RITA MCBRIDE

1960 Born in Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Lives and works in Düsseldorf and Los Angeles. 

Education
1987 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia 
1982 BA, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY 

Awards and Residencies

2021-2023
Lee Krasner Award, Pollock-Krasner Foundation

2003-present
Professor for Integration of Art and Architecture, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2013-2017
Director, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2002
Artist-in-Residence-Stipendium, Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
Cultural board of the City of Hamburg Residency
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
World Trade Center Competition, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill team

1999-2000
Guest professor, Kunstakademie Munich

1999-2000
DAAD Residency, Berlin

1995
Artist in Residence, Fundació Pilar í Joan Miró, Palma, Mallorca

1991-1992
Academy in Rome, Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts

1989
Artist in Residence, XS Gallery, Western Nevada College, Carson City, NV

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023-2025
Rita McBride. Arena Momentum, Dia Beacon, New York

2024
Rita McBride, leeway, Galerie Fons Welter, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2023-2024
Rita McBride. Particulates, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2021
Rita McBride. Rita McBride, Alexandra Waierstall and Fontys Dance Academy, De Pont Museum, Netherlands

2018
Rita McBride. National Treasures | EXTENSION including Rita McBride, Clages, Cologne, Germany

2017
Rita McBride. Explorer, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
Rita McBride. Particulates, Dia:Chelsea, New York, NY, USA
Rita McBride. Leitplanken, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2016
Rita McBride. Clavis, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Rita McBride. Gesellschaft: Rita McBride, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rita McBride. Gesellschaft, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany

2015
Rita McBride. Gesellschaft, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
Rita McBride. Access: Rita McBride, Alexander and Bonin Gallery, New York, USA
Rita McBride. Gesellschaft, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

2014
Rita McBride. Bad Thoughts: Collection Martijn and Jeannette Sanders: Rita McBride, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rita McBride. What Models Can Do: Rita McBride, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Rita McBride. 1984?: Rita McBride, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Rita McBride. Pattern and Decoration: Rita McBride, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Rita McBride. Another Place / Another Space / Together: Rita McBride, Off-und Projekträume, Leeschenhof, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rita McBride. Public Tilt: Rita McBride, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA

2013
Rita McBride. Civic Citations, BENVENISTE Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
Rita McBride. Transaccion publica Rite McBride, Museo Tamayo, Mexico

2012
Rita McBride. Oferta Pública / Public Tender by Rita McBride, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

2010
Rita McBride. Perfiles, Carreras Mugica, Bilbao, Spain
Rita McBride. Way Out West, Clages Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Rita McBride. Previously, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Rita McBride. Profili, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

2009
Rita McBride. New Markers, Tell Me Something Good (in collaboration with Kim Schoenstadt), Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Rita McBride and Kim Schoenstadt: Tell Me Something Good, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Rita McBride. Blindsided and Divided, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

2008
Rita McBride. Settlers, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Rita McBride. Some Settlements, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rita McBride. Public Works, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Rita McBride and Koenraad Dedobbeleer: Tight, Repeating Boredom, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon Travelled to: Kunsthalle Bern; Kunstmuseum aan Zee, Ostend, Belgium

2007
Rita McBride. Civic Sculpture in Memoriam, Museum X, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Rita McBride. Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Rita McBride. New Tribune (in collaboration with Manuel Graf), General Public, Berlin, Germany
Rita McBride and Tony Brown: Live Feed/Slighted Curiosity, Galerie ColletPark, Paris, France
Rita McBride. Mae West and the Hyperbolic Parabola, Galerie Klüser 2, Munich, Germany
Rita McBride and Glen Rubsamen: Hyperbolic Parabola, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany

2006
Rita McBride. HEX,PRO,JIG, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Rita McBride. Double to Watch, Triple to Help, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA

2004
Rita McBride. Exhibition, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
Rita McBride. Middle Managers/Self-Storage, Galerie Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany
Rita McBride. Mae West and the Middle Managers, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Rita McBride. No Fixed Address, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
Rita McBride. Funkturm Fern Bar at the Spaghetti Works (in collaboration with Glen Rubsamen), Y8, Hamburg, France

2003
Rita McBride. Vehicles and Vessels, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA

2002
Rita McBride. Servants and Slaves, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Rita McBride. Naked Came the Stranger, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Rita McBride. Croissance Générale/General Growth, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France

2001
Rita McBride. 472 New Positions, De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Rita McBride. White Elephant and Albatrosses, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Rita McBride. Machines, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

2000
Rita McBride. Her House with the Upstairs in It, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Rita McBride. Werkshow, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Travelled to: Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Rita McBride. Secession Tower, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

1999
Rita McBride Arena & To Be Announced, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Rita McBride. Aloof and Incidental, Annemarie Verna Galerie and Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Rita McBride. National Chain, Galerie Deux, Tokyo, Japan
Rita McBride. Berlin Lietzensee (in collaboration with Glen Rubsamen), Konditorei Kammann, Berlin, Germany

1997
Rita McBride. The Donkey’s Way and Piggybackback (in collaboration with Catherine Opie and Lawrence Weiner), Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Rita McBride. Hyperinclusion, OSMOS, Berlin, Germany
Rita McBride. Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Rita McBride. Arena & National Chain, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1996
Rita McBride and Piggybackback (in collaboration with Catherine Opie and Lawrence Weiner), Galerie Béla Jarzyk, Cologne, Germany

1995
Rita McBride. Gilded Carriages and The Donkey’s Way (in collaboration with Hsin-Ming Fung) and La Concierge, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1994
Rita McBride. Fatal Egg, Ausstellungsbüro Michael Schill, Stuttgart, Germany
Rita McBride. Backsliding, Sideslipping, One Great Leap and the “Forbidden,” Michael Klein Gallery, New York, USA

1993
Rita McBride. Wise Women Caught Breathing, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
Rita McBride. Silent Encounters Between Two Peaks, Müterem Kiállító, Budapest, Hungary

1992
Rita McBride. Parts, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
Rita McBride. Percival Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Rita McBride. The Fat Man, The Spine, The Spineless, and Thin Corners, Michael Klein, Inc., New York, USA
Rita McBride. There Would Be no Leaves to Rake on Sunday, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1990
Rita McBride. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Rita McBride. Heimat mit Funkturm, Standard Graphik, Cologne, Germany

1989
Rita McBride. Men to Match My Mtns, XS Gallery, Western Nevada College, Carson City, Nevada, USA
Rita McBride. Galeria Atlântica, Porto, Portugal

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Born Digital: Videokunst im neuen Millennium, Kunsthaus Zürich
True Crime, Filmwerkstatt, Düsseldorf
The Wilds of Epiphenomena, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles
à l’heure de l’observatoire (with Glen Rubsamen), Atelier Gordon Evans, Brussels
lalalandlord, Container, New York

2023-2024
'1/3 and 1/7', St Gertrud’s Chapel, Cologne
don’t you fear the void (EMBRACING) PROGRESS, Studio for Artistic Research Düsseldorf
New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching, MoMA, New York

2023
Daily Echo Free Mirror ( with Glen Rubsamen ), Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
In Between, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
Epiphenomena, Studio Kristin Posehn, Los Angeles
Mefies-vous de la realite, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris

2022
Practicing (in collaboration with Jeanne van den Horst), De Pont, Tilburg
20M29, Galerie M29, Cologne
Missing/Lost (Rita McBride with Glen Rubsamen), Riviera Parking, Santa Barbara
Beta Epochs, Beta Epochs, Los Angeles
I Continue To Live In My Glass House, Stefan Kürten and Rita McBride, Alexander and Bonin, New York

2021

RITA MCBRIDE & GLEN RUBSAMEN -LOS ANGELES, STATE OF MIND,  Gallerie d'Italia, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples, Italy
Dia: Chelsea, New York, USA
Womanology, José Ramón Prieto Collection, Museo De Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain

2019
Studiolo XXI- Desenho e Afinidades, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
Exposures, Alexander & Bonin, New York, USA

2018
Colección Macba. Bajo la Superficie, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
Mpa On Paper, Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Madrid, Spain
Räume besetzen, Werke von Bildhauerinnen, Kunstmuseum Winterthur / Beim Stadthaus, Switzerland
101 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Post Studio ArtMai, 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2017
Encounters, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Bury, UK
VARIABLE DIMENSIONS - ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTURE, MAAT | Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
Klöntal Triennale 2017, Part of a Moment, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Premium New Markers, Alexander and Bonin, New York , USA
Something Stronger Than Me, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967 - 2017, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Pompei@Madre. Materia Archeologica, Madre Museum, Naples, Italy

2016
Liverpool Biennial 2016, Liverpool, United Kingdom
30th Anniversary, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco Napoli, Italy
Everything Architecture, Office Kersten Geers and David van Severen BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
Mary und der Vulkan. Eine meteorolische Phantasmagorie, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany

2015
Display Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Le Corbusier dans l’art contemporain, Maison La Roche, Paris, France

2014
Bad Thoughts: Collection Martijn and Jeannette Sanders,Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
What Models Can Do, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany
1984?,Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Another Place / Another Space / Together, Off-und Projekträume in Düsseldof, Leeschenhof, Düsseldorf, Germany

2013
Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1945 to the Present, K20
Grabbeplatz, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lonelyfingers: Konversationsstücke, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Some Like It Hard: Sculptures in Bronze, dh artworks, Düsseldorf, Germany
Serralves Collection: Recent Works, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
IHRE GESCHICHTE(N), Bonner Kunstverein und Artothek, Bonn stadium, Arc en rêve centre d'architecture, Bordeaux, France
EMSCHERKUNST, 2013, Ruhr metropolis, France
Nenn mich nicht Stadt! Kunstmuseum St, Gallen, Switzerland

2012
Tomorrow Was Already Here, Museo Tamayo, México, D.F; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monerrey, Mexico
INTERVAL, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Community, BENVENISTE Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
RUNDE 1, dh artworks GbR, Düsseldorf, Germany
Steel Life, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, USA
The Grand Tour, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Stimuli, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA

2011
Making Is Thinking, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Catch Sight Screening, Clages Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Specific Collisions, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, Germany
2 oder 3 Dinge die ich von ihr weiss, Ästhetische Positionen zur Stadtentwicklung, MAP/The Chain, Düsseldorf, Dystopia, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Local Host, Internationale Künstler in/aus NRW, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germany

2010
Art First, Museo Archeologico, Bologna, Italy
Und/vor und zurück, Nach/rechts und zurück, Schwing/weit vor, zurück, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
Graphikedition der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2009, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
Look Up! Natural Porto Art Show, Lugares de Incerteza, Palacete Pinto Leite, Porto, Portugal
In Good Faith, Galerie M29 Richter und Brückner, Cologne, Germany

Memories of the Future, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Aber Schwarz ist keine Farbe, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Outside the Box, Edition Jacob Samuel,1988–2010, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Let's Talk About Houses, When Art Speaks Archiutecture: Building, Unbuilding, Inhabit, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Mona Hatoum, Stefan Kürten, and Rita McBride, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Schöner Wohnen, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

2009
Temps com a material, Col,leccio MACBA, Noves incorporacions, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Italy
Organ Mix, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
United Technologies, Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland
Public Garden, Public Generation, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
El mal d'escriptura, Un projecte sobre text i imaginació especulativa, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Gipfeltreffen der Moderne: Das Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Das Gespinst: Die Sammlung Schürmann zu Besuch im Museum Abteiberg, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Twelve Arguments Part I, Clages Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Twelve Arguments Part II, Clages Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Nina Canell, Sofia Hultén, Rita McBride, Jürgen Staack, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Exchanging Insights, Residence of the United States Ambassador to Germany, Berlin, Germany

2008
One Night Stand, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Parcours interdit, Malkastenpark, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
Second Nature, Galerie de l’Indépendance, Dexia Banque International, Luxemburg, Travelled to: Centre artistique et culturel, Chamarande, France
Zidovi na Ulici/Walls in the Street, Musej savramene umetnosti Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia
Stay Alive Till ’95, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Fabricateurs d’espace, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
2 x [ (2 x 20) + (2 x 2) ] +2 = X (Desperately) Trying to Figure out the World, Part I: Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Part II: Brooke Alexander, New York, USA
Rita McBride, Cornelia Parker, Eva Rothschild, Jessica Stockholder, Carreras Mugica, Bilbao, Spain
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, Artspeak, Vancouver, Travelled to: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, Spain; P,S,1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
In Serie, Johan Deumans, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Ästhetische Komplexe, Kunstverein Augsburg, Germany
Zeitblick: Ankäufe der Sammlung Zeitgenössische Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1998–2008, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
+ de réalité, Galerie de l’École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
Work from the De Vleeshal Collection 01, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The
Netherlands
Jahresausstellung: Kunst aus Neuss, Kulturforum Alte Post, Neuss, Germany

2007
Mimetic, Centre d’art de l’Yonne, Perrigny, France
Early Retirement, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Pure, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Bodycheck: 10, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany
Exit Music (for a Film), Grimm/Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, USA
Parcours interdit, Malkastenpark, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
MARTa schweigt, Garde le silence, le silence te gardera, MARTa Herford, Germany
The Fit, Galerie Nüans, Düsseldorf, Germany
Aus der Sammlung: Kein Ort, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London, Travelled to: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Architektur–Kunst? Galerie Reckermann, Cologne, Germany
Sept/7, Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France

2006
Plane/Figure: Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Neue Kunst in alten Gärten, Gehrden-Lenthe, Germany
Re: Location, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Classe Preferente, Galeria Graça Brandão, Porto, Portugal
Cities, Galerie Skopia, Geneva, Switzerland
The Bong Show, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
Shift: Im Spiegel der Verunsicherung, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
Pavillon der Bildhauerei, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ergens/Somewhere, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Transformation: Aus eigener Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Dedica, Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, Italy
Das letzte Wort in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Espacio Interior, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain
Réception, Musée municipal Robert Dubois-Corneau, Brunoy, France
Étranges mécaniques Domaine de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, France
Glass: Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

2005
Farsites/Sitios Distantes, San Diego Museum of Art; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico
Artists’ Books Revisited, Printed Matter, New York, Travelled to: Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Salon d’automne, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Sammlung 2005: Neupräsentation der erweiterten Sammlung, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Collectiepresentatie XI— Zomer 2005, De Zomer van Middelburg, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Der Kunst Ihre Räume, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Editions, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Le Génie du lieu, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
The Blake Byrne Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

2004
Sommerausstellung, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Raum für Raum, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
100 Artists See God, Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, Travelled to: Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Organized by ICI, New York, USA
Hülle und Idylle, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne, Germany
Für die Konstrtion des Unmöglichen, Europäische Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Eric Glavin, Robin Merkisch, Rita McBride, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germany
Wildlife, Neuss, Germany
The Gallery Selects, , , , Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
100 Mona Lisa valent mieux qu’une, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Close by: Time Space Architecture, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Mengenbüro, Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland
M29 Travel, Galerie M29, Cologne, Germany
Durchleuchtet: Dialog mit der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Bookies, Galerie M29, Cologne, Germany
Generations on the Move, Viper International, Basel, Switzerland
De werkelijkheid, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands

2003
Micro-Utopias, Bienal de Valencia, Spain
Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Sommerausstellung, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
+ ou – 5, 10, 15, 20—20 Ans d’une Collection, Le Plateau, FRAC Île-de-France, Paris, France
Wildlife, Neuss, Germany
Der (sich) produzierende Mensch, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein,Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Auto-nom, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
Group Effect, Galerie Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany
What Am I Doing Here? Esso Gallery, New York, USA
Artranspennine03, Transpennine region, England
Drawing on Architecture, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2002
Think Big/Voir grand, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada
VorOrt, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, Germany
Taipei Biennial 2002: Great Theatre of the World, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Building Structures, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
Artists Imagine Architecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Through a Sequence of Space, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
Sculpture, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Sommerpalast, Neuss, Germany
Something We Talked About, Brooke Alexander, Inc.; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Network, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Willie Doherty, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Rita McBride, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Something, Anything, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA

2001
Demonstration Room: Ideal House, Apex Art, New York, USA
Archisculptures, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, USA
Measure/Mass, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Funktional-Fiktional, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany

2000
Over the Edges: The Corners of Ghent, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Brussels
Please Let My Affections Lead Me into Danger, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Group Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
What If: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
HausSchau: das Haus in der Kunst, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Rita McBride, Julius Schulman, Galerie Adamski Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany

1999
Urban Visions, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Description Without Place, Staff USA, New York, USA
Rita McBride, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, & to be Announced, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Hitchcock, Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall in Tirol, Austria
Jubiläumsaustellung:30 Jahre Annemarie Verna Galerie, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

1998
Corpos em Trânsito, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Architecture and Inside, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, USA
Travel and Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
May 17, 1998, Cornish Estate, Cold Spring, New York, USA
Construction in Process VI: The Bridge, Melbourne, USA
Architecture! Architecture! Architecture! Hunter College Times Square Gallery, City University of New York, USA
Photographs, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA

1997
Maxwell’s Demon, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Structures: Buildings in American Art, 1900–97, John Berggruen Gallery, San
Francisco, USA

1996
Constructions, Michael Klein Gallery, New York, USA
Group Exhibition, Büro Orange, Munich, Switzerland
The Bare Wall! Michael Klein Gallery, New York, USA

1995
Call it Sleep, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Critical Distance: Between Art and Architecture, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, USA
Tu parles, j’écoute, Galerie Anne de Villepoix; Société Jet Lag K., Paris, France
Woodworks, Michael Klein Gallery, New York, USA
Twenty-five Years, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Literally Abstract, Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas, Arlington, USA

1994
An American Landscape, Michael Klein, Inc., New York, USA
Breakdown, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Romance, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design,
Pasadena, USA
Watt, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1993
A Complete Hand of One Suit, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Everything that Gave Her Pleasure Was Small and Depressed Him, Knoll Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
Group Exhibition, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, USA
How Long Can a Good Thing Last? Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA
Kurswechsel, Michael Klein, Inc. at Transart Exhibitions, Cologne, Germany

1992
Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
The Language of Flowers, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Once Removed, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA

1991
Different Thinking, Galerie Ghislave, Paris, France
From the Train, Michael Klein, Inc., New York, USA
Home for June, Home for Contemporary Theater and Art, New York, USA
There’s no There, There, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
Recent Releases, Freeman Editions, Los Angeles, USA
State of Things, Galerie Ghislave, Paris, France
Western Agenda, Artists Space, New York, USA

1990
Preview, Michael Klein, Inc., New York, USA
Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1989
Containment, XS Gallery, Western Nevada College, Carson City, Nevada, USA

1988
Re: Placement, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

1987
Group Exhibition, Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Public works

2017-2021
Guide Rails, WIELS, Brussels

2017
“Obelsik of Tutankhamun” Breslauer Platz, Cologne, Germany

2016
“Donkey’s Way” Sonnenhausplatz, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2002
Arena, Salford, England

2010
Obelisk, Emscherkanal, Essen, Germany
Delicate Arch,Duisburg Kaiserberg (Temporary)

2011
Mae West, Munich, Germany

2014
Bells and Whistles
The New School, New York, USA

2015
Artifacts (C.W.D.), PS 315Q, Queens

 

Selected Performances

2023-2025
Momentum, Dia Beacon, New York

2023
Momentum Manifesto, Dia Beacon, New York

2019
Bodies and Structure / Arena - Alexandra Waierstall & Rita McBride, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf

2015
Eigentlich 12x Alissa (with Discoteca Flaming Star), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany

2013
La Storia Di Havy, Guardiola Contemporanea, Piraino, Sicily, Italy

2011
Spot (with Klasse McBride, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), Galerie Ivana de Gavardie, Paris, France

2008
Bart’s Books at Curating the Library, De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium
Halls (with Discoteca Flaming Star, Matthew Licht, and Glen Rubsamen), Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

2007
Hot Tamales (with Glen Rubsamen), WG at Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mutter Gina (with Discoteca Flaming Star featuring The Ways books), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Boring: An Afternoon Lesson on John Baldessari, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

2005
Rita McBride: Hello World, Atelier Amden, Switzerland

2004
Bookies Read Nachtschwester (with Klara Adam), M29 Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2003
French Kiss: Rita McBride on Rosemarie Trockel, Artists on Artists lecture series at Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA
Nachtschwester (with Klara Adam), Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany

Selected public collections

Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitâo/Cascais
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona Bundeskunstsammlung Zeitgenössischer Kunst, Bonn
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Niedersâchsische Sparkassenstiftung, Hannover
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
New York City Department of Education
New York Public Library
Queens Museum of Art, New York
Whitney Museum, New York
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
FRAC I?le-de-France, Paris, France
Museu de Serralves, Porto
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
Wake Forest University Collection, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Kunstmuseum Winterthur
Kunsthaus Zürich