Gary Schneider

Gary Schneider was born in East London, South Africa and raised in Cape Town. He now lives and works in New York. His BFA is from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town and his MFA is from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He is Artist in Residence at Stony Brook University. Schneider is a contemporary photographer working in both digital and film media. Schneider is best known for “Genetic Self-Portrait” which is a set of 55 photographs that make up fourteen images of his own biology that are a collection of forensic images. The work was completed in 1998 and was exhibited in the Musee De L’ Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland as well as the International Center of Photography in New York City and Mass MoCA as well as many other venues. The book was published by Light Work, Syracuse in 1999. “Portraits”, a survey of his work, was mounted at the Sackler Museum, Harvard University in 2004. It traveled to the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. A fully illustrated catalog was published by Yale Press. Aperture published his “Nudes” in 2005 and exhibited the life-size photographs in New York. The exhibition traveled to the Reykjavik Art Museum in 2010. A survey, “Flesh” was mounted by MoPA in San Diego in 2008. “HandBook” is Schneider’s 2010 artist book published by Aperture and printed by Schneider on a print-on-demand press. Schneider’s work is represented in many museums including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The National Gallery of Canada, The Guggenheim Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, George Eastman House, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Musee de l’Elysee Lausanne, Harvard University Art Museum, and Boston Museum of Fine Art.

artist website http://www.garyschneider.net/.

Howard Yezerski Gallery http://www.howardyezerskigallery.com

Selected reviews and articles