Rita Simoni, visual artist born in Buenos Aires in 1961.
Training in ceramics, photography, sculpture, curating, textile design, drawing, and painting.
Architect, FADU/UBA, 1986.
Selected works:
Itaú Prize 2023. Manuel Belgrano Salon, Painting, 2018. National Salon of Visual Arts, Painting, 2017. Bahía Blanca Salon, Photography, 2007.
Solo Exhibitions:
2025: “Finoikos” at FINO 630. Site-specific installation. With the participation of a biologist. / Participation in Tejiendo Redes Coghlan Saavedra, artists' workshops.
2024-25: “That Rumble,” site-specific installation at Landmann-31, Cologne, Germany, which will travel to the Argentine Consulate in Bonn on May 25, 2025.
2022: Creation of a permanent exhibition space at FINO 630, artists' studio. / Urban Museum, “Chromatic Expansion,” site-specific installation in the display case of the Muñiz Hospital, Buenos Aires.
2021: “Urban Alchemy,” paintings and photographs altered at Café Urbano. / “Humectaria,” in One Work, One Artist, site-specific.
2019: “Timeline,” San Martín Cultural Center. Site-specific installation.
2015: “Humectaria,” Zafarrancho. Site-specific installation.
2011: “Big Bang,” Alliance Française. Paintings.
2010-2011: “ESTAR” (Being) Intervention in a vacant lot in the former AU3 area. Exhibition at the Lebensohn Foundation.
2007: “Espacios Residuales” (Residual Spaces), Gandhi Forum. Photography.
2005: "Rosario Cracks," at La Caverna. Photography and drawings.
2003: "Variations on Danger," CC Borges. Objects and installations.
2001: "Burnt Dreams," altered pillows; "Borders and Overflows," expanded painting totems; "Utopias to Assemble," installation, CC Borges.
Group exhibitions, residencies, and curatorial projects:
2025: "That Rumbling," at the Argentine Consulate in Bonn, Germany.
2023: Participation in SACH and in Tejiendo Redes Coghlan Saavedra, invited artist.
2022: Territories in Polyphony.
During the 2020 pandemic, she created "Residency in Residencies," a virtual space for the process and production of artwork, inviting six other artists to a horizontal dialogue; this led to the 2021 exhibition of a video at Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro. In 2022, she participated in the exhibition "Rituals in the Round" at the Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, followed by "Territories in Polyphony," two simultaneous exhibitions at the Palacio Pereda of the Brazilian Embassy on the occasion of the bicentennial, and at El Obrador, featuring 13 South American artists, curated by Mariana R. Iglesias.
2022: "Committed Women," organized by Bien Restituto at Espacio Familiares de la EX. ESMA. / "Relieves of the Body and Nature" at Dumont 4040 – Curated by Moira Antonello.
2020: Participation in the La Gran Paternal event, with an urban intervention at Espacios Balux.
2017: "Mutant Matters," Casa Matienzo. / "Chromatic Archaeologies," Praxis Gallery, Buenos Aires. Painting on reliefs and rubble. / 2017: "Black Body," Cultural Matienzo. Site-specific installation with Silvia Mildiner.
2016: "Becoming and Going" Site-Specific Installation in a building slated for demolition, with the Cruda Collective, curated by Mariana Rodríguez Iglesias. Digital book presented at Espacio OSDE.
2014: "The Wall That Returns to the Wall," Arte x Arte. Site-specific intervention in a former meatpacking plant. / 2014: "No Sphere," San Martín de los Andes Cultural Center. / Espacio Ensamble, Bogotá, Colombia.
2011: "Big Bang" paintings at the Alliance Française of Buenos Aires and Córdoba Airport.
2009: "Author's Photobooks" Fair, Espacio Ecléctico, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
2008: "Outdoors" Installation at La Caverna in Rosario.
2005: "Rivadavia, a Role in Art and Culture." Carousel object. CC Recoleta, curated by Julio Sánchez.
Some of her works belong to private collections.