2021  Menachem Begin Heritage Center,  “Menachem Begin: 22 Portraits,” Jerusalem

2012 Hayden Hays Gallerie, “New Works”, Colorado Spring

2005 Galerie Stil und Bruch, “Beasts and Other Beauties," Berlin, Germany

2002 Espace Meyer Zafra, “Portraits,” Paris, France

1998 Colorado Architecture Partnership, “The Big Paintings," Colorado Springs, Colorado

1997 Colorado College, “Portraits of Elie Wiesel," Colorado Springs, Colorado

1993 Brownsboro Gallery, “Heads and the Beheaded," Louisville, Kentucky

1986 Carnegie Arts Center, “New Monoprints," Covington, Kentucky

1985 Michael Lowe Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

1982 Greta Peterson Galerie, Cincinnati, Ohio

2014 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, “Collection FAC,” Colorado Springs, Colorado

2008 Art Jerusalem Fair, Underground Prisoners Museum, The Russian Compound, Jerusalem, Israel

2007 FAC Modern, “Faces in the Crowd”, Colorado Springs, Colorado (portraiture from the permanent collection)

2007 FAC Modern, “Spring Forward”, Colorado Springs, Colorado

2005 Kunstfaktor, “Die Toteninsel” (The Island of the Dead), Berlin, Germany

2003 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, “The Pack”, Colorado Springs, Colorado

2002 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, “Colorado 2002", Colorado Springs, Colorado

2000 LA BAC Fundaciòn Internacional, 19 Passage Moliere, Paris

Curators: Nelson Castellano-Hernandez and Carmen Mistaje-Braunstein

1988 Water Tower Annual J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Juror: Victoria Munroe, New York

1987 Center for Contemporary Art, “Regional Expressionism”, Lexington, Kentucky

1985 Delaware Art Museum, “The Female Animal”, Wilmington, Delaware

1984 J.B. Speed Museum, “Eight States Contemporary Artists”, Louisville, Kentucky

1982 The Contemporary Art Center, “Figure ‘82", Cincinnati, Ohio

1982 Center for Contemporary Art, “Choice Painting,” University of Kentucky, Lexington,

Juror: C. Michael O’Brian, Metropolitan Museum, New York

1980 Goethe-Institute, Paris

2021 Zamarin Center, “Making a Place,” Zichron Yaacov, Israel

2011 Internationale Zeitgenossiscle Kunst, Witten, Germany

2011 Kahls Hof, "Cologne Meets New York," Cologne, Germany

2008 Engel Gallery, Gallery Artists, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2007 Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, “Neuen Gruppenausstellung”, Berlin, Germany

2006 Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, “Best Of!”, Berlin, Germany

2004 Bryan & Scott Gallery, “Nine Artists”, Colorado Springs, Colorado

2003 Bryan & Scott Gallery, “Figure and Form”, Colorado Springs, Colorado

2002 Espace Meyer Zafra, “Exposition Collective: Cinq Artistes de la Galerie”, Paris, France

2000 Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado

1999 Ruth Maier Siebensterngalerie, “Kunst-melange”, Vienna, Austria

1999 Business of Arts Center, "Form Fest," Colorado Springs, Colorado

1994 Hal-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

1986 Robert L. Kidd Associates/Galleries, “Animals! Contemporary Visions”, Birmingham, Michigan

1986 Three Rivers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Juror Lynn Gumpert, 76 New Museum, New York

1982 Olin Fine Arts Center, 14th Washington and Jefferson College National Painting Show, Washington, Pennsylvania

2011 Red Dot Art Fair, New York, New York

2010 Art San Diego, San Diego, California

2012 New Acquisitions, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

2012 Museum Purchase, El Pomar Foundation, Colorado Springs

2003 Museum Purchase, Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado

1983 Merit Award, Painting, Art ‘83, Indianapolis, Indiana

1983 Juror’s Special Merit Award and selection for traveling exhibition, Elizabeth, Kentucky

1981 Museum Purchase, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Merit and Purchase Award

Juror: C. Michael O’Brian, Metropolitan Museum, New York

2008 Art Jerusalem Fair, Underground Prisoners Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

2002 Espace Meyer Zafra, 4 rue Malher, Paris, France

1994 Gil Asakawa, “Go Figure”, Colorado Springs Gazette, November

1993 Diane Heilenman, Brownsboro Gallery Exhibition, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, October

1985 Daniel Brown, “Sexual Stylistics”, Dialogue Arts Journal, Ohio, July–August

1985 Jan Riley, “Romantic Realist”, Dialogue Arts Journal, March–April

1984 Owen Findsen, “Rita Zimmerman’s Animal Paintings Not the Stuff of Disney, Audubon”, The Cincinnati Enquirer, December 16

1984 Gregg Levoy, “The Young in Art: Four Profiles of Emerging Cincinnati Artists”, The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 15

1983 Ann Tower, “Louisville Display Contains In-Depth Artistic Statements”, The Lexington Herald-Leader, November 6

1982 Sarah Landsell, “Choice Painting Vibrations Lift Spirits, Raise Hopes”, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, October 10

1982 B. J. Foreman, “Figural Art Star of Show”, The Cincinnati Post, May 1

1982 Owen Findsen, “Springfest Opener a Figurative Fest”, The Cincinnati Enquirer, May 2

1982 Robert Stearns, “Figure ‘82", Dialogue Arts Journal, May

1982 Maureen Bloomfield, “Ending the Silence”, Dialogue Arts Journal, September

1984 MASTER OF FINE ARTS, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, Awarded a full university scholarship

1976 BACHELOR OF ART IN ART, University of Florida, Gainesville

1992 Summer Program, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado, Awarded scholarship