Barbara Schaefer

Barbara Schaefer is an interdisciplinary artist whose paintings and photographs are exhibited internationally. She obtained a BFA from The University of Arizona and an MFA from San Francisco State University. She won a Helen Wurlitzer Foundation Artist-in-Residency award in 1997, the New York Foundation For The Arts Sponsorship in 1996, a grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2004 and an Artist-in-Residency award at the Fundación Valparaiso in 2005. In 2011, Barbara had a solo museum exhibition at the Museo Comunale D’Arte Moderna in Senigallia, Italy and received a grant from Franklin Furnace. In 2015, Barbara’s photography was exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France and at the Scope Art Fair in Miami. In 2016 she had a solo exhibition in Rome, Italy at Studio Matacotta. In 2017 2017 a three-year collaborative project was held at El Barrio’s ArtSpace PS 109 in East Harlem. In 2019 she had a solo interactive multimedia exhibition with video, sound, photography at The Macro Museum in Rome.

Barbara lived in Rome, Italy from 1983 until 1995. Her experience of living in Rome had a significant impact and influence on her work and in her life. The city's beauty inspired her toward refinement and aesthetic choice, wh...

MFA Interdisciplinary Arts, San Francisco State University, 1983
BA Art Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1976
BFA Studio Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 1975

Solo Exhibitions
2019 Love Letter to Roma, tra mito e realtà, video projection, MACRO Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2019 Love Letter to Roma, MACRO Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2016 "The Dancer Returns Home & Other Stories," Studio Matacotta, Rome, Italy
2014 “Echo Art Fair” – Central Library, Buffalo, NY
2011 “Assenza Presenza” – Museo Comunale D’Arte Moderna, Senigallia, Italy
2009 "Invisible Realms - Dialogue With A Virtual Prince," Studio Fontaine, Viterbo, Italy
"Il Celio in una Settimana," L'Associazione Culturale Celiomatografo, Rome, Italy
2006 "The Song of Memory," CIIS, San Francisco, CA
2003 "From New York to Athens," Kultur.Raum Im Rosenhaf, Tegernau, Germany
2000 "The Song of Memory," Notre Dame College, S Euclid, Ohio
1998 "The Song of Memory," Int. Conference for Partnership, Tucson, Arizona
1994 "Lavori su Carta," Galleria Dusseldorf / Roma, Rome, Italy
1992 "Extremely Urgent," Galleria Miralli, Palazzo Chigi Viterbo, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2020 Child Brides: il lupo e la bambola, Nuovo Cinema Aquila, Roma, Italy
2019 Child Marriage: L'Ombra di di Barbablù, Sala Consiliare del Municipio Roma I Centro
2018 MALEfemmina, Teatro l'arbiliuto, Rome, Italy ...