer Secession, Vienna
"RitaMcBride/Julius Shulman", Adamski Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne (with Julius Shulman)
"Werkshow", Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
"Her House with the Upstairs in it", DAAD Galerie, Berlin
1999 "National Chain", galerie deux, Tokyo
"Aloof and Incidental", Annemarie Verna Galerie und Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
"Rita McBride & To Be Announced", Kunstverein München, Munich
1997 "Arena & National Chain", Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
"Rita McBride", Alexander and Bonin, New York
"Hyperinclusion", OSMOS, Berlin
"The Donkey's Way and Piggybackback"
(Kollaboration with Catherine Opie and Lawrence Weiner) Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
1996 "Rita McBride and Piggybackback" (Kollaboration with Catherine Opie and Lawrence Weiner) Galerie Bela Jarzyk, Cologne
1995 "Gilded Carriages and The Donkey's Way and La Concierge"
(Kollaboration with Hsin-Ming Fung), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 "Backsliding, sideslipping, one Great Leap and the 'forbidden'",
Michael Klein Gallery, New York
"Fatal Egg", Ausstellungsbüro Michael Schill, Stuttgart
1993 "Silent Encounters Between Two Peaks", Mu" -Terem Kiallito, Budapest
"Wise women caught breathing", Studio Galeria, Budapest
1992 "There would be no leaves to rake on Sunday", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Fat Man, The Spine, The Spineless and Thin Corners",
Michael Klein Inc., New York
1990 "Heimat with Funkturm", Standard Graphik, Cologne
"Rita McBride", Margo Leavin Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1989 "Rita McBride", Galeria Atlantica, Porto



GROUP SHOWS (selected)

2007 "The World as a Stage", Tate Modern, London
"Pure", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
2006 "Plane/Figure. American Art in Swiss Private Collections", Kunstmuseum Winterthur
"Neue Kunst in Alten Gärten 2006", Gehrden-Lenthe
2005 "raumfürraum", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
"Farsites/Sitios Distantes", San Diego Museum of Art; Centro Cultural Tijuana
2004 "100 Artists see God", The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco,
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Contemporary Art Center, Virginia Beach
"the gallery selects...", Alexander and Bonin, New York
"Close by: Time Space Architecture", Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
2003 "Auto-Nom", NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf
"Micro-Utopias", Bienal de Valencia, Spain
"Living Inside the Grid", New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2002 "Building Structures", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
"GROUP EFFECT", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne
"2002 Taipei Biennial", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
"Artists Imagine Architecture", ICA Boston
"VorOrt", Galerie der Künstler, München
2001 "Archisculptures", Kunstverein Hannover
"funktional, fiktional", Kunsthalle zu Kiel
2000 "HausSchau"; das Haus in der Kunst, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"What if; Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design", Moderna Museet, Stockholm
"Please Let my Affections Lead me into Danger", Galerie Bernd Klüser, München
"Over The Edges-The Corners of Ghent", Stedelijk Museum Actuele Kunst, Ghent
1999 "Hitchcock", Kunsthalle Tirol
"1999 Drawings"; Alexander and Bonin, New York
"Rita McBride and Glen Rubsamen: Berlin lietzensee", Konditorei Kamman, Berlin
"Rita McBride, Sylvia Plimack Mangold & To Be Announced", Alexander and Bonin, New York
"Urban Visions: Rita McBride, Marjetica Potrc, Sophie Tottie",
The Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (catalogue)
1998-99 "Bodies in Transit", Galeria Pedro Oliveira
"Photographs", Alexander and Bonin, New York
1998 "Architecture! Architecture! Architecture!", Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York
"Construction in Process VI: The Bridge", Melbourne, AUS
"Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art",
The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
"Travel and Leisure", Paula Cooper, New York
"Architecture & Inside", Paul Morris Gallery, New York
"Corpos em Trânsito", Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
1997 "Structures: Buildings in American Art, 1900-1997", John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
"Maxwell's Demon", Margo Levin Gallery, Los Angeles
1996 "The Bare Wall", Michael Klein Gallery, New York
"Büro Orange", Siemans Kultur Programm, München
1995 "25 Years", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Woodworks", Michael Klein Gallery, New York
"Critical Distance: Between Art and Architecture", Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, NY
"Call it Sleep", Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
"Watt", Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL


PUBLIC SCULPTURES

2006 Mae West, Munich (planned)
2002 Arena, Salford, UK


AWARDS & GRANTS

1989 Artist in Residence, Carson City, Nevada
1991-92 American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts, Rome, Italy
1995 Artist in Residence, Fundacio Pilar i Joan a Mallorca, Palma, Mallorca
1999 DAAD Stipendium, Berlin
2002 Guggenheim Stipendium, WTC Competition Team



BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Futureways". Edited by Rita McBride and Glen Rubsamen. Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver
Whitney Museum of American Art, Printed Matter, Inc., New York 2004
"Heartways": The Exploits of Genny O. Edited by Rita McBride and Erin Cosgrove. ArsenalAdvance, Vancouver, Whitney Museum of American Art, Printed Matter, Inc., New York 2003
"Futureways". New York: Printed Matter, Inc. and Whitney Museum of American Art (Futureways: The Middelburg Triennial 2304, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands), 2003
Gina Ashcraft: "Nackt kam der Fremde". Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz 2002
Gina Ashcraft: "Naked Came The ****". Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz 2002
Huitorel, Jean-Marc, Sugitra Gantner. "Rita McBride General Growth". Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbane 2002
Van Den Boogerd, Dominic. Rita McBride: "472 New Positions", De Pont, Tilburg 2001
Marí, Bartomeu, Margrit Brehm, Jessica Morgan, Dirk Snauwaert, Matthias Winzen. David Gray, "Werkshow".
Staaliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2000
Choon, Annette, Dirk Snauwaert, Matthias Winzen, "Rita McBride & To Be Announced"
Siemens Kulturprogramm, Kunstverein München; Oktagon Verlag, Köln, 1999
Marí, Bartomeu, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Christian Rattemeyer, David Gray, ed. "Rita McBride", Annemarie Verna Galerie, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Alexander and Bonin, New York 1999
Kelly, Michelle, Rita McBride: "The Donkey's Way" Porto: Galeria Pedro Oliveira, 1997
Marí, Bartomeu, Christian Rattemeyer, Paloma Schultz and Dominic van der Boogerd,
"Arena", Witte de With, Rotterdam 1997



PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selected)

Bundeskunstsammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Bonn
The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Neues Museum, Nürnberg
Frac Ile de France-Le Plateau, Paris
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL
Kunstmuseum, St.Gallen
DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, NL
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, LI
Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, F
Wake Forest University Collection, North Carolina
Kunsthaus, Zurich, CH