Rita Ackermann
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BiographyMama 5, 2019
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.
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Works
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Rita AckermannMama 5, 2019Oil, acrylic, grease pencil and graphite on canvas75 x 64 in (190.5 x 162.6 cm) -
Rita AckermannMama 6, 2019Oil, pigment, grease pencil, charcoal and graphite on canvas75 x 65 in (190.5 x 165.1 cm)
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Rita AckermannNo Title, 2018Oil and grease pencil on aged paper8.25 x 11.75 in (21 x 29.8 cm)
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Rita AckermannUntitled, 2016Pencil and oil on paper11.75 x 8.25 in (29.8 x 21 cm)
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Rita AckermannFire By Days XIV, 2011Enamel, pigment, oil and crayon on paper
44 x 30 in (111.8 x 76.2 cm) -
Rita AckermannFire By Days XV, 2011Enamel, pigment, oil and crayon on paper
44 x 30 in (111.8 x 76.2 cm) -
Rita AckermannFire By Days XXXIV, 2011Enamel, pigment, oil and crayon on paper45 x 30.5 in (114.3 x 77.5 cm)
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Rita AckermannFire By Days XXXV, 2011Enamel, pigment, oil and crayon on paper46 x 30.5 in (116.8 x 77.5 cm)
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Exhibitions
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Rita Ackermann
Tennis Elbow 37 27 April – 3 May 2019 New YorkRead more -
Bendix Harms, Rita Ackermann, Spencer Sweeney, Nikki Maloof, Alex Becerra, Dan McCarthy, Tyson Reeder, Bill Saylor ...
The Great Figure Two 29 June – 7 August 2016 New York -
Rita Ackermann
Fire By Days 2 May – 3 June 2012 New YorkRead more -
Rita Ackermann
Warfilms 5 – 10 April 2011 New York -
Darren Bader, Harmony Korine, Rita Ackermann, Spencer Sweeney, Chris Johanson, Kon Trubkovich, Leigh Johnson, Jack Webb
Salad Days 21 October – 15 December 2010 New York
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