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Exhibition History
*solo shows marked by asterisk
2023
* Charting the Badlands: Drawings and Meditations, Upstate Gallery at the Chapman Cultural Center, Spartanburg, SC.
Satellite and Sediment: Drawings by Cynthia Lin, Beatrice Modisett, Athena LaTocha, Barry Nemett and Sara Schneckloth, curated by Laini Nemett, Feigenbaum Center for the Fine Arts, Union College, Schenectady, NY.
Reimagining the Landscape, Conversations with Artists, https://www.conversationswithartists.com/rethinking-the-landscape - online exhibition.
2022
BUILDING, ChopShop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
2021
Pigments Revealed, Wild Pigment Project Symposium, Online exhibition, https://wildpigmentproject.org/prs-exhibition
Heuss/Schneckloth, TCC Fine Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL.
2020
* Island Nations // Lands Divided, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC.
The Signal House Edition, Featured Artist, Online art publication based in Dublin, Ireland, and London, UK.
2019
Bullfrog Biennial, Goldwell Open Air Museum, Rhyolite, NV.
Winter Salon, Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Generations, Koger Center for the Arts, Columbia, SC.
2018
Forgotten Stories of Frozen Seeds, Bibliotek og Byarkiv, Tromsø, Norway and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Longyearbyen.
Concrete Jungle: Art of Architecture, Chicago Art Source Gallery, Online Exhibition, Chicago, IL.
2017
Therein: Fahenstock/Schneckloth, Leu Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, TN.
The Common Gesture: Drawing//Phenomenology, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
12 x 12, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS.
The Tiny Enormous, University of North Georgia, Gainesville, GA.
Drawing for Meaning, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Breathing Stones, Online Exhibition, www.breathingstones.com.
2016
* Geofacts and Lithoscapes, Gatewood Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC.
* Through Flesh and Stone, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC.
Build, Ciel Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
Fire/Water, part of Considering the Revolution, Vista Arts District, Columbia, SC.
Accretion, with Eva Champagne, Alexander Brest Gallery, Jacksonville, FL.
Whose Fault, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK.
2015
* To Scale, Foley, New York, NY.
Animating the Bargehouse, We All Draw, OXO Tower, London, UK.
Nature Transformed, Chicago Art Source, Chicago, IL.
Surge and Sequence - Schneckloth / Robinson, Meeting Street Gallery, Charleston, SC.
2014
* Sara Schneckloth and yMusic, University of South Carolina School of Music, Columbia, SC.
STEAM - An Exhibition for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL.
M(i)(a)cro, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS.
2013
* Sara Schneckloth - Drawings in Residence, Fowler Project Space, Brooklyn, NY.
* Sara Schneckloth - Making Mark, RiverWorks Gallery, Greenville, SC.
Sara Schneckloth and Erin Wiersma, Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY.
South Carolina Biennial, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC.
Defining Territory: Contemporary Drawing, Parkland College, Champaign, IL.
Mediating Drawing, Florida School of the Arts, Palatka, FL.
The Residents, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.
2012
* Structure and Flow, Curfman Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
* Selected Works, Numina Gallery, Princeton, NJ.
Drawing Beyond, Princeton Arts Council, Princeton, NJ.
M(i)(a)cro, New Art Center, Newton, MA.
2011
* Batir des Murs / Parkour, DRAW International, Caylus, France.
* Anxiety Machines, Jones Art Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
* Toward Gesture, Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI.
* Between Mark and Edge, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO.
* Drawing Across Borders, Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
* Nostos, USC Comparative Literature Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
The Build Up, Fowler Arts Collective, Brooklyn, NY.
Multiple Propositions, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN.
Papier Machete, Gallery5, Richmond, VA.
FlexFest, Florida Experimental Film Festival, Gainesville, FL.
Collaborative Creations Showcase, Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia, SC.
What’s Love, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC.
2010
* Surge Protection, Gallery of the Visual Arts, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
* Currents and Flows, Rockford College Gallery, Rockford, IL.
Re: Mark - 2010 Drawing Invitational, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Sovereign Screens, Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia, SC.
Selections from the International Drawing Annual V, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
International Drawing Annual V, Exhibition in Print, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
Sheer Splendor: Davidoff, Pardue, Schneckloth, Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2009
* Open Gestures: Figural Units, FAB Gallery, SC State University, Orangeburg, SC
* Recall Patterns, City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC.
Shades - Drawing the Space, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston - Downtown, Houston, TX.
New American Paintings, Exhibition in Print, Number 82, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA.
Analog Interactivity, Southern California Institute of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
New Directions in Drawing, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC.
Faculty Biennial, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Not Saying, Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
2008
*Open Gestures: (re)Active Drawings, McMaster Gallery, Columbia, SC.
Columbus Biennial, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA.
International Drawing Annual (INDA) Exhibtion in Print, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
Response to Fear, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY.
Remedy, Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL.
Sara Schneckloth & Barbara Campbell Thomas, University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
64 Down - Works on Paper, Five Points Arthouse, San Francisco, CA.
The New American Art Boom, www.artistswanted.org, New York, NY (online featured artist).
Gimme Baby Robots 2008, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL; Vini Gallery, Memphis, TN; Five Points Arthouse, San Francisco, CA; Echo Curio, Los Angeles, CA; IGLOO, Portland, OR; The White Whale, Milwaukee, WI; EVO, Seattle, WA.
2007
Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI.
Sara Schneckloth and Teresa Getty - Tracks and Traces, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI.
Collection, APT Space, Madison, WI.
Pool, APT Space, Madison, WI.
Contessa Says, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI.
2006
* Imagined Biologies, Ray Edwards Gallery, Madison, WI.
* In Haptic Recall, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mosse Humanities Building Gallery, UW-Madison.
* Two Sides to Every Story, UpTop Lounge & Gallery, Madison, WI.
Waterfall, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH.
Visualizing TRANS, The Ironworks, Madison, WI.
Diasporic Art Practices, 734 Gallery, Madison, WI.
Breaking the Habit, Old Convent, Plain, WI.
Gimme Baby Robots II, One Ten Gallery, Madison, WI.
2000 - 2005
* Working from the Reliquary, MA Thesis, Mosse Humanities Building Gallery, UW-Madison.
Paint II, CitiArts Gallery, Madison Municipal Building, Madison, WI.
Gimme Baby Robots, One Ten Gallery, Madison, WI.
I have an idea: Collaborative Ventures at VSC, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
Waterfall, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
Bits and Pieces, Zem Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Soft Serve, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Close Cropped, CAP Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Day of the Dead, Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town.
Memorialization and Reparation, the Unfinished Business of the TRC, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town, South Africa.
Model and Draw, Burning Man Installation, Black Rock City, NV.
Authored Publications
“Mapping the Common Gesture.” TRACEY Journal of Drawing and Visualisation Research, Drawing Research Network (Loughborough, UK: 2019).
“Animating the Bargehouse.” Thinking Through Drawing: We All Draw, Fava, Brew, and Kantrowitz (Eds.), 123 Press and Brew Books (London: 2019).
“Seed for Thought.” Jasper Magazine, Volume 8, Number 1, Muddy Ford Press, (Columbia, SC: 2018).
“The Common Gesture – Drawing in Relation.” Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing, Gronstad, Gustafson, Vagnes (Eds.), Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies, (London: 2016).
“Relational Gestures – Three Experiments in Collaborative Drawing.” Proceedings of the 2013 Drawing Research Network Conference, Columbia University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, http://www.drawing-research-network.org.uk/drn-2013-proceedings-new-york/, (Leicestershire, UK: 2014)
“Drawing at the Hinge.” Manifest International Drawing Annual VI (Cincinnati, OH: 2011).
“Open Gestures,” Visual Communication Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3, Taylor and Francis Group (Philadelphia, PA: 2009).
“Open Gestures: Materiality, Touch, and Embodiment in Drawing,” invited paper, 2009 College Art Association Conference (Los Angeles, CA: 2009).
“Marking Time, Figuring Space: Gesture and the Embodied Moment,” Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 7, No. 3, Sage Publications (London: 2008).
“Speculating on a Nervous Line,” Manifest International Drawing Annual (Cincinnati, OH: 2008).
Discovering Others: A Creative Arts Resource Guide, Juta Press (Cape Town, South Africa: 2004).
“Art and Expression: Balancing Technique and Exploration,” Child and Youth Care, Vol 18, No 8 (Cape Town, South Africa: 2000).
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Michael J. Mungo Graduate Teaching Award, University of South Carolina, 2022.
USC Humanities Collaborative Research Group Grant for (in)Visibility: Aesthetic Dimensions of Perception, co-PI with Dr. Melanie Palomares, 2021 – 2022 and 2022 – 2023.
USC College of Arts and Sciences Research Award for Embodying Place: Charting the Badlands, Years One and Two, Office of the Dean, 2018 – 2019 and 2019 – 2023.
Peter and Bonnie McCausland Fellow of Visual Art and Design in the College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina, 2014 – 2017.
Creative and Performing Arts Research Award for Embodying Place, Office of the Provost, University of South Carolina, 2016 – 2017.
Studios at MASS MoCA Residency, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, May 2016.
Hemera Foundation Mentor, Boulder, CO, 2015 – 2016.
Smelser Vallion Artist Fellowship, Oklahoma State University, Doel Reed Center for the Arts, Taos, New Mexico and Stillwater, Oklahoma, 2015.
Sabbatical Research Leave, University of South Carolina, 2014 – 2015.
Creative Arts Research Award, Office of the Provost for Drawing Biotecture, University of South Carolina, 2013 – 2015.
College of Arts and Sciences Featured Scholar, University of South Carolina, 2013.
Artist in Residence, Fowler Project Space, Brooklyn, New York, 2013.
Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of South Carolina, 2011.
Artist in Residence, DRAW International, Caylus, France, 2011.
Member, US Delegation to China-US Forum on Cultural Relations, National Endowment for the Humanities and President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Berkeley, CA, 2010.
Arts and Humanities Research Award, Office of the Provost, University of South Carolina, 2010 – 2012.
Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts Residency Fellowship, Rabun Gap, GA, 2009.
University of South Carolina Research Opportunity Program Grant, 2008 - 2009.
Overture Center for the Arts Exhibition Grant, Madison, WI, 2007.
Wisconsin Arts Board, Percent for Art Commission, Wisconsin State Crime Lab, 2007.
Wisconsin Arts Board, Percent for Art Mentorship Program Finalist, 2006.
Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2005.
Exhibitions Curated
2022 Ecologies of Drawing: In Situ, Drawing Research Network and Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University, UK.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/design-creative-arts/ecologies-of-drawing-in-situ/
2019 Seed Cultures Archive, online exhibition sponsored by the Research Council of Norway, www.seedcultures.com.
2017 Drawing for Meaning, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
2010 Co-curator, Delineate: Drawing Invitational Exhibition, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
2006 Visualizing TRANS, Visual Culture Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
2005 I have an idea: Collaborative Ventures at VSC, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
2001 African Metamorphosis, Community Arts Project Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
CAP Graduate Exhibition, Baxter Theatre Complex, University of Cape Town.
Beating the Odds, benefit for Community Arts Project, Cape Town, South Africa.
2000 Memorialization and Reparation, the Unfinished Business of the TRC, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town, South Africa.
Questions of Identity, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Professional Positions
2022 - present Professor - Drawing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
2013 - 2022 Associate Professor - Drawing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
2007 - 2013 Assistant Professor - Drawing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
2004 - 2007 Instructor - Drawing, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
2002 - 2003 Arts Consultant - Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town, South Africa.
2000 - 2002 Instructor and Program Coordinator, Community Arts Project, Cape Town, South Africa.
Education
Master of Fine Arts University of Wisconsin-Madison, Painting/Drawing.
Master of Arts University of Wisconsin-Madison, Art
Bachelor of Arts Northwestern University, Political Science.