MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2001
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1991

SELECTED ONE & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2010 Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, Sunroom Project Space - Duplex.
2009 Hendershot Gallery, New York, NY, Wrinkles in Time: Rachel Bone and Rita MacDonald.
2008 Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, Rita MacDonald - tic.
2005 The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN, Project Room - Steel Tread.
1995 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, Rita MacDonald.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, The Line Unleashed.
2011 Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects, New York, NY, Interior.
2010 Homestead Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Three Rooms.
2009 Gallery Satori, New York, NY, Two Degrees of Separation.
Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY at Old Westbury, NY, The Grand.
Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, Quietly.
2008 Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY, Serial Meditations.
Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY, Text Messages.
2007 Dieu Donné, New York, NY, Per Square Foot.
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles,CA, Pillowtalk.
3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY, Public Halls Program.
2006 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, White Box’s Toy Box.
Mushroom Arts, New York, NY, Starting at the Edge.
Smack Mellon, Brooklyn,NY, Site 92.
2005 SPACES, Cleveland, OH, Multipicity.
Dieu Donné, New York, NY, Shangri-La.
The Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Projects ‘05.
Tastes Like Chicken, Brooklyn, NY, Under the Rainbow.
Naked Duck Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Ladylike.
Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, Fifteen Paces.
Baltimore Office of the Arts, Baltimore, MD, Picture Window.
projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKLMOBILE project, Bookmobile Tour throughout US and Canada.
2004 d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY, There is a Light that Never Goes Out.
Dieu Donné, New York, NY, Good Fortune.
asterisk, Brooklyn, NY, Manifesto? Art Without Consensus.
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, generations 04.
2003 HOME, Queens, NY, Contemporary Perspectives.
d.u.m.b.o. Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY, Stairwell.
Dieu Donné, New York, NY, Take Out.
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA,
  New York / New England / New Talent.
2001 Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, Synthetic Dystopia.
Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, MFA Special Projects.
2000 Eastside Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, On the Surface.
1999 Printed Matter, New York, NY, The Next World.
1996 Printed Matter, New York, NY, WSW 20th Anniversary.
Academy Art Center Gallery, University of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, Turning the Page.
1991 Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
Benson Hall Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
1990 Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Exhibition Catalogs & Periodicals
Chow, Elaine. "Virtually Real." Visual Arts Journal, New York, NY, Spring 2004, cover and pp. 13-15.
Design Annual 1998. Print Magazine, September 1998, p.306.
Design Annual 2004. Print Magazine, November/December 2004, pp. 299, 303.
Haber, John. "5.7.05 Fifteen Paces." www.haberarts.com, May 2005.
Haber, John. "Modernism's Lost Genration." www.haberarts.com, April 2008.
Kropper, Jean G., Handmade Books, Davis Publications, Worcester, MA, 1997.
McCorkle, Mery Lynn. “Travelogue 42 Plaid." www.zerodegreesart.com, 2006.
Parnass, Larry. "New Talent at Hampden Gallery." The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Amherst, MA.
  February 10, 2003.
Powhida, William. "Under the Rainbow." The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY. June 2005, p. 19.
Projects ‘05. The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, 2005.
Turning the Page, Academy Art Center Gallery, University of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, 1996.
Wells, Bonnie. "Layer Cakes, Catalog Shreds and Emerging Artists." Amherst Bulletin, Amherst, MA.
  January 31, 2003: vol 36, p. 2.

Artist Books
Family, Edition of 100, Published by Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY ,1994.

Web Projects
Artists (web) Space, artistsspace.org. Artists Space, New York, NY, March 2005.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2005 Fellowship Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson,VT.
2004 Regional Design Award (New York City), Print Magazine, New York, NY.
2001 The Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, School of Visual Arts, NY.
1998 Regional Design Award (New York City), Print Magazine, New York, NY.
1994 Artist Book Fellowship Grant, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY.
1990 Assistant Printer Fellowship, Vinylhaven Press, Vinylhaven, ME.


PERMANENT PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

2011 Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Arts for Transit Commission
Mosaics for Ave J and Ave M Stations, Brighton Line Brooklyn, NY


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
Beverly Hills Public Library, Beverly Hills, CA
Cerritos Public Library, Cerritos, CA
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
University of Delaware, Newark,DE
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Yale University Library, New Haven, CT

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