Curriculum Vitae
| MFA BFA |
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, May 1979 University of Calgary, May 1975 |
| 2020 | “the darkness is as deep as the darkness is” Installation with Audio and Electronics, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff Centre, January 31 – May 31, 2020, and September 26 – December 12, 2020 Performance WPG Banff January 31, 2020 |
| 2019 | “dig as deep as the darkness” Installation with audio and electronics Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC, July 19 – September 15, 2019 |
| 2018 | “Veins” Installation with audio, kinetics, and electronics. OBORO, Montreal, QC, April 14 – May 19, 2018 |
| 2017 | “Veins” Installation with audio, electronics. “Cul de sac” Installation. “Listen” Installation with Audio and electronics. Comox Valley Art Gallery, Comox, BC, July 14 – September 30, 2017 |
| 2016 | “Murmurations” Installation with audio, electronics.Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, September 14- October 2016 in collaboration with Graeme Patterson. |
| 2014 | “The Lion’s Share” Installation with audio, electronics, and performance. IKG, ACAD, Calgary, Alberta – October “The Lion’s Share” Kendridine Gallery, UofS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| 2013 | “The Lion’s Share” Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| 2013 | “Wilderment” Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan |
| 2012 | “The Lion’s Share” Doris McCarthy Art Gallery, UTSC, Scarborough, Ontario |
| 2011 | “The Lion’s Share” University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta |
| 2006 | “Long Haul” 7a 11d Performance Festival, Toronto, Ontario |
| 2005 | Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta “slipping by” – installation/ performance with audio and electronics. |
| 2004 | Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC “Wave Over Wave” – Audio Installation |
| 2003 | Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick “Outskirts” – Performance /Installation with audio and electronics. |
| 2002 | Sound Symposium 11, St. John’s, NFLD “Wave Over Wave” – Audio Installation |
| 2000 | St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Center, St. Norbert, Manitoba “Tower of Silence”, Performance. with audio. |
| 2000 | AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan “Shudder”, Performance with audio and electronics. |
| 1998 | Ace Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, “Shudder”, Performance. |
| 1997 | Sir Wilfred Grenfell Art Gallery, Cornerbrook, Newfoundland “Dancing on a Plate”, Installation/Performance. w/ audio and electronics. |
| 1995 | Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland “Shiver”, Installation with audio and electronics. |
| 1993 | Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta “Rita McKeough: an Excavation” & “Take it to the Teeth” |
| 1992 | The Western Front, Vancouver, BC. “In bocca al lupo – In the Mouth of the Wolf’, Performance. |
| 1991 | 17 River Street, Toronto, Ontario, November Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, April “In a bocca al lupo – In the Mouth of the Wolf”, Performance. |
| 1990 | Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, “Embrace”, Installation. |
| 1992 | The Western Front, Vancouver, BC. “In bocca al lupo – In the Mouth of the Wolf’, Performance. |
| 1989 | Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan. “Tremor”, Installation. |
| 1988 | dL Gallery, Calgary, Alberta. “Heave”, Installation. |
| 1987 | Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. “Blind Spot”, Installation. A Space, Toronto, Ontario, “An Exchange Within”, Installation. |
| 1986 | Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta. “Retaining Wall”, Installation. |
| 1985 | Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. “Afterland Plaza”, Installation Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta. |
| 1984 | Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta. “Urban Scroungers”, Installation. |
| 1983 | University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta. “Destruck”, Installation. |
| 1981 | Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta “Defunct”, Installation. |
| 1980 | Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta. “Prints” Arthur Street Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. “Sidestreet”, Installation. |
| 1979 | Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| 1978 | Rebecca Cohn Arts Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Performance. Dandelion Gallery, Calgary, Alberta |
| 1977 | “The Artificial Marsh”, Installation. |
| 2015 | “tender” – Oh Canada, Esker Foundation, Calgary January – March |
| 2014 | “H” – Mondo Monde, Faucet Media Arts Centre and Struts Gallery, Sackville, July |
| 2014 | “Alternator” – Oh Canada, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, June |
| 2012 | “Alternator” Oh Canada, MASS MOCA, North Adams, Mass. May |
| 2010 | “Wilderment” – in Timeland – Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton May-August |
| 2010 | Screen 2010, Online Exhibition for the Olympics, Winter 2010 |
| 2009 | “Alternator” Performance. ArtCity Festival. Calgary, September |
| 2009 | “Art in the Streets”, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, May |
| 2009 | GGAVMA, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario |
| 2008 | “Alternator” Sccotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario |
| 2008 | “Long Haul” Informal Architecture, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| 2007 | “Countless” Wilderness Acts, Eye Level Gallery, Nova Scotia |
| 2007 | “Long Haul” Informal Architecture, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Alberta |
| 2005 | “X”, ArtPort, AGNS Pier 22, Halifax |
| 2004 | “Traces”, with David Hoffas, Banff, Alberta |
| 2001 | Earful: An Audio Arts Festival – Audio Installation, Halifax |
| 1999 | “A Relatively Small Collection” Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, audio work. |
| 1998 | “Order and Chaos”, Prints and Paintings Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Cornerbrook, Nfld. “The Arch in the Patriarch”, Audio Installation – “Click, Click…” St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| 1995 | “Other Real Stories/d’autres fictions”, Fotofeis, Edinburgh, UK. |
| 1992 | “Radio Rethink: Sound, Art, and Transmission” Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta. |
| 1988 | “Politically Speaking”, Installation “Mimicry” Women in Focus, Vancouver, BC. |
| 1986 | “Politically Speaking”, Installation “Wake Another”, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta. |
| 1985 | “Plug-In Redux”, Installation, “Retrieval”, Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg |
| 1984 | “Social Space”, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta |
| 1983 | “Installations”, Installation “Skeletal Development”, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta. |
Canada Council for the Art International Residency, 2014
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant, 2022, 2009
Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts – 2009
Nova Scotia Arts Council Grant – 2005, 2004, 2001, 1998 – Creation Grant
Nova Scotia Arts Council Grant – 1999 – Presentation Grant
Canada Council Arts Grant – 2022, 2006, 2002, 1999, 1994, 1991, 1988, 1987, 1984, 1983
Ontario Arts Council Grants – 1990, 1986
Toronto Arts Council – 1991
| Associate Professor | Alberta University of the Arts Jan. 2007 – Present Full time |
| Sessional Instructor | Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Sept. 1997 – December 2007 |
| Assistant Professor | Dept. of Fine Arts, Mount Allison University Aug. 1994 – June 1997, Full-time. |
| Sessional Instructor | Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, May 1993 – Sept. 1993, Full-time. Alberta College of Art, January 1993 – April 1993, Part-time. University of Lethbridge, May 1991 – July 1991, Part-time. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design January 1991 – April 1991, Part-time. Sept. 1988 – June 1989, Full-time. |
| Director of Etching | Open Studio, Toronto October 1986 – August 1987. |
| Sessional Instructor | Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Summer Session 1986 & 1985, Full-time. |
| Assistant Professor | The University of Calgary, Dept. of Art Sept. 1981 – April 1982, Full-time. |
| Sessional Instructor | University of Calgary Sept. 1980 – April 1981, Full-time. |
| Sessional Instructor | School of Art, University of Manitoba Sept. 1979 – April 1980, Full-time |
| Maeve Hanna | Sculpture Magazine 2020, |
| James Ellis | Border Crossings Magazine |
| Katherine Ylitalo | Galleries West Magazine |
| Liz Diggon | “Rita McKeough – Subversive Sustenance and the Social Space of Food”. In The Lions Share. The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, 2012 |
| Diana Sherlock | “Rita McKeough – Subversive at work” Canadian Art, Winter 2011 |
| Lana Crossman | “Rita McKeough” Governor General Awards in Visual and Media Arts, 2009 Canada Council for the Arts |
| Anthony Kiendl | “Eating Architecture” Informal Architectures: Space and Contemporary Culture, Black Dog Publishing, London, UK, 2008 |
| Mark Clintberg | “Rita McKeough” Backflash Magazine 2007 |
| Jayne Wark | “Rita McKeough: an Ethics of Compassion”, Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women, YYZ, 2005 |
| Louise W. May | Outskirts, A Performance/Installation by Rita McKeough Owens Art Gallery, 2004. |
| Louise H. Forsyth | The Art of Reva Stone and Rita McKeough: High Tech Encounters AKA, 2000. |
| Barbara Lounder | “Introduction”, Dancing on a Plate, An Installation by Rita McKeough Sir Wilfred Grenfell Art Gallery, Cornerbrook, Nfld., 1996 |
| John Murchie | “Introduction”, Shiver, An Installation by Rita McKeough Art Gallery of Labrador and Newfoundland, 1995 |
| Annette Hurtig | “Introduction”, Rita McKeough – An Excavation, The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1993 |
| Paula Levine | “The Resilient Center”, Arts Atlantic, Fall, 1991 |
| Barbara Lounder | “Introduction”, In bocca al lupo – In the mouth of the wolf, An Installation / Performance by Rita McKeough Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, 1991 |
| Joan Borsa | “Introduction”, Embrace, An Installation by Rita McKeough Art Gallery of Windsor, 1990 |
| Helen Marsolf | “Introduction”, Tremor, An Installation by Rita McKeough The Dunlop Art Gallery, 1989 |
| Leslie Dawn | “Hold Tight Bye Bye”, Vanguard, Feb. / March 1989 |
| Joan Borsa | “Some Voices Have Heart” – The Work of Rita McKeough Vanguard, Summer 1986 |
| Linda Milrod | “Introduction”, Afterland Plaza, An Installation at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, December 1985 |
| Charlie Fox | “Introduction”, Defunct, An Installation by Rita McKeough Alberta College of Art Gallery, 1981 |
“D’Arcy Wilson Tuck”. Catalog essay for D’Arcy Wilson, Tuck,
Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick. 2012.
The Feminist Reconstruction of Space, edited by Louise W. May, St. Norbert Arts Center, 2000.
How to Disguise a Musk Ox as a Ram, Coach House Press, 1980
“Charlotte” Intimate Communion A reading of the work of Charlotte Wilson Hammond,
Saint Mary’s Art Gallery, 1995.
“Under the Big Top”, Artichoke, 1993.