b. 1968
Rita Ackermann was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1968. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1989 to 1992, before continuing her studies at The New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture (Hanes Foundation), where she graduated in 1993. She currently lives and works in New York.
Ackermann is best known for her abstract bodily paintings addressing topics of anthropomorphism and femininity through a personal language of gestural markings.
Popular among the fashion industry and reportedly collected by fellow artists Tracey Emin and John Currin, she has also collaborated with filmmaker Harmony Korine.
Her works are housed in the public collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Denver Art Museum, Logan Collection, Denver, Colorado; The Long Museum, West Bund, China; The Maria Leuff Foundation, New York; Marieluise Hessel Foundation, New York; Museum het Domein, Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Ståhl Collection, Sweden and The Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom.
