Katy Schneider
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Resume

EDUCATION
   
1990 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, MFA 1989
1989 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1986 Yale University, New Haven, CT, BA, cum laude, Painting
   
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
   
1999-2000 Visiting Artist, Boston University, Boston, MA
1990-Present Lecturer, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
1996 Visiting Artist, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1990 Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
   
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
   
2006 Bank Street College of Education's Irma S. and James H. Black Book Award for Once I Ate a Pie
2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
2004 Best Book Award for Painting the Wind, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio
2002 National Academy of Design, Thomas B. Clarke Prize
National Academy of Design, Henry WardRanger Fund Purchase Award
2000 Blanche Colman Award, Boston, MA.
  Massachusetts Cutural Council Grant, Boston, MA
1996 New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Fellowship
American Academy of Arts and Letters: Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Award, New York, NY
1995 Best of Show, Juried Exhibition. Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA
1991 Williamsburg Arts Lottery Grant. Williamsburg, MA
1990 Indiana Arts Competition. Third Prize, American States Insurance Company, Indianapolis, IN
Juried Competition, Best of Show, Floyd County Museum of Art, New Albany, IN
1989 National Society of Arts and Letters. Best of Show, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Residence Fellowship, Skowhegan, ME
1988 MFA Teaching Assistantship, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Dean's Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1986 Ethel Walker Memorial Award, "Most Outstanding Art Major", Yale University, New Haven, CT
1985 Ellen B Stoekel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
   
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
   
2007 Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
Riot, New York, NY
2005 Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 University Art Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
1999-1997 Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA
1995 Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Hampshire College, Main Gallery, Amherst, MA
1993 Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Fine Arts Gallery, Springfield Technical and Community College, Springfield, MA
1991 Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA
1990 Meekins Library Gallery, Williamsburg, MA
1987 Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
   
2007 "Go Figure", The McIninch Art Gallery at Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester NH
"Little Women", Contemporary Artists Envision Girls and Their Worlds, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington MA
Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield MA
2006 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY
2005 SoFA Gallery, "Figure", Bloomington, IN
2004 Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ
Hidell Brooks Gallery, "still lifes and interiors", Charlotte NC
2003 Hiddell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2002 National Academy of Design, "177th Annual"
2000 Still Lifes, Wm Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
1999 Summer Group and Introduction, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Form > Idea, Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Get Real, New Realism for a New Millennium, University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
1998 Brush Art Gallery, "Self Amused", Lowell, MA
Wm Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA. group show
1997 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
1996 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
Herter Gallery, "Five College Studio Art Faculty Drawing Exhibition", University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of New Hampshire, "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral", Durham, NH
1995 Clark Gallery, "Social Life", Lincoln, MA
Clark Gallery, "13th Annual Salon Show", Lincoln, MA
Northampton Center for the Arts, "Juried Exhibition", Northampton, MA
1995 Bowery Gallery, "The Bowery Invites", New York, NY
Erector Square Gallery, "Women in the Visual Arts", New Haven, CT
1994 The Gallery at Monterey, "Artist's Choice", Monterey, MA
Northampton Center for the Arts, "Works in Sequence", Northampton, MA
Salve Regina College Gallery, "Drawing Show", Newport, RI
1992 Northampton Center for the Arts, "Balls, People and Other Abstractions", Northampton, MA
1990 Floyd County Art Museum, "Juried Exhibition", New Albany, IN
American States Insurance Company, "Indiana Arts Competition", Indianapolis, IN
1989 Indiana University Campus Community Arts Center, "National Society of Arts and Letters Juried Exhibition", Bloomington, IN
1987 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, "Third Annual Young Artists Exhibition", Provincetown, MA
Hudson Walker Gallery, "Interiors/Exteriors", Provincetown, MA
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY
   
Naves, Mario. "Waving to the 20th Century En Route to the 19th"
     New York Observer   May 21, 2001
Worth, Alexi.
     New Yorker   May 14, 2001
Black, Jane. "Similarly Opposed"
     Dayton Daily News   Feb. 13, 2001
Unger, Miles. "David Gloman and Katy Schneider"
     Art New England   Dec. 1999
Boucher, Christopher. "Gloman and Schneider Paint from Close-Up, Far Off"
     Daily Hampshire Gazette   Sept. 24, 1998
McQuaid, Cate. "Beauty in the Balance of Nature and Math"
     Boston Globe   May 1995


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Reviews

New York Times Book Review, August 10, 2003
Painting the Wind is "thoughtful and beautiful."



The New Yorker, May 6, 2001




Mario Naves, "Waving to the 20th Century en Route to the 19th"
New York Observer, May 21,2001


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Self Portrait, 1998, Oil on Panel, 6 3/8 x 4 1/4
I paint what moves me. The faces of my six siblings inspired me to do portraiture as a child, growing up in a two bedroom apartment in midtown Manhattan. This same apartment — cluttered with clothing, bunkbeds, my father's collections of victorian antiques, clocks, pot belly stoves — inspired the intimate, small scale interiors, chock full of information, I did as a young adult studying oil painting. I was inpired by my mother's wonderful ability to organize chaos and make the most of a small space.

After moving with my husband, painter David Gloman, to Northampton, MA to teach at Smith College, I sought out families to "join" and found inspiration in their body language and their homes - how they revealed psychological dynamics. At this same time, my beloved dog Rudy was also a favorite model. His portraits were a precurser to the many dog portraits I have done.

The greatest thing, however, to happen to me as an artist was the birth of my three children Olive, Mae and Ellis. I was moved by the unbelievable shape of my pregnant belly, the odd proportions of the head of a newborn, the gestures, antics, and day to dayness of life with toddlers. I tried and continue to try to tell the stories of my life - as a mother who paints, as a person enamored with her children.

By focusing on creating a strong sense of light and a clear sense of space, I hope to draw the viewer into my paintings. By manipulating these elements I hope to discover and reveal particular relationships. I also try to create a "forever" kind of quality to the work, though the subject matter may be of a fleeting nature. This is especially true of the recent flower paintings I have enjoyed doing. My love of light, my homegrown peonies and Manet's flower paintings provide inspiration when I need a break from faces.

Some recent work is in some ways a mixture of all the subjects that have moved me throughout my life. In many ways though, it is a completely new step. I have the privilege of illustrating my first children's book, written by Patricia MacLachlan, (Newbery Award winning author of Sarah Plain and Tall) and her daughter Emily. In this book entitled "Painting the Wind," I try my hand at landscape as well as portraiture, still life and flower painting. The book tells the story of a young boy who lives on an island and paints alongside several artists who visit during summer. It will be out in the summer of 2003, published by HarperCollins.
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