Rita Robillard is a printmaker who studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, before receiving her MFA degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Her recent work investigates geography, place and identity through a process that begins with interviewing individuals to collect diverse and personal perspectives of the place where they live. Additional work explores the effects of transitioning 18th and 19th century travel engravings through a process of fragmentation, enlargement and digital manipulation in order to comment on personal histories and memory. Rita has recently exhibited at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, OR., and also has shown at the A.I.R. Gallery in New York, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the China National Academy of Art. Her work is held in the collections of the Banco do Itu, Sao Paulo; the Brooklyn Museum Library; the Cooper-Hewitt Museum; and the libraries of the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She currently teaches at Portland State University in Oregon.