SELECTED SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2028

• “Unsettled Ground” (forthcoming solo exhibition) — Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri 

2026

• Rockford Art Museum — 78th Rockford Midwest Biennial, curated by Laurie Hogin, Professor, School of Art & Design, UIUC 
• "Art From The Heartland" — Indy Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana (group show); curated by Kolt Lucius Sizer, South Bend Museum of Art 
• “Golden Vision: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Celebrates 50 Years” — Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (group show)
• “Beneath Hyperion’s Sky” — Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo show)

2025

• “New American Paintings”, Issue 179, Midwest Issue, curated by Stephanie Fox Knappe, Sanders Sosland Curator of Global Modern and Contemporary Art and Head of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and included as a Noteworthy artist
• “Terrain: Contemporary Abstract Landscapes” — 33 Contemporary Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
  (group show) 

2024

• “land(e)scape” — Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo show) 

2023

• Art Miami, Zolla / Lieberman Gallery 
• “Parsing Geometry of the Landscape” — Lee E. Dulgar Gallery, South Suburban College, South Holland, Illinois (solo show)
• “Measured Ground” — Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo show)   

2021

• Ragdale Artist Residency   
• Summer Invitational — Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• Art Miami, Zolla / Lieberman Gallery 

2020  

• Rockford Art Museum — 76th Rockford Midwest Biennial, curated by Jim Dempsey of Corbett Vs. Dempsey Gallery, Chicago
• "Distillation in Space" — Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo show)  
• "The Anniversary Show: 35 Years of Art with Friends" — Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• Palm Beach Modern & Contemporary, Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
• Lawrence & Clark
• "Art In Isolation" — North Dakota Museum of Art

2019

• Art Battle – Rockford Art Museum     
• "Polychromiscape" — Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo show)   
• Lawrence & Clark

2018    

• Art Miami, Zolla / Lieberman Gallery      

2017     

• Art Miami, Zolla / Lieberman Gallery
• Quad Cities Art Center, Illinois     

2013

• "New Work" — Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo show)

2009   

• "New Work" — Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo show)
• Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois; Recent Acquisition Exhibition      

2007

• Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (2-person show) (review available)      
• "Uninhabited Landscape" — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, Illinois (solo show)
• Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois (two-person show)       

2006

• “Weather Systems” — Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois (solo show) (review available)

2005   

• Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Summer Show (group show)      
• Linda Durnell Gallery — Los Gatos, California

2004

• “Atmospheric Conditions” — Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo show) (review available)      
• Olive Deluce Gallery, Northwest Missouri University, Maryville, Missouri (solo show and lecture)      
• Harper College, Palatine, Illinois (Two-person show and lecture)

2003

• “As small as possible” — Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (group show)      
• “Compendium” — Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (group show)
• “Landscapes Reflected” — Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo show) (review available)
• “Open Space Reflected” — Gallery 645, Chicago, Illinois (solo show)
• Beverly Art Center, Chicago, Illinois (group show)

2002   

• Art St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri: “New Works: Nine States”
• A.R.C., Chicago, Illinois (group show)       
• Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, New Jersey 
• “New Talent Two” — Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Illinois (group show)
• “Blue Blood, Blue Collar” — Heaven Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (group show)
• “An Amuse Bouche: A Group Show” — Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

REVIEWS / PUBLICATIONS 

• “New American Paintings”, Issue 179, Midwest Issue
• 60wrd/min COVID Edition: Silent Acoustic, Mayumi Lake, Alejandro Medina, Rhonda Gates – February, 2021, by Lori Waxman
• Artnet.com, Art In America — May, 2007, by Victor Cassidy
• “Prairie Smoke: "Rhonda Gates: Weather Systems” by Victor Cassidy
• Chicago Tribune — by Alan Artner   
• “Prairie Smoke: "Open and Quiet Spaces” by Victor Cassidy   
• UR Chicago – “Reflection Eternal” by Cecilia Wong

LECTURES     

• South Suburban College — South Holland, Illinois   
• Harper College — Palatine, Illinois   
• Olive Deluce Gallery — Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri

EDUCATION     

• Master of Science Degree in Education in Teaching Art; Northwest Missouri State University — Maryville, Missouri
• Bachelor of Fine Arts; Northwest Missouri State University — Maryville, Missouri

Numerous paintings purchased and/or commissioned for corporate, private and museum collections.