Rita Barros

Rita Barros (Lisbon) has lived in New York since 1980 and teaches photography at NYU. She has an MA in Media Art: Studio Art from NYU/International Center of Photography and a B.A. with a specialisation in Photography from the State University of New York. His first group exhibition was in 1987, at the PS 1 Contemporary Arts Centre (NY), and she has had several solo exhibitions since 1992, when she presented her portraits of the Chelsea Hotel at Encontros de Coimbra. The photographs in her book Fifteen Years: Chelsea Hotel have been shown in Havana (Wilfredo Lam Museum of Contemporary Art), Portugal (Encontros de Coimbra, Galeria 111, Museu da Água), Brazil (São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art and State Department of Culture, Curitiba), Milan (Flash Art Fair), Paris (Paris Photo 2010) and Salerno, at Palazzo Fruscione (2021).Barros was included in Au Feminin (a history of women photographers since 1850), at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, 2009.Her 3x3 series was exhibited at Galeria Pente 10 in Lisbon, at Paris Photo 2010 and was selected by critic Vince Aletti for the exhibition Recipient of a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2002, Rita Barros is represented in several Portuguese and international art collections.