Maria A Schneider

María Alejandra Menduiña Schneider

(Buenos Aires, Argentina · Based in Los Angeles since 2014)


María Alejandra Menduiña Schneider began studying charcoal and pastel drawing at the age of 14 and participated in her first group exhibition at 15. However, it wasn’t until she was 27 that she formally began her training at the Carlos Morel School of Fine Arts in Quilmes.

Coming from a family of artists, her father, a renowned Argentine musician and piano accordionist, surrounded her with creativity, sensitivity, and music, influences that deeply shaped her artistic vision.

As a young mother, she continued her studies while raising her two son, discovering in drawing and the visual arts a personal language and a way of life. That creative legacy continues through her children: Juan Eliel, a skydiver and pilot, and Wally, a manga-style comic artist, each one expressing in their own way the impulse toward freedom and imagination.

She graduated with a degree in Visual Arts Education from EMBA in Quilmes and later continued her studies for a year in Stage Design at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Between 2000 and 2014, she combined her artistic practice with teaching and cultural management. She directed her own studio, where she de...

Education
Degree in Visual Arts Education, (Magisterio en Artes Visuales), EMBA Carlos Morel, Quilmes, Argentina (2000)

Stage Design Studies, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2000/2001).

Training in Transpersonal Therapy (recently completed).

Foundational Art Studies with Eduardo Pardo, Library Mariano Moreno, Bernal.(1985/1987)

Advanced Artistic Mentorship with Roberto Gatti (Surrealist Artist) Buenos Aires (1998/2017)

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
Cultural Center of Chimborazo, Riobamba, Ecuador (2005)

Solo Exhibition: RVanR 2014/2015 Bs As Argentina

Menduina Schneider Art Gallery (2024)


Group Exhibitions
International
Malaysia – Collective Show (2003).

South Korea – Collective Show (2005).

Chunchi, Ecuador – Javen Collective Exhibition (2005).

Casablanca, Uruguay – Mural & Sculpture Artists Meeting (2011).

Macedonia – International Collective Exhibition (2012).

Kosovo – International Collective Exhibition (2012/2013).

Albania – International Collective Exhibition (2012).

Turkey – International Collective Exhibition (2012/2013).

Spain – Collective Show, Lugo (2014).

Italy – International Collective Exhibition (2014).

United Kingdom – International Collective Exhibition (2014).

Colombia – International Collective Exhibition (2013).

Spain – Palacio Micalet, Valencia (2017).

Mexico/Peru/Spain – International Collective Exhibition (2019).

Chile/Mexico – Virtual Collective Exhibit (2020).

Mexico – Collective Exhibition (2023).


United States
MOLAA Gala Participant, Museum of Latin American Art (2023). Special guest invited by CEO Dra Lourdes Ramos, under the curatorial direction of Chief Curator Gabriela Artiaga

Women’s His...