Elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Education: Study Ecole des Beaux Arts, Montreal and with Paul-Émile Borduas.

Solo Exhibitions: 1993 Rita Letendre into the 90’s, Blackwood Gallery, Erindale college, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
1991 The 291 Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1990 Rita Letendre, The Montreal Years 1953-1963, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.
1988, 89, 90, 91, 94 Moore Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario.

Group Exhibitions: 1992 L’Anarchie Resplendissante, Montreal, Quebec
1942-1992, Gallerie de l'Université de Québec.
1992 Achieving the Modern, Winnipeg Art Gallery and traveling exhibition.
1992 Pastels du Quebec, Gallerie de l'Université de Québec, Montreal, Québec.
1992 La crise de l’abstraction, les années 1950, The National Gallery of Canada, travelling exhibition.

Grants: 1975 Canada Council, Senior Arts Grant
1970 Le Festival International de Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Prix National
1967 Bourse de Recherche, Gouvernement du Québec
1962 Canada Council, Travel Grant (Europe).

Major Collections: The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, Quebec; Musée du Québec, Québec, Québec; Art Gallery of Vancouver, Vancourver, British Columbia; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; The Palm Spring Desert Museum, Palm Spring, California; San-Diego Art Gallery, California; Storm King Art Center, New York, New York.

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