Carrie Schneider (born 1979 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American visual artist who works in photography and film.
Biography
Schneider attended
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
(BFA), The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA), the
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists residency located in Madison, Maine, just outside of Skowhegan. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 t ...
, and the
Kuvataideakatemia (Finnish Academy of Fine Arts) in
Helsinki
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as a
Fulbright Fellow. Through photography, Schneider explores the creation of fiction and its tie to truthfulness. Examples of her work are held by the
Art Institute of Chicago
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, the
Museum of Contemporary Photography
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in Chicago and the
Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Quebec.
In 2015 Schneider received a
Creative Capital Award.
References
External links
* http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/01/29/carrie_schneider_reading_women_portraits_examines_the_ways_in_which_female.html
* http://blog.art21.org/2013/02/22/carrie-schneider-adds-a-finnish-touch/#.VphXMJMrIcg
* http://www.aptglobal.org/en/Artists/Page/6794/Carrie-Schneider
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mutualart/subtleties-in-reading-car_b_4632824.html
* http://creative-capital.org/grantees/view/776/project:836
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American photographers
American contemporary artists
1979 births
Living people
American women photographers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni