Barbara Schaefer

Barbara Schaefer

Brooklyn, NY, United States

About 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, while its omnipresent history, such as the facades of old Rome, weathered with patina, permeated her work. Italian culture and language, so rich and lively, compelled her to think and act in ways she would not have otherwise discovered.

Education:

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

Events:

upcoming exhibition The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, postponed to November 2020

Exhibitions:

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 and Casa della Cultura di Villa De Sanctis, Rome, Italy
2017 Arte Bodega, American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, Miami, Fl
Uninhabited Rooms, El Barrio's Artspace PS109, NY
Me My Selfie & I, Hudson Guild Gallery, NY
Epiphany/No Instructions Included, El Barrio's Artspace PS109, NY
2016 Participating n Evolution, Continuun Movement Arts, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
2015 "Scope Art Fair," Miami, Florida
2015 "Night Collection," The Louvre Museum, Paris, France
2014 "Murales per Studio Ra," Studio Ra, Rome, Italy
2011 “Foundation Art Fair,” New York Armory, New York, NY
"Curate NYC," Rush Arts Gallery, topped ranked entries, New York, NY
"Non Cercarti Fuori Di Te.." Grand Hotel de la Minerve, Rome, Italy
"L'Europa/L'Africa," Galleria Ottagoni, Rome, Italy
2008 "Pulling Down - Giorno Della Memoria," Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
2004 "Art in Boxes," Concepto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 "International Paper Exhibition," Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY & MG Art International, CVB Space, New York, NY
"Il Principe Azzurro," Studio D'Ars, Milano, Italy and Galleria 9Colonna
Il Resto del Carlino, Bologna, Italy
2002 "ExpoChronos, CMF 40x40," l'altrArte, Rome, Italy
2001 "Sothebys on line," New York, NY
2000 "Intuitive Absract Painting," William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
"Generations II," A.I.R. Gallery, New York
1999 "The Passion of Art," Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
"Drawing Show," Artists Space, New York
1998 "Group Show," Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, Arizona
1997 "Mostra Collettiva sul Bianco," Arrezzoli, Italia
"Group Show," Fenix Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
"Group Show," Lawrence F Abrahamsen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1996 "Pulse Points," Eastern Regional Women's Caucus for Art Juried Exhibition, University Lutheran Church, Cambridge, MA
"Art Celebrates Life," Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
1995 "La Soglia Estrema: Caravaggio," Galleria Polmone Pulsante, Rome, Italy
"II Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea," Palazzo del Comune, Spello, Italy
1994 "Artisti a Pordenone," Fiera di Pordenone, Pordenone, Italy
"Fiori, Frutta e Ortaggi," Galleria Eralov, Rome, Italy
"Exhibition," Jaffe/Baker/Blau Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Vertigo, Darius Gubala Gallery, New York, NY
Ultima Thyle, Centro d'Arte l'Officina di Gorgia, Rome, Italy
1993 Arte Fuori Circuito, Caffè Latino, Rome, Italy
XXI Premio Sulmona, Palazzo dell'Annunziata, Sulmona, Italy
1991 Artisti della Galleria, Galleria Pont des Arts, Rome, Italy
Presenza, Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy
1990 L'idea del Volo, Galleria Tempo Reale, Calcata, Italy