Biography
Born 1969, Haarlem, Netherlands/Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lara Schnitger applies domestic arts, such as sewing and quilting, to a brand of sculpture-making that merges design with modernist architecture. Knitted and sewn, hairy and bulging, her sculptures have the tendency to anthropomorphize into figures that express pent-up aggressions and sexual desires. The semi-transparent sections of some of Schnitger’s works reveal the crude engineering of the structures within.
Lara Schnitger studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag, Netherlands (1987–91); Academie Vyvarni Umeni, Prague (1991–92); Ateliers, Amsterdam (1992–94); and Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (1999–2000). Solo exhibitions include Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London (2007); My Other Car is a Broom, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, traveling to Stroom den Haag, The Hague (2005, catalogue); Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2005, 2002, 1999, 1996); Blacks on Blondes; Triple Candie, New York (2005); Civilized Special Zone: Lara Schnitger and Matthew Monahan, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China (2002); Raum Aktuellekunst, Martin Janda Gallery, Vienna (2001); Santa Monica Museum of Art (2001); Kunstwerke, Berlin (2000); and the University of Buffalo Art Gallery, New York (1997).
Group exhibitions include Fantastic Politics, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway (2007); Lara Schnitger, Lily Van Der Stoker, Sue Williams, Modern Art, London (2006); USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2006); Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2005); My Barbarian, Powerplant, Toronto (2005); Obsession, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam (2004); Building Structures, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2002); Shanghai Biennial, China (2002); Raumkorper, Netze und andere Gebilde, Kunsthalle Basel (2000); The Centre Holds, Gmurzynska Gallery, Cologne (1997); and Sublieme Vormen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1996).
