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.

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 1970's 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.

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