Rita Ackermann

  • Biography
    View works. Rita Ackermann, Mama 5, 2019
    Mama 5, 2019
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    Rita Ackermann was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1968. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary and The New York Studio School of Painting in New York, New York. 

    Ackermann's recent solo and group exhibitions include "Rita Ackermann. Doubles" at Hauser & Wirth in Paris, France (2025); "Small Format Painting" at 56 Henry in New York, New York (2025); "Manna Rain" at Fondazione Iris in Teverina, Italy (2024); "Rita Ackermann. Splits" at Hauser & Wirth in New York, New York (2024); "ZERO IN" at The Maria Leuff Foundation in Columbia County, New York (2024); "Yours Truly" at Nahmad Contemporary in New York, New York (2024); "Rita Ackermann. Hidden" at MASI Lugano in Lugano, Switzerland (2023); "Rita Ackermann. Vertical Vanish" at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, California (2023); "Two Pieces in the Shape of a Pear" at Hauser & Wirth in Southampton, New York (2023); "Ugly Painting" at Nahmad Contemporary in New York, New York (2023); "Escape" at Hauser & Wirth in Southampton, New York (2023); "The Mother and the Weaver: Works from the Ursula Hauser Collection" at The Foundling Museum in London, United Kingdom (2023); "ABSTRACTION: The Genesis and Evolution of Abstract Painting Cézanne, Fauvism, Cubism and on to Today" at Artizon Museum in Tokyo, Japan (2023); "Works on Paper: 100 Years" at Amanita in New York, New York, (2023); "Women in Abstraction" at LVH Art in Hong Kong (2023); "Rita Ackermann. Mama '21" at Hauser & Wirth in Monaco (2021); and "Rita Ackermann & Andro Wekua: Chapter 4" at Fergus McCaffrey in Tokyo, Japan (2021). 

    Work by Ackermann is held in public collections including the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas,Texas; Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado; The Long Museum in West Bund, China; The Maria Leuff Foundation in New York, New York; Marieluise Hessel Foundation in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Museum Het Nieuwe Domein in Sittard, Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami in Miami, Florida; Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California; Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, California; Ståhl Collection in Norrköping, Sweden; and The Zabludowicz Collection in London, United Kingdom.

    Rita Ackermann lives and works in New York, New York. 

  • Works
    • Rita Ackermann, Mama 5, 2019
      Rita Ackermann
      Mama 5, 2019
      Oil, acrylic, grease pencil and graphite on canvas
      75 x 64 in (190.5 x 162.6 cm)
    • Rita Ackermann, Mama 6, 2019
      Rita Ackermann
      Mama 6, 2019
      Oil, pigment, grease pencil, charcoal and graphite on canvas
      75 x 65 in (190.5 x 165.1 cm)
    • Rita Ackermann, No Title, 2018
      Rita Ackermann
      No Title, 2018
      Oil and grease pencil on aged paper
      8.25 x 11.75 in (21 x 29.8 cm)
    • Rita Ackermann, Untitled, 2016
      Rita Ackermann
      Untitled, 2016
      Pencil and oil on paper
      11.75 x 8.25 in (29.8 x 21 cm)
    • Rita Ackermann, Fire By Days XIV, 2011
      Rita Ackermann
      Fire By Days XIV, 2011
      Enamel, pigment, oil and crayon on paper
      44 x 30 in (111.8 x 76.2 cm)
    • Rita Ackermann, Fire By Days XV, 2011
      Rita Ackermann
      Fire By Days XV, 2011
      Enamel, pigment, oil and crayon on paper
      44 x 30 in (111.8 x 76.2 cm)
    • Rita Ackermann, Fire By Days XXXIV, 2011
      Rita Ackermann
      Fire By Days XXXIV, 2011
      Enamel, pigment, oil and crayon on paper
      45 x 30.5 in (114.3 x 77.5 cm)
    • Rita Ackermann, Fire By Days XXXV, 2011
      Rita Ackermann
      Fire By Days XXXV, 2011
      Enamel, pigment, oil and crayon on paper
      46 x 30.5 in (116.8 x 77.5 cm)
  • Exhibitions