RITA MCBRIDE

1960 Nata a Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Vive e lavora a Düsseldorf e a Los Angeles

Formazione

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

Premi e Residenze

2021-2023
Premio Lee Krasner, Fondazione Pollock-Krasner

2003-oggi
Professoressa per l'integrazione di arte e architettura, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2013-2017
Direttrice, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2002
Artist-in-Residence-Stipendium, Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg Consiglio culturale della città di Amburgo Residenza Fondazione Guggenheim Memorial
Concorso per il World Trade Center, team Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

1999-2000
Professoressa ospite, Kunstakademie di Monaco1999-2000 Residenza DAAD, Berlino

1995
Artista in residenza, Fundació Pilar í Joan Miró, Palma, Mallorca

1991-1992
Accademia Americana di Roma, Borsa di studio del Premio Roma in Arti Visive

1989
Artista in residenza, XS Gallery, Western Nevada College, Carson City, NV

 

Selezione Mostre Personali

2023-2025
Arena Momentum, Dia Beacon, New York, USA

2024
Rita McBride, leeway, Galerie Fons Welter, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi

2023-2024
Particelle, Museo Hammer, Los Angeles, USA

2021
Rita McBride, Alexandra Waierstall and Fontys Dance Academy, De Pont Museum, Paesi Bassi

2018
National Treasures | EXTENSION including Rita McBride, Clages, Colonia, Germania

2017
Rita McBride: Explorer, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Bruxelles, Belgio
Rita McBride: Particulates, Dia:Chelsea, New York, NY, USA
Rita McBride, Leitplanken, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlino, Germania

2016
Clavis, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
Gesellschaft: Rita McBride, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germania
Gesellschaft, Kestnergesellschaft, Annover, Germania

2015
Gesellschaft, Kestnergesellschaft, Annover, Germania
Access: Rita McBride, Alexander and Bonin Gallery, New York, USA
Gesellschaft, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germania

2014
Bad Thoughts: Collection Martijn and Jeannette Sanders: Rita McBride,Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
What Models Can Do: Rita McBride, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germania
1984?: Rita McBride, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
Pattern and Decoration: Rita McBride, Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italia
Another Place / Another Space / Together: Rita McBride, Off-und Projekträume, Leeschenhof, Düsseldorf, Germania
Public Tilt: Rita McBride, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA

2013
Civic Citations, BENVENISTE Contemporary, Madrid, Spagna
Transaccion publica Rite McBride, Museo Tamayo, Messico

2012
OFERTA PÚBLICA / PUBLIC TENDER by Rita McBride, MACBA, Barcellona, Spagna

2010
Rita McBride: Perfiles, Carreras Mugica, Bilbao, Spagna
Rita McBride: Way Out West, Clages Galerie, Colonia, Germania
Rita McBride: Previously, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Germania
Rita McBride: Profili, Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italia

2009
Rita McBride: New Markers, Tell Me Something Good (in collaborazione con Kim Schoenstadt), Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Rita McBride and Kim Schoenstadt: Tell Me Something Good, Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA
Rita McBride: Blindsided and Divided, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera

2008
Settlers, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portogallo
Rita McBride: Some Settlements, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germania
Rita McBride: Public Works, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germania
Rita McBride and Koenraad Dedobbeleer: Tight, Repeating Boredom, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon Traveled to: Kunsthalle Bern; Kunstmuseum aan Zee, Ostenda, Belgio

2007
Rita McBride: Civic Sculpture in Memoriam, Museum X, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germania
Rita McBride, Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italia
New Tribune (in collaborazione con Manuel Graf), General Public, Berlino, Germania
Rita McBride and Tony Brown: Live Feed/Slighted Curiosity, Galerie ColletPark, Parigi, Francia
Rita McBride: Mae West and the Hyperbolic Parabola, Galerie Klüser 2, Monaco, Germania
Rita McBride and Glen Rubsamen: Hyperbolic Parabola, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Monaco, Germania

2006
Rita McBride: HEX,PRO,JIG, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
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, Colonia, Germania
Rita McBride: Mae West and the Middle Managers, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
Rita McBride: No Fixed Address, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
Funkturm Fern Bar at the Spaghetti Works (in collaborazione con Glen Rubsamen), Y8, Amburgo, Germania

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

2002
Rita McBride: Servants and Slaves, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
Rita McBride: Naked Came the Stranger, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Rita McBride: Croissance Générale/General Growth, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, Francia

2001
Rita McBride: 472 New Positions, De Pont, Tilburg, Paesi Bassi
Rita McBride: White Elephant and Albatrosses, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Rita McBride: Machines, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera

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

1999
Rita McBride Arena & To Be Announced, Kunstverein München, Monaco, Germania
Rita McBride: Aloof and Incidental, Annemarie Verna Galerie and Mai 36 Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
Rita McBride: National Chain, Galerie Deux, Tokyo, Giappone
Rita McBride: Berlino, Germania Lietzensee (in collaborazione con Glen Rubsamen), Konditorei Kammann, Berlino, Germania

1997
Rita McBride: The Donkey’s Way and Piggybackback (in collaborazione conCatherine Opie and Lawrence Weiner), Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portogallo
Rita McBride: Hyperinclusion, OSMOS, Berlino, Germania
Rita McBride, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Rita McBride: Arena & National Chain, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Olanda

1996
Rita McBride and Piggybackback (in collaborazione con Catherine Opie and Lawrence Weiner), Galerie Béla Jarzyk, Colonia, Germania

1995
Rita McBride: Gilded Carriages and The Donkey’s Way (in collaborazione con Hsin-Ming Fung) e La Concierge, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1994
Rita McBride: Fatal Egg, Ausstellungsbüro Michael Schill, Stuttgart, Germania
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, Ungheria
Rita McBride: Silent Encounters Between Two Peaks, Müterem Kiállító, Budapest, Ungheria

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, Colonia, Germania

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

 

Selezione Mostre Collettive

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

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

2023
Daily Echo Free Mirror (con Glen Rubsamen ), Mai 36 Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
In Between, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portogallo
Epiphenomena, Studio Kristin Posehn, Los Angeles, USA
Mefies-vous de la realite, Galerie Laurent Godin, Parigi, Francia

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

2021
RITA MCBRIDE & GLEN RUBSAMEN -LOS ANGELES, STATE OF MIND, Gallerie d'Italia, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Napoli, Italia
Dia: Chelsea, New York, USA
Womanology, José Ramón Prieto Collection, Museo De Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spagna

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

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

2017
Encounters, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Bury, Gran Bretagna
VARIABLE DIMENSIONS - ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTURE, MAAT | Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbona, Portogallo
Klöntal Triennale 2017, Part of a Moment, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Svizzera
Premium New Markers, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Something Stronger Than Me, Wiels, Bruxelles, Belgio
50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967 - 2017, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlino, Germania

2016
Liverpool Biennial 2016, Liverpool, Gran Bretagna
30th Anniversary, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco Napoli, Italia
EVERYTHING ARCHITECTURE, Office Kersten Geers and David van Severen BOZAR, Bruxelles, Belgio
Mary und der Vulkan. Eine meteorolische Phantasmagorie, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germania

2015
Display Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Gran Bretagna
Le Corbusier dans l’art contemporain, Maison La Roche, Parigi, Francia

2014
Bad Thoughts: Collection Martijn and Jeannette Sanders,Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
What Models Can Do, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germania
1984?,Mai 36 Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
Another Place / Another Space / Together, Off-und Projekträume in Düsseldof, Germania
Leeschenhof, Düsseldorf, Germania

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, Germania
Lonelyfingers: Konversationsstücke, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germania
Some Like It Hard: Sculptures in Bronze, dh artworks, Düsseldorf, Germania
Serralves Collection: Recent Works, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portogallo
IHRE GESCHICHTE(N), Bonner Kunstverein und Artothek, Bonn stadium, Arc en rêve centre d'architecture, Bordeaux, Francia
EMSCHERKUNST, 2013, Ruhr metropolis
Nenn mich nicht Stadt! Kunstmuseum St, Gallen, Svizzera

2012
Tomorrow Was Already Here, Museo Tamayo, México, D.F; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monerrey, Messico
INTERVAL, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portogallo
Community, BENVENISTE Contemporary, Madrid, Spagna
RUNDE 1, dh artworks GbR, Düsseldorf, Germania
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, Paesi Bassi
Catch Sight Screening, Clages Galerie, Colonia, Germania
Specific Collisions, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, , Germania
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, Francia
Local Host, Internationale Künstler in/aus NRW, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germania

2010
Art First, Museo Archeologico, Bologna, Italia
Und/vor und zurück, Nach/rechts und zurück, Schwing/weit vor, zurück, Galerie Kamm, Berlino, Germania
Graphikedition der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2009, Künstlerverein
Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germania
Look Up! Natural Porto Art Show, Lugares de Incerteza, Palacete Pinto Leite, Porto, Portogallo
In Good Faith, Galerie M29 Richter und Brückner, Colonia, Germania
Memories of the Future, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Aber Schwarz ist keine Farbe, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germania
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, Lisbona, Portogallo
Mona Hatoum, Stefan Kürten, and Rita McBride, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Schöner Wohnen, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germania

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

2008
One Night Stand, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlino, Germania,
Parcours interdit, Malkastenpark, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germania
Second Nature, Galerie de l’Indépendance, Dexia Banque International, Lussemburgo Traveled to: Centre artistique et culturel, Chamarande, Francia
Zidovi na Ulici/Walls in the Street, Musej savramene umetnosti Beograd, Belgrado
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, Zurigo, Svizzera, Part II: Brooke Alexander, New York, USA
Rita McBride, Cornelia Parker, Eva Rothschild, Jessica Stockholder, Carreras Mugica, Bilbao, Spagna
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, Artspeak, Vancouver, Traveled to: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, Spagna; P,S,1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
In Serie, Johan Deumans, Harlem, USA
Ästhetische Komplexe, Kunstverein Augsburg, Germania
Zeitblick: Ankäufe der Sammlung Zeitgenössische Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1998–2008, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlino, Germania
+ de réalité, Galerie de l’École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Francia
Work from the De Vleeshal Collection 01, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Paesi Bassi
Jahresausstellung: Kunst aus Neuss, Kulturforum Alte Post, Neuss, Germania

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

2006
Plane/Figure: Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Svizzera
Neue Kunst in alten Gärten, Gehrden-Lenthe, Germania
Re: Location, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Classe Preferente, Galeria Graça Brandão, Porto, Portogallo
Cities, Galerie Skopia, Ginevra, Svizzera
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, Germania
Ergens/Somewhere, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Anversa, Belgio
Transformation: Aus eigener Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Dedica, Palazzo delle Arti, Napoli, Italia
Das letzte Wort in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germania
Espacio Interior, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spagna
Réception, Musée municipal Robert Dubois-Corneau, Brunoy, Francia
Étranges mécaniques Domaine de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, Francia
Glass: Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

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

2004
Sommerausstellung, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
Raum für Raum, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germania
100 Artists See God, Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, Traveled 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, Colonia, Germania
Für die Konstrtion des Unmöglichen, Europäische Kunsthalle, Colonia, Germania
Eric Glavin, Robin Merkisch, Rita McBride, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf, Germania
Wildlife, Neuss, Germania
The Gallery Selects, , , , Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
100 Mona Lisa valent mieux qu’une, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Parigi, Francia
Close by: Time Space Architecture, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
Mengenbüro, Changing Room, Stirling, Scozia
M29 Travel, Galerie M29, Colonia, Germania
Durchleuchtet: Dialog mit der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Bookies, Galerie M29, Colonia, Germania
Generations on the Move, Viper International, Basilea, Svizzera
De werkelijkheid, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Paesi Bassi

2003
Micro-Utopias, Bienal de Valencia, Spagna
Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Sommerausstellung, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
+ ou – 5, 10, 15, 20—20 Ans d’une Collection, Le Plateau, FRAC Île-de-France, Parigi, Francia
Wildlife, Neuss, Germania
Der (sich) produzierende Mensch, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Auto-nom, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germania
Group Effect, Galerie Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Colonia, Germania
What Am I Doing Here? Esso Gallery, New York, USA
Artranspennine03, Transpennine region, Gran Bretagna
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, Monaco, Germania
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, Berlino, Germania
Sculpture, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Sommerpalast, Neuss, Germania
Something We Talked About, Brooke Alexander, Inc.; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Network, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
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, Germania
Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, USA
Measure/Mass, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera
Funktional-Fiktional, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germania

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

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
Jubiläumsaustellung: 30 Jahre Annemarie Verna Galerie, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurigo, Svizzera

1998
Corpos em Trânsito, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portogallo
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, Australia
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, Monaco, Svizzera
The Bare Wall! Michael Klein Gallery, New York, USA

1995
Call it Sleep, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Paesi Bassi
Critical Distance: Between Art and Architecture, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, USA
Tu parles, j’écoute, Galerie Anne de Villepoix; Société Jet Lag K., Parigi, Francia
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, Paesi Bassi

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, Ungheria
Group Exhibition, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, USA
How Long Can a Good Thing Last? Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA
Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA
Kurswechsel, Michael Klein, Inc. at Transart Exhibitions, Colonia, Germania

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

1991
Different Thinking, Galerie Ghislave, Parigi, Francia
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, Parigi, Francia
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

1988
Re: Placement, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, USA

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

 

Opere pubbliche

2017-2021
Guide Rails, WIELS, Bruxelles, Belgio

2017
“Obelsik of Tutankhamun” Breslauer Platz, Colonia, Germania

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

2002
Arena, Salford, Gran Bretagna

2010
Obelisk, Emscherkanal, Essen, Germania
Delicate Arch, Duisburg Kaiserberg (Temporanea)

2011
Mae West, Monaco, Germania

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

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

Performances

2023-2025
Momentum, Dia Beacon, New York, USA

2023
Momentum Manifesto, Dia Beacon, New York, USA

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

2015
Eigentlich 12x Alissa (con Discoteca Flaming Star), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germania

2013
La Storia Di Havy, Guardiola Contemporanea, Piraino, Sicilia, Italia

2011
Spot (con Klasse McBride, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), Galerie Ivana de Gavardie, Parigi, Francia

2008
Bart’s Books at Curating the Library, De Singel, Anversa, Belgio
Halls (con Discoteca Flaming Star, Matthew Licht e Glen Rubsamen), Kunsthalle Berna, Svizzera

2007
Hot Tamales (con Glen Rubsamen), WG at Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germania
Mutter Gina (con 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, Germania

2005
Rita McBride: Hello World, Atelier Amden, Svizzera

2004
Bookies Read Nachtschwester (con Klara Adam), M29 Galerie, Colonia, Germania

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

Collezioni pubbliche selezionate

Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitâo/Cascais
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcellona Bundeskunstsammlung Zeitgenössischer Kunst, Bonn, Germania
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, Francia
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Hannover, Germania
Sparkassenstiftung, Hannover, Germania
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Paesi Bassi
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germania
New York City Department of Education, USA
New York Public Library, USA
Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Whitney Museum, New York, USA
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germania
FRAC Île-de-Francia, Parigi, Francia
Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portogallo
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Svizzera
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, Francia
Wake Forest University Collection, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Svizzera
Kunsthaus Zurigo, Svizzera