ARTIST PROFILE

Rita Leduc

  • United States (b. 1985 in Trenton)
  • Currently in Brooklyn, United States.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015

  • C L O S E T, This Friday or Next Friday, Brooklyn, United States.
  • Push / Pull (with Patricia Brace), Public Address Gallery, Brooklyn, United States.
  • To the Waters and the Wild, String Room Gallery at Wells College, Aurora, United States.

2014

  • I Like You Better Now (with Patricia Brace), Hi-Temp Fabrication, Buffalo, United States.

2013

  • The Field, Tower Hill School, Wilmington, United States.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

  • Sir Cuts A Lot, Fastnet, Brooklyn, United States.

2015

  • TANABATA, Public Address Gallery, Brooklyn, United States.
  • --------, No Holds Barred, Manhattan, United States.
  • BRURAL: Skin of Liberty (Multivariate Structures), Okno Gallery, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation.
  • Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Art, Nizhny Tagil, Russian Federation.
  • Embodied Place: Observations and Notations, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, United States.
  • BRURAL: Skin of Liberty (Multivariate Structures), Project 59, Brooklyn, United States.

2014

  • BCIJPG Likes You Better Now, Hi-Temp Fabrication, Brooklyn, United States.
  • The Dam Show, Reservoir Art Space, Brooklyn, United States.

2013

  • AFTH, Vanderbilt Republic, Brooklyn, United States.
  • Collaborations, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, United States.
  • SUPERNOVA Performance Art Festival, The Pink Line Project and Rosslyn BID, Rosslyn, United States.
  • Dot Your T’s and Cross Your Eyes, Bay Ridge SAW, Brooklyn, United States.

2012

  • Fresh Meat / Young Blood, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Asbury Park, United States.
  • Grouper, Gary Snyder Project Space, Manhattan, United States.
  • Deep Cover, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, United States.

2011

  • Welcome Back, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, United States.
  • VaVaVaVOOM, Greene County Council for the Arts, Catskill, United States.
  • College Art Association NY Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Galleries, Manhattan, United States.
  • One Mark to the Next, Drift Station, Lincoln, United States.
  • Progression, Collaborative Arts, New Brunswick, United States.

2010

  • You Are Here I Am, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, United States.
  • MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States.
  • Midnite Snacks, Pop Up, Chicago, United States.

2009

  • Center for Holocaust, Human Rights, and Genocide, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, United States.

2008

  • Blanche Ames National Juried Exhibition, Ames Mansion, North Easton, United States.

PROGRAMS

2016

  • This Friday or Next Friday Open Call, Juror, This Friday or Next Friday, Brooklyn, United States. Juror.

2015

  • Lecture, Visiting Artist, Union County College, Cranford, United States. Artist.
  • Public Art Dialogue, Juror, virtual, New York, United States. Juror.
  • ApexArt, Juror, virtual, New York, United States. Juror.
  • Lecture, Visiting Artist, Fordham University, Manhattan, United States. Artist / presenter.
  • NYC Creative Salon, Panel Host, Manhattan, Manhattan, United States. Host and Moderator.
  • NYC Creative Salon, Panelist, Manhattan, Manhattan, United States. Artist / panelist.

2014

  • BCIJPG Likes You Better Now, Project, Hi-Temp Fabrication, Buffalo, United States. Artist, collab. with Patricia Brace and BCIJPG.
    Contact improv dance troupe, BCIJPG, choreographed a performance based around Patricia Brace and my installation, "I Like You Better Now." Brace and I participated.
  • Bay Ridge SAW, Juror, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, United States. Juror.
  • GROUNDWORK, Project, Various Locations, Various Locations, United States. Creator and Co-Founder.
    A creative retreat born out of frustration for boundaries between disciplines, Groundwork offers a weekend-long venture for a curated group of cross-disciplinary active minds. As a way of celebrating process as product, 6 attendees workshop projects in their nascent phases, utilizing their housemates as active participants.

2013

  • Bay Ridge SAW Strategic Planning Council, Invited Guest, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, United States. Invited Guest.
  • Drawing, Presentation, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States. Artist / presenter.
  • Step by Step, Presentation, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States. Artist / presenter.
  • The Art Room, Workshop, The Art Room, Brooklyn, United States. Artist / presenter.
  • Dot Your T's and Cross Your Eyes, Project, Various Locations, Various Locations, United States. Artist, collab. with Patricia Brace.

2012

  • You Have Slept for Millions and Millions of Years, Project, Various Locations, Various Locations, United States. Artist.
    Virtual Social Project
  • Making Sense of What We Sense, Workshop, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, United States. Artist / presenter.

LOCATION

  • Born 1985 in Trenton, United States.
  • Lives and works in Brooklyn, United States.

EDUCATION

  • 2010 - 2012
    Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
    Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art
  • 2009 - 2010
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States
    Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Drawing
  • 2004 - 2007
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
    Bachelor of Art in Fine Art

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2015
    Wells College Scholar-In-Residence
    Wells College, Aurora, United States
  • 2010
    Peter Stroud Scholarship
    Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
  • 2009
    Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
    Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, United States
  • 2007
    Kelly Senior Thesis Grant
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
  • 2006
    Kelly Family Travel Grant
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
  • 2006
    Rachofsky Scholarship
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
  • 2006
    Lawrence Shprintz Fine Arts Prize
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
  • 2005
    Rachofsky Scholarship
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States

RESIDENCIES

  • 2016
    Tofte Lake Center Emerging Artist Program, Tofte Lake Center, Ely, United States
  • 2015
    Wells College Scholar-in-Residence, Wells College, Aurora, United States
  • 2009
    Vermont Studio Center, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, United States

COLLECTIONS

  • Wells College Art Collection, Aurora, United States
  • Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
  • Brookdale Community College Holocaust Museum, Lincroft, United States