Rita Maas

Born in New York in 1956, Rita Maas received her BFA in Photographic Studies from the School of Visual Arts in 1981. Shortly thereafter she established a successful commercial studio in New York, NY shooting award winning campaigns for major advertising and editorial clients. She earned her MFA in Visual Arts at Lesley University College of Art and Design in 2013.

Maas’ work concerns itself with the conditions surrounding photography and examines photographic materials and processes while reflecting upon themes of reproduction, representation, perception, and interpretation.
Maas’ work is held in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lishui Museum of Photography in Lishui, China and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. as well as several corporate and private collections.

Maas has recently acted as Visiting Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology and served as Visiting Artist and Adjunct Professor at College of Staten Island, CUNY.

MFA in Visual Arts from The Arts Institute of Bostaon, MA, 2013
BFA in Photography from School of Visual Arts New York, NY 1981.

2019
KlompChing Gallery,Brooklyn, NY, FRESH
Filter Space, Chicago, IL, Imprints & Abstractions
Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, Art on Paper
2018
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Umbrella Arts, New York, NY
New Art Center, Newton, MA

2017
Spot Gallery, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Filter Space/Filter Photo Festival, Chicago IL
Houston Center for Photography, Houston TX

2016
Circuit Gallery@Prefix ICA, Toronto CA
Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Australia

2015
Norton Gallery at the Phoenix Art Museum, Phonix AZ
International Photography Festival, GuatePhoto, Guatemala City, Guatemala

2014
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Hot Off the Press
PhotoEye Gallery/ Photographers Showcase, 20th Century Plastics

2013
Caloundra Regional Gallery, Tasmania, Touring Exhibition Missing Presumed Dead, curated by Paul Snell
Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY, Elements juried by Jennifer McGregor
2012
Gallery 1401, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Reality TV
Central Square Theater, Cambridge, MA, This That Show
2011
Contemporary Arts Spaces Tasmania (CAST) Missing Presumed Dead, curated by Paul Snell
Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, The Collector’s Guide to Ne...