About

Janet M. Schneider

Janet M. Schneider,  Artist/ Curator,

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Janet M. Schneider, artist, curator and arts administrator, has had a long and varied career in the Arts in New York City.

Ms. Schneider is a summa cum laude graduate of Queens College, with a major in Fine Arts. While at Queens College she studied painting with Louis Finklestein, Gabriel Laderman, Rosemary Beck and Harold Bruder among others. She completed special study in Fine Arts at Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute where she studied with Robert D’Arista. She also studied Chinese painting in New York City with C. C, Wang.

Ms. Schneider joined the Prince Street Gallery in 1973.  She held solo exhibitions there in 1974, 1976 and 1981. Her work has also been included in various group shows in the New York City Area. Her most recent work concerns landscapes and seascapes in East Hampton, New York.

Ms. Schneider has been active as a curator for The Queens Museum and various other organizations. Selected collections arranged include: New Images: Figuration in American Painting, 1974; Sons and Others: Women Artists See Men, 1975; Masters of the Brush: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the 14th to the 19 Century (catalog with Leon Chang) 1977; Symcho Moszkowicz: Portrait of the Artist in Postwar Europe, 1978; and Joseph Cornell, Revisited, 1992. She served as Executive Director of the Queens Museum from 1977 to 1989. Ms. Schneider is currently a member of The New York Artists Circle and The Artists Alliance of East Hampton.

 She lives in Flushing and East Hampton with her husband, Michael F. Sperendi.

 for information contact: janschneider@att.net  

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