Lara Schnitger

Lara Schnitger (born 1969 in Haarlem, Netherlands) is an Dutch-American sculptor, living and working in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Schnitger 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.

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 has participated in the Liverpool Biennial in 1999 and the Shanghai Biennial in 2002. She is represented by Anton Kern in New York as well as by Galerie Gebr. Lehmann in Dresden and Berlin.

External links

* [http://www.e-flux.com/displayshow.php?file=message_1119639882.txt E-Flux : Lara Schnitger - (2005-06-24)]
* [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/lara_schnitger.htm Lara Schnitger - Art Works - The Saatchi Gallery]