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Gary Schneider will give the Keynote Address.

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Gary Schneider, born in South Africa in 1954, has a BFA from the University of Cape Town and an MFA from Pratt Institute in New York, where he continues to live. He worked in the theatre of Richard Foreman and Robert Wilson in the 1970’s also making films through the early 1980’s. Schneider began exhibiting photographs in 1991 at PPOW Gallery in New York.

His ‘Genetic Self-Portrait’ installation, completed in 1998 was exhibited in the U.S. at Mass MoCA and The International Center of Photography. It has also been exhibited internationally and received an Eisenstadt award in 2000. In 2004 a survey, ‘Gary Schneider: Portraits’ was mounted at the Sackler Museum, Boston and received an NEA grant. The catalogue was published by Yale University Press and HUAM.

In 2005 he received the Lou Stoumen Award and his book ‘Nudes’ was published by Aperture and they will exhibit the prints in November. Some collections which include his work are: The Whitney Museum, The Guggenheim Museum and The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The National Gallery of Canada; The Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne; The MFA, Boston and The Art Institute of Chicago.