Carolee Schneemann

© Carolee Schneemann/ Artists Rights Soceity (ARS), New York. Photograph and digital image © De…
Carolee Schneemann
© Carolee Schneemann/ Artists Rights Soceity (ARS), New York. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Carolee Schneemann

American photographer, performance artist, and video artist, 1939–2019
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BiographyCarolee Schneemann was known primarily for her performance work that developed in the early 1960s from her experiences with Happenings—improvisational events in public spaces. Gender and the sexuality of the female body have long informed her practice, though Schneemann’s recent prints and photographs present appropriated images of disasters and international conflict with expressionist mark-making.
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  • performance artists
  • photographers
  • artists
  • video artists
  • female
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