Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019), multidisciplinary artist. Schneemann transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body.
Painting, photography, performance art and installation works shown at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and most recently in a retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York entitled “Up To And Including Her Limits”. Film and video retrospectives Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Film Theatre, London; Whitney Museum, NY; San Francisco Cinematheque; Anthology Film Archives, NYC.
She has taught at many institutions including New York University, California Institute of the Arts, Bard College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recipient of a 1999 Art Pace International Artist Residency, San Antonio, Texas; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1997, 1998); 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship; Gottlieb Foundation Grant; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME. Lifetime Achievement Award, College Art Association, 2000.
Schneemann has published widely; books include Cezanne, She Was A Great Painter (1976), Early and Recent Work (1983); More Than Meat Joy: Performance Works and Selected Writings (1979, 1997). Forthcoming publications include Imaging Her Erotics, from MIT Press. A selection of her letters edited by Kristine Stiles is also forthcoming.
Artist Code: 120
Videography
Imaging Her Erotics: Four Recent Installations
1992, 10:00 minutes, colour/B&W, English
Vesper's Stampede To My Holy Mouth
1992, 15:00 minutes
Up to and Including Her Limits
1982, 25:00 minutes, colour, silent
1972, 18:00 minutes, colour
Viet-Flakes MASTER continuous play Digitized May 3, 2023
1965, 41:23 minutes, colour, n/a sound
1965, 21:00 minutes, colour, silent
Critical Writing
by and . London: Phaidon Brooklyn Museum, 2023.
by . One Hour Empire, Summer 2010, no. 3.
by . Cinematic Folds: The Furling and Unfurling of Images, 2008. Toronto: Pleasure Dome, 2008.
viewoncanadianart.com, Dec. 27, 2008.
by . Wack!: art and the feminist revolution, 2007. Los Angeles: The Mocha L.A, 2007.
by . Immersion Immersive, 2006.
by . Video Art, 2003. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
by . Images Festival of Independent Film and, 1992. Toronto: Northern Visions, 1992.