STEFANIE SCHNEIDER lives and works in the High Desert of California and received her MFA in Communication Design from the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany.

Stefanie Schneider's photographic work metaphorically represents certain realities that resemble literary pieces. This is partly achieved through working with chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. The explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Though her images refuse to attach to reality, they keep the elements of dream, desire, truth, and fiction alive.

Stefanie is working on a feature film/art piece titled 29 Palms, CA, that explores and chronicles the dreams and fantasies of a group of individuals living in a trailer community in the Californian desert. Radha Mitchell, Marc Forster, Udo Kier, and Max Sharam, among others, are participants in this project as well.

Stefanie’s work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles.

COLLECTIONS
DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany, Dreyfuss, Basel, Switzerland Schmidt Bank, Regensburg, Germany
Holtzbrinck Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany Sammlung Sander, Berlin, Germany ARTISTS for TICHY - TICHY for ARTISTS, TICHY Ocean Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany Impossible Collection, Vienna, Austria Collection Luc LaRochelle, Montreal, Canada Kunstsammlung Kanton Zug, Switzerland, Bombay Beach Biennale, California, Sir Mark Fehes Haukohl Collection, California, Brooklyn Museum, NY, LACMA, California.

More of Stefanie Schneider’s work may be appreciated at saatchiart and her IG Account. Information about her current work is found at , and on her website.