Rita Ackermann - Biography

Born in Budapest, Hungary, 1968
Lives and works in New York, NY

EDUCATION
1989-92
Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1992-93
The New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture (Hanes Foundation) New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBTIONS

2007
HOTEL, London, U.K., October 9 - November 11

2006
Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, "Court Toujours," May 27 - June 15

2005
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, "Collage 1993-2005," September 9 - October 15
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, "Jump On Me," April 29 - July 3

2003
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, "Listen to the Fool's Reproach,"
December 13 - January 17, 2004
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland, "Memoires d'Une Jeune Fille Rouge,"
May 23 - July 26
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France, "Ördögök," January 11 - February 22

2002
Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Holland, "Snowfall in August," June 2 - August 18 (catalogue)

2001
The Deep Gallery, Paris, France, "Style Show for the Levitation of the Strong American Women," June 28 - July 28
Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, "the only way to get to my vagina is through Jesus!," March 10 - April 12

2000
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, "Lost and Found Notes,"
September 2 - October 15
Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria, "God's Little Helpers," May 17 - July 17, 2007
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, "Corvette," March 10 - April 15

1999
Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Revelation," September 3 - October 11
Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, NY, with Ana Axpe, January 21 - March 6

1998
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece, June - September
Bartok 32 Galeria, Budapest, Hungary, "Just Do Whatever You Want," March 13 - April 5
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, "Songs of Sirens," January 9 - February 7

1997
Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, "The Good, The Bad and The Evil," May - June

1996
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, "If Anyone Hurts My Brother, I'll Kill That…,"
January 19 - February 24

1995
Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, "The Birth of Tragedy,"
September 1 - September 30
Interim Art, London, U.K., "out of the blue into the black," June 1 - July 15
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece, "It Doesn't Matter if You Love Me or Not…I'll Be Always There For You…," February 11 - March 25

1994
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, "After Dinner I'm Gonna Shoot You But Before I'll Take a Shower," July 8 - August 12

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, '2008 Whitney Biennial',
March 6 - June, curated by Donna De Salvo, Henriette Huldisch,, and Shamim M. Momin (catalogue) forthcoming

2007
Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, "Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection," curated by Matthew Higgs, October 20 - February 3
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, "Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967," curated by Dominic Molon, September 29 -January 27, 2008 (catalogue)
Traveled to: MoCA Miami, Miami, FL, May 31 - September 8, 2008
Peres Projects, Athens, Greece, "Beyond Zero," September 8 - October 13
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, "Fit to Print," July 31 - September 15
Mireille Mosler, Ltd, New York, NY, "Tease," June 22 - July 28
ZKM-KARLSRHUE, Germany, "Between Two Deaths," May 11 - July 15 (catalogue)
Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA, "Other Scenes," curated by Aaron Rose, April 21 - May 19 (catalogue)

2006
IVAM, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain, "VAC colección valencia arte Contemporáneo," December 21 - February 11, 2007 (catalogue)
Stephan Haller Gallery, New York, NY, "A Woman on Paper," December 16 - January 16, 2007
Haswellediger & Co. Gallery, New York, NY, "Flesh Records," October 27 - December 2
Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, "The Unhumane Society," September 15 - October 15
Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, "Denial is a River," September 10 - November 18
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, "Dereconstruction," curated by Matthew Higgs,
June 30 - August 18 (catalogue)
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY, "Mid-Life Crisis," curated by Tara Subkoff and Ivana
Salander, June 2 -June 23
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, "Die Jugend von Heite / Youth of Today," April 7 - June 15 Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, "Mixed Emotions," February 18 - May 14 (catalogue)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, "Dark," curated by Jan Grosfeld and Rein Wolfs, February 18 - April 17 (catalogue)
Migrosmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, "While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body," January 21 - March 26

2005
Canada, LLC, New York, NY, "I Throw Herring to the Dog," curated by Lillian Ludlow and Marcella
Mullins, June 24 - July 31
New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, New York, NY, "The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School," April 20 - May 7

2004
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, "What's New," curated by Jhim Lamoree, November 27 - January 15 2005
Boutique Celine, Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France, "Les Années Fatales," October 7- November 27
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria, "Next Generation: Heavenly Creatures," July 22 - August 31 (catalogue)
Creative Time in conjunction with a public project for Coney Island redevelopment, Coney Island,
NY, "The Dreamland Artist Club," curated by Peter Eleey, June 12 - September 6
Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland, "Strategies of Desire," May 28 - July 18
Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France, "Out of Bounds," January 30 - March 28

2003
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, "After Matisse Picasso,"
February 16 - May 19

2002
Urban Experience, New York, NY, "The Woman Show," July 17 - August 27
A Project by Dornbracht, New York, NY, "Statements (six)," May 20 - May 26 (book)
Travels to: Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany, October 30 - November 3
Urban Experience, New York, NY, "It's Official," April 12 - May 24
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, "Personalische Plans/Personal Plans - The drawing - from life plan to world projection," March 23 - May 12

2001
Urban Experience, New York, NY, "Rennaisance 2001," December 14 - February 31, 2002
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France, "Christmas Show," December 8 - January 19, 2002
White Box, New York, NY, "Prodigal Prodigy," curated by Theo Tegelaers, September 6 - October 13 (catalogue)

2000
CRP, Brooklyn, NY, "Superpredators," curated by José Freire, October 13 - December 11
Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, "Presumed Innocent," curated by Stephanie Moisdon and Marie-Laure Bernadac, June 8 - October 1 (catalogue)
Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, "Elysian Fields," curated by Purple Institute, May 24 - July 24 (catalogue)
MU Art Foundation, De Witte Dame, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, "Kim's Bedroom," curated by Kim Gordon, March 17 - April 24 (catalogue)
Travels to: Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Kim's Bedroom," August 3 - September 3

1999 American Fine Arts, New York, NY, "Dope," December 22 - January 31, 2000
Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary, "Young and Serious," August 3 - August 29 (catalogue)
Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, NY, "Too Wide Enough," April 3 - May 5
Espace des Arts, Calon-sur-Saone, France, "Janviers en Bourgogne 1999, XN," curated by Stephanie Moisdon Tremblay, Nicholas Trembley and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, January 23 - April 4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from The Logan Collection," curated by Daniela Salvinioni, January 9 - April 20

1998
Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY, "Transfiguration," curated by Darcey Steinke, November 21 - December 23 Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York, "More Fake, More Real, Ever Closer," curated by Robert Evren, November 8 - January 26, 1999 (catalogue)
Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany, "I Love New York: Crossover der aktuellen Kunst," November 6 - February 1, 1999 (catalogue)
Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, "Auf der Spur - Kunst der 90er Jahre Im Spiegel Von Schweizer Sammlungen," October 31 - December 27
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France, "Dessins," April 25 - May 30
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland, "Portrait - Human Figure," March 28 - May 9

1997
Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz/Tirol, Austria, "Ruhm und Ehre," October 8 - November 16
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, "Display - International Exhibition of Painting," September - October (catalogue)
Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria, "Angel, Angel," curated by Cathrin Pilcher, June 10 - September 7
Travels to: Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 23 - January 11, 1998 (catalogue)
Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg, Germany, "Some Kind of Heaven," curated by Sadie Coles and Eva Meyer Stoller, February 20 - April 30 (catalogue)
Travels to: South London Gallery, London, England, June 3 - July 13
John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southhampton, U.K., August 12 - October 4
Corner House, Manchester, U.K., November 22 - December 21
Casey Kaplan, New York, NY "The Name of the Place," curated by Laurie Simmons, January 10 - February 8

1996
Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, "'Fucking Biscuits' and other drawings,"
September 7 - October 12
Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich, Germany, "The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art,"
April 26 - June 1
White Columns, New York, NY, "Sugar Mountain," curated by Paul Ha and Andrea Scott, March 29 - May 12

1995
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia, and First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia, "Culture Is Our Business," curated by Aaron Rose, December 28 - January 10, 1996
Simultaneous exhibition of the same title: First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, "Hard Comforts," August 30 - October 20 (catalogue)
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, "Currents '95: Familiar Places," curated by Lia Gangitano and Milena Kalinovska, July 26 - October 1
Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, France, "Purple 8 ½," organized by Purple Prose, April 29 - June 17 (documentation)
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, "Human/Nature," April 20 - May 18
White Columns, New York, NY, Auction Benefit, February 17 - March 4

1994
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, "Promising Suspects,"
October 2 - January 8, 1995
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Windows on Broadway, New York, NY, "Who are we? What are we? Where did we come from?," September 23 - December 31
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, Benefit Exhibition / Auction, April
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY, (One night show), curated by David Greenberg and Diego Cortez, March
White Columns, New York , NY, "Splat Figures," curated by Bill Arning, January

1993
Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, NY, December
Close-up, London, U.K., "Lucky Kunst," November

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007 White columns, New York, NY, "The Perfect Man," January 9 - February 10
2004 Participant Inc, New York, NY, "Indigestible Correctness I," curated with Lizzi Bougatsos, April 9 - May 9

ARTIST BOOKS AND PROJECTS
2006 "Flesh Records", A Limited Edition CD made in conjunction with an exhibition at Haswelldiger & Co. New York, NY, October 27 - December 2