About Rita Ackermann

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    Rita Ackermann is a Hungarian-American artist. She is currently living and working in New York City. She was born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1968.

    Ackermann trained at the University of Fine Arts Budapest from 1989 until 1992. She moved to New York City to study at The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture*. In an interview Ackermann was asked about her choice to move to New York and how it has influenced her work to which her response was, "It gave me possibilities that I had to choose from and then learn to narrow… narrow things down to their bare existences to find out the reason to make something where everything is already made or readymade. I am an optimist always full of hope that I find my way that is ...

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