Description

Description

Carolee Schneemann Forbidden Actions Photo Screen-Print on Paper mounted on linen, signed in pencil C. Schneemann, dated 1979 and numbered 151/250. Colors are bright and vibrant, paper shows light discoloration in areas.

"Carolee Schneemann (born in Fox Chase, Pennsylvania, 1939, lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York) has been one of the most important figures in the development of performance and Body Art. She is a pioneer of feminist performance of the early 1960s. She has used her own body as the prevalent material of her art. In so doing, she situates women as both the creator and an active part of the creation itself. In opposition to traditional representation of women merely as nude object, she has used the naked body as a primal, archaic force which could unify energies. Her style is direct, sexual, liberating and autobiographical. She champions the importance of women’s sensual pleasure and she examines the possibilities of political and personal emancipation from predominant social and aesthetic conventions. Through the exploration of a large range of media, such as painting, film-making, video art and performance, Schneemann re-writes her personal history of art, refusing the idea of an “his-tory” narrated exclusively from the male point of view." Christine Macel, French curator, Director of the 2017 Venice Biennale and chief curator at the Centre Pompidou.

A selection of Schneemann's exhibitions:

2017: Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting, MoMA PS1, New York, United States

2017: Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2017: Body and Soul: Performance Art – Past and Present Group Exhibition curated by Elga Wimmer, Collateral event La Biennale 2017, Venice, Italy

2016: Further Evidence… Exhibit A…Exhibit B… Double Gallery Solo Exhibition at PPOW Gallery and Galerie Lelong, New York, NY

2016: Postwar – Art between the Pacific and Atlantic 1945 – 1965, Haus der Kunst, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Munich

2016: A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s , The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL

2016: Performing for The Camera, Group Exhibition, Tate Modern, London
2015: Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting, Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, Austria

2015: Sequences VII, Biennial Honorary Artist, solo exhibition at Kling and Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

2014: Lost Meanings of The Christmas Tree, Site Specific Installation and Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2014-2015: The Artist Institute, Year Long Artist Residency and Exhibitions curated by Jenny Jaskey, Hunter College, New York, NY

2014: T-Space, Rhinebeck, NY: Flange 6rpm, Solo Exhibition, Rhinebeck, NY
2014: Carolee Schneemann: Precarious, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France
         Carolee Schneemann: Then and Now, MUSAC, León, Spain
2013: Then and Now Carolee Schneemann: oeuvres d’Histoire, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France
2012: Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the premises, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, II
2010: Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2007: Carolee Schneemann: Breaking Borders, MOCCA, Toronto, Canada
2002: Interior Scroll, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, New York, NY
1997: Schneemann in Bonn, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
1996: Carolee Schneemann: Up to and Including Her Limits, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1995: Carolee Schneemann: Compositions with Interior Scroll, Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery, Nova Scotia
Moral Coils and Up To and Including Her Limits, Kunstraum, Wien, Austria
1988: Self-Shot, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York
1986: Recent & Early Work, Henri Gallery, Washington, DC
1985: Recent Work, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York
1984: Kent State University, Department of Fine Arts, University Gallery, Kent, OH
          Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
          Performed Paintings and Works on Paper, Kleinart Gallery, Woodstock, New York
1983: Recent Work, Max Hutchinson gallery, New York
          Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
           Works on Paper, Rutgers University, Douglass College, New Brunswick
1982: Early Work, Max Hutchinson gallery, New York
1981: Image/Texts and Debris Grid, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Ct
          Image/Texts, Washington Projects for the Arts, Washington
          Fresh Blood: A Dream Morphology, Washington Projects for the Arts, Washington
1980: Dirty Pictures, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1979: ABC – We Print Anything – in the Cards, Gallery De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
          Forbidden Actions, C Space, New York
          Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
1977: Multiples, Archives Francesco Conz, Italy
          ABC – We Print Anything – in the Cards, Gallery De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1974: Up To And Including Her Limits, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
1964: Meat Joy, Festival of Free Expression, Paris
          The Sale, Artist’s Studio, New York
1963: Eye Body, Artist’s Studio, New York
1962: Mink Paws Turret, Artist’s Studio, New York