1982

BA, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY

1987

MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

1989

Artist in Residence, Carson City, NV

1991-92

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

1995

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

1999

DAAD Residency, Berlin

2002

World Trade Center Competition, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill team

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Cultural Board of the City of Hamburg Residency

The artist lives and works in Düsseldorf.

2007

Rita McBride: Mae West and the Hyperbolic Parabola, Galerie Klüser 2, Munich,

Germany

Rita McBride: Civic Sculpture in memoriam, Museum X, Museum Abteiberg,

Mönchengladbach, Germany

Rita McBride, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

2006

HEX.PRO.JIG, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich

Double to Watch, Triple to Help, Alexander and Bonin, New York

2004

Rita McBride: Exhibition, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY

Middle Managers/Self-Storage, Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany

Mae West and the Middle Managers, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

CH-8873 Amden, one day performance at CH-8873, Amden, Switzerland

No Fixed Address, Artspeak, Vancouver, BC

2003

Vehicles and Vessels, Alexander and Bonin, New York

2002

Servants and Slaves, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

General Growth, Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne

Naked Came the Stranger, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

2001

472 New Positions, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The

Netherlands

White Elephant and Albatrosses, Alexander and Bonin, New York

Machines, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

2000

Secession Tower, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

Werkshow, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein,

Aachen, Germany

Her House with the Upstairs in it, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany

1999

National Chain, galerie deux, Tokyo, Japan

Aloof and Incidental, Annemarie Verna Galerie and Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich,

Switzerland

Rita McBride & To Be Announced, Kunstverein München, Munich (presented as

part of the ongoing Damenwahl exhibition series, Siemens Kulturprogramm),

Germany

1997

Arena & National Chain, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Rita McBride, Alexander and Bonin, New York

Hyperinclusion, OSMOS, Berlin, Germany

The Donkey's Way and Piggybackback (in collaboration with Catherine Opie and

Lawrence Weiner) Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal

1995

Gilded Carriages and The Donkey's Way and La Concierge (in collaboration with

Hsin-Ming Fung), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1994

Backsliding, sideslipping, one Great Leap and the “forbidden”, Michael Klein

Gallery, New York

Fatal Egg, Ausstellungsbuero Michael Schill, Stuttgart, Germany

1993

Wise women caught breathing, Studio Galeria, Budapest, Hungary

There would be no leaves to rake on Sunday, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

The Fat Man, The Spine, The Spineless and Thin Corners, Michael Klein Inc.,

New York

Parts, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

1990

Rita McBride: New Work, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1989

Rita McBride, Galeria Atlantica, Porto, Portugal

Men to Match My Mtns., XS Gallery, Carson City, NV

2007

Rita McBride/Glen Rubsamen: Hyperbolic Parabola, Galerie Bernd Klüser,

Munich, Germany

New Tribune, General Public, Berlin, Germany

Triennale Fellbach, Germany

Mimetic, Centre d’art de l’Yonne, Communs du Château de Tanlay, Yonne,

Bourgogne, France

Pure, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

Exit Music (for a film), Grimm/Rosenfeld Gallery, New York

2006

Plane Figure: American Art in Swiss Private Collections and from the

Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Neue Kunst in Alten Garten 2006, Gehrden-Lenthe, Germany

RE: LOCATION, Alexander and Bonin, New York

Próximas exposições, Galeria Graça Brandão, Porto 2005, Portugal

2005

Farsites/Sitios Distantes, San Diego Museum of Art; Centro Cultural Tijuana

CECUT

2004-05

raumfürraum, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

2003

Micro-Utopias, Bienal de Valencia, Spain

Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

2002

Think Big/Voir grand, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Centre for

the Arts, Montréal, Canada

2002 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

Building Structures, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

Artists Imagine Architecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Through a Sequence of Space, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany

2001

Archisculptures, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany

Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, New York

2000

Rita McBride, Julius Schulman, Adamski Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne,

Germany

HausSchau; das Haus in der Kunst, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

What if; Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design, Moderna Museet,

Stockholm, Sweden

Please Let my Affections Lead me into Danger, Galerie Bernd Klüser,

Munich, Germany

Over The Edges-The Corners of Ghent, Stedelijk Museum Actuele Kunst,

Ghent, Belgium

1999

Urban Visions: Rita McBride, Marjetica Potrc, Sophie Tottie, The Worcester Art

Museum, MA

1998

Architecture! Architecture! Architecture!, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery,

Hunter College of the City University of New York

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, Portugal

1997

Structures: Buildings in American Art, 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San

Francisco

1996

The Bare Wall, Michael Klein Gallery, New York

Büro Orange, Siemans Kultur Program, Munich, Germany

1995

25 Years, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

tu parles-j'ecoute, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, and Societe Jet LagK., Paris, France

Critical Distance: Between Art and Architecture, Neuberger Museum, SUNY,

Purchase, NY

Call it Sleep, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1994

Watt, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Romance, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design,

Pasadena, CA

Breakdown, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

1993

How Long Can a Good Thing Last, Channing Peake Gallery Santa Barbara, CA;

Santa Monica Museum, CA

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him, Knoll Galeria,

Budapest, Hungary

One Complete Hand of One Suit, Donna Beam Gallery University of Nevada, Las

Vegas

1992

Once Removed, New Langton Arts, San Francisco

The Language of Flowers, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, Italy

1991

Western Agenda, Artists Space, New York

there's no there, there, Indianapolis Museum of Art

Different Thinking, Galerie Ghislave, Paris, France

Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Preview, Michael Klein Inc., New York

1989

Containment, XS Gallery, Carson City, NV

1988

Re: Placement, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

1987

Group Show, (curated by John Baldessari), Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles