Gary Schneider

Gary Schneider studied at University of Cape Town and Pratt Institute. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with Schneider-Erdman Inc. Work by Gary Schneider is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Canada, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Photography Collection and Whitney Museum of American Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Name — Gary Schneider • Born — 25 November 1954 • Birthplace — East London, South Africa • Occupation — Photographer • Education — * Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (BFA) • Pratt Institute (MFA) • Website — garyschneider.net

Gary Schneider was born in East London, South Africa and was raised in Cape Town. His BFA is from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town and his MFA is from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. When Schneider entered the University of Cape Town in 1975, conceptual art practices that used the body to examine phenomenology and behavior offered him a way to create and control his own space. Schneider moved from South Africa to New York City in the late 1970s, where he worked for Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater. There he met John Erdman, his partner, who performed in conceptual film, video, and theater. They established Schneider/Erdman Inc. in 1981 "through which Schneider quickly rose to prominence as a master printer of other artists' photographs."

In 1977, Schneider had his first solo exhibition at Artists Space, where he did an installation and performance. Following the exhibition, he continued to make films; most notably Salters Cottages completed in 1981. A book of Salters Cottages film stills was published by Dashwood Books in 2019. In 1998, he completed "Genetic Self-Portrait," a set of fifty-five photographs that form fourteen images of his own body. The work was exhibited in the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne, Switzerland as well as the International Center of Photography in New York City and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The book was published by Light Work, Syracuse in 1999. "Portraits", a survey of his work, was mounted at Harvard Art Museums in 2004. It traveled to the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. Yale Press published a fully illustrated catalog. 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 exhibition, "Flesh", was mounted by the Museum of Photographic Arts 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. "Handbook, South African Artists", Schneider's Guggenheim Fellowship project, was published by Fourthwall Books in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2015.

• 1977: "Naming", installation and performance, Artist Space, New York, NY. • 1997: "Recent Photographs", The Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. • 1998: "Genetic Self-Portrait", Musee de l'Eysee de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. • 2000: "Genetic Self-Portrait", International Center of Photography, New York, NY. • 2003: "Genetic Self-Portrait", University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY. • 2003: "Genetic Self-Portrait", University Galleries, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. • 2004: "Biology", Suzanne H Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA. • 2004: "Portraits", Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. • 2004: "Portraits", Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI. • 2005: "Nudes", Aperture Gallery, New York, NY. • 2007: "Genetic Self-Portrait", The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY. • 2007: "John 1989–2004", The Greenhouse Gallery, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK. • 2008: "Flesh: The Portraiture of Gary Schneider", Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, CA. • 2009: "Life@Life Size", Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. • 2010: "Nudes", Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhus, Reykjavik, Iceland. • 2018: "Analog Culture", Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA.

Gary Schneider is recorded as having studied at University of Cape Town and Pratt Institute. Born in 1954 at East London.