Betsy Schneider is an American photographer who lives and works in the Boston Area.

Biography

After her graduation from the

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in 1987, she studied and received a second bachelor's degree in

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and

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at the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...

1990, from 1993 to 1995, she worked as an assistant to photographer

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she earned an MFA from

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California is part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was relocated to Oakland in ...

in 1997. In 1997 she moved to London with Electro-acoustic composer Frank Ekeberg where their daughter Madeleine was born. During that time her work was exhibited frequently in the UK and Scandinavia. In 2001, they moved to Norway where her son Viktor was born, and in 2002 the family moved to

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, accepting a position on the faculty in the School of Art at

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. In addition to being an artist Schneider is a committed educator and has taught in several excellent programs in addition to Arizona State among them

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation's oldest art schools, and the only publicly funded independent art sch ...

, Harvard University, Hampshire College, Wellesley College and Emerson College. In 2011 Schneider received a

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. and over the next four years completed To Be Thirteen, a project consisting of videos and view camera portraits of 250 Thirteen-Year olds from around the US. The work is a traveling exhibition that originated at the Phoenix Art Museum in 2018, a book published by Radius Books and includes an essay by Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, as well as a 55 minute film, Triskaidekaphobia. In 2021 she received a Seed Grant from the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State to collect stories and make portraits of 50 female-identified athletes who played on otherwise all male sports teams. In 2004, her photography caused some controversy in the UK when the police received complaints about nude photographs of her daughter, on display in Spitz Gallery in a group exhibition, "Inventories", an exhibition of four artists whose work addressed family photography. The images were part of a series of pictures from a body of work entitled Quotidian and consisted of three 63-day blocks of daily images of her daughter from birth to nine weeks, two years and five years old. The artist herself was somewhat taken aback by the reaction to her photos and was quoted in the Guardian as saying:

The aim of these pictures is not to provoke or to shock. The idea is to show time, change and growth.

In 2011 she was awarded a

. Schneider is represented by Tilt Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Publications

* Schneider, Betsy (2017)
''To be Thirteen''
Rebecca A. Senf, Phoenix Art Museum, Santa Fe, NM. ISBN 9781942185260

References

External links

Betsy Schneider's website

To Be Thirteen, Published by Radius Books

Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition, To Be Thirteen

Huck Magazine, June 2017

LensCulture Profile, Betsy Schneider
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