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Lara Schnitger (born 1969 in Haarlem, Netherlands) is an Dutch-American sculptor, living and working in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Schnitger studied at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) from 1987 to 1991 and spent a year on a residency at the Kitakyushu Centre for Contemporary Art in southern Japan.

Schnitger works in knitted and sewn textile sculptures, videos and photographs, and has produced a book about art created from mundane materials such as fabric, titled Lara Schnitger: Fragile Kingdom.

Schnitger’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums such as Magasin 3 in Stockholm, the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Kunstwerke in Berlin, the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, The Power Plant in Toronto, and The Royal Academy in London. She has participated in the Liverpool Biennial in 1999 and the Shanghai Biennial in 2002. She is represented by Anton Kern in New York as well as by Galerie Gebr. Lehmann in Dresden and Berlin.

Solo exhibitions (selected)

* 1996 Anton Kern Gallery (New York, NY)
* 1997 University of Buffalo Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY)
* 2001 Basel Art Fair (Basel)
* 2001 Santa Monica Museum of Art (Santa Monica, USA)
* 2002 Chinese European Art Center (Xiamen)
* 2003 Sprengel-Museum (Hannover)
* 2005 Magasin 3 Kunsthall Stockholm
* 2005 Armand Hammer Museum of Art (Los Angeles)
* 2006 Nationalmuseum für Kunst, Architektur und Design (Oslo)
* 2006 Royal Academy of Arts (London)
* 2008 Galerie Gebr. Lehmann (Berlin)

Group exhibitions (selected)

* 1995 Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam)
* 1999 Liverpool Bienniale
* 2000 Kunsthalle Basel
* 2002 Shanghai Biennale
* 2002 P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (New York)
* 2007 Nationalmuseum (Oslo)

Public collections

* Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
* The Saatchi Gallery in London

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