Motivated by Linda Nochlin's 1971 historical text “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?,” Carrie Schneider: Rapt features Schneider’s ongoing photographic series Reading Women. From 2012-2014 the artist approached one hundred friends—including artists, writers, and musicians—to read a text of their choice, written by a woman author, while she captured the process on film. The exhibition includes a number of the works from the series and invites the public and the student body to read the featured titles in the galleries. Schneider also exhibits large-scale and intimate black-and-white works that reveal a focused exploration of photo-based printing techniques while pointing to the exhibition's larger thesis of women's access and entry into traditionally male-dominated fields.
Carrie Schneider was born in 1979 in Chicago, Illinois. She is a visual artist working in photography and film, based in Brooklyn and Hudson, New York.
Selected solo exhibitions and screenings include Moon Drawings at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago, Illinois (2017); Reading Women at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami, Florida (2017); at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, California (2015); and at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2013); Burning House/Chapas, with composer Cecilia Lopez, at Galería Alberto Sendrós in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2013); and Slow Dance at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois (2009).
Selected group exhibitions include Still Life at September Gallery in Hudson, New York (2018); Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale at the Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art in Chongqing, China (2017); The Making of a Fugitive at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois (2016); Pipe Dream, co-presented by Rachel Uffner Gallery & Night Gallery in New York City (2016); and On Photography, curated by LaToya Ruby Frazier, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey (2013).
Awards and honors include a Creative Capital Grant (2015); the Jerome Foundation New York City Film & Video Grant (2011); and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency Fellowship (2009). Schneider received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2001) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2007); the Whitney Independent Study Program (2015–16); and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki as a Fulbright Fellow (2007–8).
The exhibition and publication are supported by the UAlbany Office of the President, Office of the Provost, The University at Albany Foundation, and University Auxiliary Services (UAS).
- Press Release
- Exhibition Brochure
- Art, Women, Race, and Class Reading Group
- Bibliography
- Times Union Review
Image credit:
Carrie Schneider
Still of Vicky reading Gloria Fuertes (Historia de Gloria: Amor, Humor y Desamor, 1980) from Reading Women (detail), 2012–14
6K video installed 4K on loop
37 minutes; color; sound
Image courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche, Chicago
