Kimberly Schneider

Kimberly Schneider is a Visual Artist, Educator, and Master Printer who has been dedicated to the art of the handmade (darkroom) print for the past 20+ years. Born in Chicago and based in New York, she has a fully functioning darkroom in her apartment, which is not something she takes lightly.

Specializing in true infrared film, spiritual landscapes, and experimental photograms, she holds a BFA in photography (and a minor in philosophy) from Colorado State University; While both are deeply intertwined, she identifies as a Printer more than
anything else.

Kimberly began making photograms with handheld light sources in June 2020, due to
having an unfinished darkroom in/taking over her apartment at the time; By sheer luck, or perhaps a matter of fate, the wet side of her current darkroom was essentially complete just 2 weeks prior to the shutdown (the dry side wouldn’t be touched for
another 6 months).

What began as a way to deal with both isolation and printing withdrawal (after losing her prior darkroom to NYC rent hikes in 2017), quickly led to her metamorphosis as an artist, as well as her current source of income (after losing her prior job to the pandemic in July 2020). Six bodies of work and several awards later, she not onl...

2001: Intern, The Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO

2002: Colorado State University — BFA, Photography, Minor in Philosophy

TO BE UPDATED WITH MANY MORE SHOWS, NEW AWARDS, CLASSES & MORE (AUGUST 2023)

December 9, 2021 - February 6, 2022: 6th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography; FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain

September 11 – October 6, 2021: Serendipitous Eye: An exhibit for the Alternative Process, Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, Oregon. Juried by Melanie Walker

July 29 – September 24, 2021: 2021 Photo Competition/2021 Society of Arts and Crafts (SAC’s) and Stonehenge Gallery Photo Exhibit, International Arts Center, Huo Bao Zhu Gallery, Troy University, Troy, Alabama.

July 10-28, 2021: 2021 Photo Competition/2021 Society of Arts and Crafts (SAC’s) and Stonehenge Gallery Photo Exhibit, Stonehenge Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama; Juried by Sarah Kennel, Curator of Photography at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA.
[The exhibition originated at Stonehenge Gallery before traveling to Troy University for the follow up show]

June 27 – August 8, 2020: Light Sensitive – Celebrating the Art of Handcrafted Prints, Juried by Brett Abbott, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ

2018: Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2018: Women of the West, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2018: 5th Annual Photography Now, Zia Gallery, Winnetka, IL
2017 - ...