* 1960, Des Moines, Iowa, USA

   The artist lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany

1982

BA at Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York City, New York, USA

1987

MA in Fine Arts at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Spain

1989

Artist in Residence, Carson City, Nevada, USA

     1991/92

American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts,
Rome, Italy

1995

Artist in Residence, Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miro a Mallorca, Palma, Spain

1999

DAAD scholarship, Berlin, Germany

2002

World Trade Center Competition, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill team

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Cultural Board of the City of Hamburg Residency, Germany

2010

RITA MCBRIDE: WAY OUT SOUTH. MAE WEST SUPERSTORE
Solo show

2007

RITA MCBRIDE: MAE WEST AND THE HYPERBOLIC PARABOLA

Solo show

2007

RITA MCBRIDE/GLEN RUBSAMEN: HYBERBOLIC PARABOLA
Group show

2006

PLEASE LET MY AFFECTIONS LEAD ME INTO DANGER

Group show

2009

KOENRAAD DEDOBELEER AND RITA MCBRIDE: PRIVAT
Kunstmuseum aan Zee, Ostende, Netherlands

2008

RITA MCBRIDE: PUBLIC WORKS
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2007

RITA MCBRIDE: CIVIC SCULPTURE IN MEMORIAM

Museum X, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2004

RITA MCBRIDE: EXHIBITION
The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, USA

2002

NAKED CAME THE STRANGER
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

2000

RITA MCBRIDE. WORK EXHIBITION
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany

1999

RITA MCBRIDE & TO BE ANNOUNCED
Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany

1997

ARENA & NATIONAL CHAIN
Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1993

PARTS
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA