ABOUT

Caitlin Rueter (b. 1978) lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Rueter’s work is built on the layering and assemblage of materials, in service of, or in dialogue with a specific historical narrative. Repeating a series of steps—collecting, editing, deconstructing, assembling, fragmenting, superimposing and embedding bodies and objects within other objects or images—Rueter layers concepts and materials.

Her practice takes various forms, including photo-based assemblage, video, printmaking and collaborative performance, drawing on historical imagery to create a narrative.

Rueter is represented by bildkultur | galerie in Stuttgart, Germany.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

2022
bildkultur galerie, Origins, or What We Carry, Stuttgart, Germany

2015
Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography, Poise, Power, and Protocol: An American Allegory in Forty-Four Scenes, Cardiff, Wales

2014
bildkultur galerie, Family Affairs, Stuttgart, Germany (with Eva Schmeckenbecher)

2013
O'Born Contemporary, A Feminist Tea Party: Straddling the 49th, Toronto, Canada (in collaboration with Suzanne Stroebe)

2012 
O'Born Contemporary, How To Be, Toronto, Canada
Alfred University, A Feminist Tea Party, Alfred, New York (in collaboration with Suzanne Stroebe)

2011 
bildkultur galerie, Poise, Power, and Protocol: An American Allegory in Forty-Four Scenes, Stuttgart, Germany  
The NYFA Gallery, A Feminist Tea Party, Brooklyn, New York (in collaboration with Suzanne Stroebe)
Pomona College Museum of Art, Academic Programs, Pacific Standard Time: A Feminist Tea Party, Claremont, California (in collaboration with Suzanne Stroebe)
Scripps College, A Feminist Tea Party: Low Tea, Claremont, California (in collaboration with Suzanne Stroebe)
West Gallery, A Feminist Tea Party: Masquerade Tea, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, California (in collaboration with Suzanne Stroebe)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

2014
A.I.R. Gallery, A ‘Womanhouse’ or Roaming House? ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Today (curated by Mira Schor), Brooklyn, New York
The Institute Library, In Relief: A Small History of the Woodcut (curated by James Reed), New Haven, Connecticut

2013
MOMENTA Art, Nu Age Hustle (organized by Katie Cercone), Brooklyn, New York
Diane’s Circus Homemade Superstar Frontierland (presented by Diane Dwyer), Brooklyn, New York 

2012 
ArtScape, Girl Show, Baltimore, Maryland
A.I.R. Gallery, Illegitimate and Herstorical (curated by Emily Roysdon), Brooklyn, New York

2011 
Toronto International Art Fair with O'Born Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Museum of Art and History, A Feminist Tea Party: The Tea Dance, Santa Cruz, California
Winkleman Gallery, Lady Parlour Games (in collaboration with Suzanne Stroebe, Mikki Halpin and Jennifer Dalton, in conjunction with Jennifer Dalton's exhibition, Cool Guys Like You), New York, New York
Campbell Soady Gallery, Intersecting Identities: Women Artists of New York, The LGBT Center, New York, New York
College Art Association Conference, Ask Me, I will Tell (curated by Yulia Tikhonova), New York, New York

2010 
SEVEN Miami, #rank (organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida with Winkleman Gallery), Miami, Florida
Governors Island Art Fair, A Feminist Tea Party, New York, New York
Winkleman Gallery, #class (organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida), New York, New York

2009 
Under Minerva Gallery, Is This Recyclable?, Brooklyn, New York
The Kitchen, MFA Thesis Exhibition (curated by Anthony Allen), New York, New York
ArtLot, Brooklyn, New York
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Reading Room (curated by Eva Diaz), New York, New York

PUBLICATIONS:

Rueter, Caitlin, Origins, or What We Carry (Stuttgart: bildkultur | galerie, 2021)
Rueter, Caitlin and Suzanne Stroebe, Girl Show in Emergency Index 2012, (Yelena Gluzman and Matvei Yankelevich, eds., Brooklyn, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013)
Rueter, Caitlin and Suzanne Stroebe, The Tea Party, Feminism and A Feminist Tea Party in M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online #5, 25th Anniversary Edition, (Susan Bee and Mira Schor, eds., 2011)
Rueter, Caitlin and Suzanne Stroebe, A Feminist Tea Party, NYFA Current, (June 29, 2011)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Pitch Arts and Culture/Illustration Radio, Radio Cardiff 98.7FM (October 1, 2015)
Langen, Andreas, Bildkultur:Erinnerungsstoff, Stuttgarter Zeitung (November 21, 2014)
Gellman, Lucy, What a Relief!, New Haven Independent (February 5, 2014)
GO! Push Pops, Shak-Tea Party (An Experience Reviewed), Posture (January 23, 2014)
Brooks, Katherine, Mira Schor Investigates What The Home Means To Contemporary Women Artists, The Huffington Post (January 9, 2014)
Caitlin Rueter: Ablutions, Magenta Magazine (April 4, 2013)
Milgrom, Lilianne, Art and Beyond (July 25, 2012)
Galloway, Jordan, Talk Flows at A Feminist Tea Party, Brooklyn Based (February 2, 2012)
Take Back the Tea Party!, Brooklyn Based (January 27, 2012)
Eliano, Liza, Tea and Feminism, Hyperallergic (January 26, 2012)
Miranda, Carolina A., This Week: Must-See Arts in the City WNYC: The Culture (January 11, 2012)
Juhasz, Antonia, A Feminist R(t)e(a) Party, MEDIA PRAXIS (October 28, 2011) 
Kalm, James, Jennifer Dalton’s An Evening of Lady Parlour Games at Winkleman Gallery, Art Review (October 26, 2011)
Haegel, Katie, Female Gazing: a day with the Young Women’s Caucus for Art, Bitch Magazine (Summer 2011)
Schor, Mira, A Feminist Tea Party, The Huffington Post (February 11, 2011)
Buda, Stefano, Il Tea Party della Femministe, America 24, Il Tea Party della Femministe (February 11, 2011)
Johnson, Paddy, The Week of Conferences: Event Picks for Social Media Week, Fashion Week, and The CAA Conference, Art Fag City (February 9, 2011)
Langen, Andreas, Teeparty aus feministischer Sicht: Ausstellung "Poise, Power and Protocol,” Stuttgarter Zeitung(January 20, 2011)
Emerick, Peter, Governors Island Art Fair, Artist Pension Trust (September 21, 2010)
Governors Island Art Fair, Pomp & Circumstance (September 15, 2010)
Wiener, Mark and Linda DiGusta, Conceptual Kitchens & Others… The Governors Island Art Fair, The Huffington Post(September 7, 2010)
Kalm, James, Summer Wrap-Up, The Thing (September 3, 2009)

LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA:

2014
Discussant, Sacred Nipples: A Feminist Video Screening and Group Discussion, The Last Brucennial, New York, New York

2012
Panelist, Art Practice, Activism, and Pedagogy: Some Feminist Views, Parsons Fine Arts MFA Program, AMT, New York, New York
Artist Lecturer, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

2011
Artist Lecturer, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, California
Artist Lecturer, Scripps College, Claremont, California
Artist Lecturer, Cooper Union, New York, New York
Panelist, College Art Association Conference, Ask Me and I will Tell, New York, New York

SELECTED GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS:

Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant, 2010
LCU Housing Grant, LCU Foundation, 2008-2009

EDUCATION:

Parsons The New School for Design, New York, New York, MFA, 2009
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, Connecticut, BFA, 2006
Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada, 2001-2002 
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, BA, 2001

CONTACT

caitlinrueter (at) gmail (dot) com