Rita
Barros lives in New York City since
1980 and teaches Photography at NYU. She has a MA in Art in Media: Studio Art from New
York University/International Center of Photography, and a
B.A., majoring in Photography from SUNY (State University of New
York).
Her portraits and cityscapes have been published in many European
and American magazines, including New York Times, New York Magazine,
Newsweek, the Guardian, the Atlantic, Nouvel Observateur, Elle, Vogue, Expresso,
El Mundo, La Vanguardia, Expresso, Publico, Marie Claire, Le Monde.
Her first group show was in 1987 (PS 1 Contemporary Arts Center, in NY), and she has had several solo shows since presenting her Chelsea Hotel portraits at Encontros de Coimbra in 1992. Photos from her acclaimed book Fifteen
Years: Chelsea Hotel were shown in Havana (Wilfredo Lam Contemporary
Art Museum), in Portugal (Encontros de Coimbra, Galeria 111, Museu
da Água), in Brazil (São Paulo Contemporary Art Museum
and Secretaria do Estado da Cultura, Curitiba), in Milano (Flash
Art Fair), in Paris (Paris Photo 2010), and in Salerno, at Palazzo Fruscione (2021).
Her
exhibition Room 1008 a homage to the room where 2001: A
Space Odyssey was written and where she lives - was presented as part of 2001
Oporto European Capital of Culture, Portugal, in São Paulo
Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil and Briggs & Robinson Gallery
in New York. One Year Later at the Portuguese Center of Photography in Oporto in 2002 recorded the events of 9/11. Her work was also part of Reactions at Exit Art,
in NY. Presence of Absence was selected for the exhibition Descubrimientos (Emerging
Talents) of Photo Espana 07, at the Museo de Arte Comtemporanea,
Madrid. It was shown at Galeria Pente 10 in Lisbon, at
Paris Photo 09 and at the Royal Academy Summer Show 2015, in London.
Barros
was included in Au Feminin, (a history of women photographers
since 1850) curated by Jorge Calado, at Centre Culturel Calouste
Gulbenkian, Paris, 2009.
Her
series 3x3 was exhibited at Galeria Pente 10 in Lisbon,
at Paris Photo 2010 and was selected by critic, Vince Aletti for
the exhibition, Photography Now 2011, at the Center for
Photography at Woodstock, New York.
Barros' work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition "BoHemia: Life and Death at the Chelsea Hotel" curated by Jorge Calado at Biblioteca FCT/UNL, Monte da Caparica, Portugal. This exhibition was part of the 8th Arts Festival in Coimbra, Portugal with the theme "Pioneers". A selection was on view at the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin.
A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in 2002, Rita Barros is represented in several Portuguese and international art collections.
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