Gary Schneider

Gary Schneider is a photographer who was born in East London, South Africa and 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. He is currently a Faculty member at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Schneider is a contemporary photographer working in both digital and film media.Schneider is best known for his photographs of the human body, such as Robert from 1996, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. In 1998, he completed “Genetic Self-Portrait”, which is a set of 55 forensic photographs that make up fourteen images of his own body. The work was exhibited in the Musée de lÉlysée 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 the Sackler Museum, Harvard University in 2004. It traveled to the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. A fully illustrated catalog was published by Yale Press. 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, “Flesh” was mounted by MoPA 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. Schneider’s work is represented in many museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman Museum, Harvard Art Museums, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée de lÉlysée in Lausanne, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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