Rita is a multidisciplinary artist and architect born and raised in Damascus-Syria where she received her bachelor degree in architecture from Damascus University, and moved to Montreal-Canada to earn her BFA majoring in sculpture from Concordia University. Currently she splits her time between Berlin and Beirut.
Her practice, whether it is sculpture, painting, drawing, or site specific installation and performative action, is deeply rooted in social and political activism.
Rita questions the body in relation to borders, oppression and displacement and focuses on intersectional racial and gender-based discrimination from the point of view of a feminist Arab non-conforming woman.
Trained in both architecture and sculpture, Rita focuses her practice on public space. She uses public art as a way to make her work accessible and to directly engage a wide audience. Her projects often take the form of interactive installations in open or shared spaces, where viewers are invited to touch, play, and activate the work, creating opportunities for conversation and exchange.

Rita extends her practice into digital and virtual spaces, approaching them as contemporary forms of public space. Through illustration and comics, she engages in collaborative and activist work with politically and socially engaged Arab online platforms. She is a graphic designer at Al-Jumhuriyah.net, the founder and creator of Her Dinosaur’s Diary, a feminist online comics platform, and the co-founder of Radical Care Lab, a process-based public art collective.