Lara Schnitger

Lara Schnitger (born 1969 in Haarlem, Netherlands) is a Dutch-American artist, living and working in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Schnitger primarily makes sculpture, installation, and fabric collage but has also produced video, performance and sound works. She studied at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) from 1987 to 1991 and spent a year on a residency at the Kitakyushu Centre for Contemporary Art in southern Japan.

Contents

• Lara schnitger suffragette city performance
• Lara schnitger performance
• Solo exhibitions selected
• Group exhibitions selected
• Public collections
• References

Using media associated with craft and domesticity, Lara Schnitger’s portrayals of cultural stereotypes are constructed as homespun ‘truths’, made more ’endearing’ and identifiable through their beguiling materials. Standing as aggrandised puppets, her figures are abstracted exaggerations confronting preconceptions and prejudices. Schnitger shares a perverse raunch irreverence with artists like Sarah Lucas and John Bock, but she has a relaxed formalism all her own that echoes American Pattern and Decoration of the 1970s and Simar Polke's fabric paintings. Schnitger works in knitted and sewn textile sculptures, videos and photographs, and has produced a book about art created from mundane materials such as fabric, titled Lara Schnitger: Fragile Kingdom.

Schnitger’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums such as Magasin 3 in Stockholm, the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Kunstwerke in Berlin, the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, The Power Plant in Toronto, and the Royal Academy in London. She participated in the Liverpool Biennial in 1999 and the Shanghai Biennial in 2002. She is represented by Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London, Anton Kern Gallery in New York as well as by Galerie Gebr. Lehmann in Dresden and Berlin.

Solo exhibitions (selected)

1996 Anton Kern Gallery (New York, NY)

1997 University of Buffalo Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY)

2001 Basel Art Fair (Basel)

2001 Santa Monica Museum of Art (Santa Monica, USA)

2002 Chinese European Art Center (Xiamen)

2003 Sprengel-Museum (Hannover)

2005 Magasin 3 Kunsthall Stockholm

2005 Armand Hammer Museum of Art (Los Angeles)

2006 National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo)

2006 Royal Academy of Arts (London)

2008 Double HappinessGalerie Gebr. Lehmann (Berlin)

Dance Witches Dance (with My Barbarian), Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands

2009 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Lara Schnitger – Two Masters and Her Vile Perfume, Sculpture Center, New York, NY

2014 PINKPOP Festival, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastrict, Netherlands

Never Alone: Sister of Arp, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2015 Suffragette City, FRAC Champagne–Ardenne, Reims, France

2016 In Real Life: Lara Schnitger, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Group exhibitions (selected)

1995 Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam)

1999 Art Lovers: Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK, curated by Marcia Fortes

2000 Kunsthalle Basel

2001 11 x Dutch Art, National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia

2002 Shanghai Biennale

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (New York)

2003 Nice and Easy, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

2005 Both Ends Burning, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA [cat]

2006 Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL

USA Today, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK The “F” word, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Liz Thomas

2007 National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo)

Eight Sculptors from Los Angeles, Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st century, New Museum, New York, NY, curated by Mark Flood, Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni [cat]

2008 Sonsbeek 2008 Grandeur, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands, curated by Anna Tilroe

2009 REBELLE: Art and Feminism 1969 – 2000, Mseuem voor Moderene Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands, Curated by Mirjam Westen

2010 Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Dan Byers

2011 Investigation of a Dog: Works from the FACE collections, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece

Eslov Wide Shut 100 Works by 40 American Artists, Stefan Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca, Spain

2012 More to Tell, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands

Without Hope, Without Fear, Mottahedan Projects, Al Quoz, Dubai, UAE

2014 Beating Around the Bush Episode #2, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands

2015 No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Fl

Poor Art - Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and Parallel Practices 1968-2015, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway

2016 Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, Hall Art Collection, Reading, VT

Public collections

Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL

Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands