Biography
Upcoming
2024 ANIMA / ANIMUS...LE NOZZE DI ÉROS E PSYCHÉ, Storie Contemporanee, Roma
E NOVERAR LE STELLE AD UNA AD UNA, Liceo Scientifico e Linguistico Ettore Majorana, Roma
Mostra Collettiva, The Isabella Scelsi Foundation, Roma
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Following Your Words, an Homage to Giacinto Scelsi, The Isabella Scelsi Foundation, Rome, Italy
2019 Love Letter to Roma, tra mito e realtà, video projection, MACRO Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2019 Love Letter to Roma, MACRO Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2016 The Dancer Returns Home & Other Stories, Studio Matacotta, Rome, Italy
2014 Echo Art Fair – Central Library, Buffalo, NY
2011 Assenza Presenza, Museo Comunale D’Arte Moderna, Senigallia, Italy
2006 Invisible Realms - Dialogue With A Virtual Prince, Studio Fontaine, Viterbo, Italy
Il Celio in una Settimana, L'Associazione Culturale Celiomatografo, Rome, Italy
2003 The Song of Memory, CIIS, San Francisco, CA
2001 From New York to Athens, Kultur.Raum Im Rosenhaf, Tegernau, Germany
2000 The Song of Memory, Notre Dame College, S Euclid, Ohio
1998 The Song of Memory, Int. Conference for Partnership, Tucson, Arizona
1994 Lavori su Carta, Galleria Dusseldorf / Roma, Rome, Italy
1992 Extremely Urgent, Galleria Miralli, Palazzo Chigi Viterbo, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2023 La Rosa e il Rasoio: NO MGF, Casa del Municipio Roma I Centro, Rome, Italy
2023 Da Cajeta a Circe, Pinacoteca Comunale di Gaeta Antonio Sapone, Gaeta, Italy
2023 La Gabbia e il Volo, Sala del Consiglio Giuseppe Impastato, Rome, Italy
2022 Desierto, Museo del Desierto, Saltillo, Coahuila, México
2022 Lost & Found: a personal vision, Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY and virtually on NYArtistCircle website
2020 Child Brides: il lupo e la bambola, Nuovo Cinema Aquila, Roma, Italy
Night Visions Gallery, Moca Lights, Patchogue, NY
2019 Child Marriage: L'Ombra di Barbablù, Sala Consiliare del Municipio Roma I Centro
2018 MALEfemmina, Teatro l'arbiliuto, Rome, Italy and Casa della Cultura di Villa De Sanctis, Rome, Italy
2017 Arte Bodega, American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, Miami, Fl
Uninhabited Rooms, El Barrio's Artspace PS109, New York, NY
Me My Selfie & I, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY
Epiphany/No Instructions Included, El Barrio's Artspace PS109, New York, NY
2016 Participating in Evolution, Continuun Movement Arts, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
2015 Scope Art Fair, Miami, Florida
2015 Night Collection, The Louvre Museum, Paris, France
2014 Murales per Studio Ra, Studio Ra, Rome, Italy
2011 Foundation Art Fair, New York Armory, New York, NY
Curate NYC, Rush Arts Gallery, topped ranked entries, New York, NY
Non Cercarti Fuori Di Te, Grand Hotel de la Minerve, Rome, Italy
L'Europa/L'Africa, Galleria Ottagoni, Rome, Italy
2008 Pulling Down - Giorno Della Memoria, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
2004 Art in Boxes, Concepto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 International Paper Exhibition, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY & MG Art International, CVB Space, New York, NY
Il Principe Azzurro, Studio D'Ars, Milano, Italy and Galleria 9Colonne
Il Resto del Carlino, Bologna, Italy
2002 ExpoChronos, CMF 40x40, l'altrArte, Rome, Italy
2001 Sothebys on line, New York, NY
2000 Intuitive Absract Painting, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
Generations II, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1999 The Passion of Art, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing Show, Artists Space, New York, NY
1998 Group Show, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, Arizona
1997 Mostra Collettiva sul Bianco, Arrezzoli, Italia
Group Show, Fenix Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
Group Show, Lawrence F Abrahamsen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1996 Pulse Points, Eastern Regional Women's Caucus for Art Juried Exhibition, University Lutheran Church, Cambridge, MA
Art Celebrates Life, Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
1995 La Soglia Estrema: Caravaggio, Galleria Polmone Pulsante, Rome, Italy
II Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo del Comune, Spello, Italy
1994 Artisti a Pordenone, Fiera di Pordenone, Pordenone, Italy
Fiori, Frutta e Ortaggi, Galleria Eralov, Rome, Italy
Exhibition, Jaffe/Baker/Blau Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Vertigo, Darius Gubala Gallery, New York, NY
Ultima Thyle, Centro d'Arte l'Officina di Gorgia, Rome, Italy
1993 Arte Fuori Circuito, Caffè Latino, Rome, Italy
XXI Premio Sulmona, Palazzo dell'Annunziata, Sulmona, Italy
1991 Artisti della Galleria, Galleria Pont des Arts, Rome, Italy
Presenza, Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy
1990 L'idea del Volo, Galleria Tempo Reale, Calcata, Italy
Private/Public Collections
Fondazione Isabella Scelsi, Rome, Italy
Sala 1, Rome, Italy
Pinacoteca Comunale di Gaeta Antonio Sapone, Gaeta, Italy
Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, Arizona, Andrew Rush, David Jaffrey
Carol & Scott Glenn
Lee Ufan Foundation/John Koo
Museo Comunale D’Arte Moderna, Senigallia, Italy
Notre Dame College, South Euclid, Ohio
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Fundación Valparaiso, Almeria, Spain
Studio Fontaine, Viterbo, Italy
Palazzo Chigi, Viterbo, Italy
Isabel Allende, San Rafael, California
Bonita Brindley, Washington DC
Center for Partnership Studies:
Dr. Riane Eisler, Carmel, California
Dr. David Loye, Carmel, California
Abby Garfagnoli, San Francisco, California
Kimberly Miller, New York, New York
Nicoletta Taranta, Rome, Italy
Anna Cugusi, Rome, Italy
Susanna Rotunno, Rome, Italy
Paul Mitchell, Rome, Italy
Gianmaria Ponzi, Viterbo, Italy
Dr. Lucilla Ricottini, Rome, Italy
Guido Fiandra, Rome, Italy
Dr. Gary and Loekie Schwartz
Dr. Franco Weisz, Rome, Italy
Peri Winkler, New York, New York
Cynthia Young, Los Angeles, California
Dr Hans Smit
Reviews and Texts
Penelope MacEwen Article 2 https://www.barbaraschaefer.me/post/another-brilliant-article-by-penelope-macewen
Penelope MacEwen Article 1 https://www.barbaraschaefer.me/post/article-by-penelope-macewen-ma-fine-art-oxford-university--psychology-uel-postgrad-uk
Omen Magazine http://www.theomenmag.com/issues/theomenmag_issue_15.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1HdjV1j6-eTRzuoyR7yvzI_iLzPgSwUuo1KXhwV7nM6epkp39TYGDZRmI (page 79 -89)
Kosmos Journal https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/absence-presence/
Giorgio Bonomi, Il Corpo Solitario, L'autoscatto nella Fotografia Contemporanea, Vol II
On The Issues Magazine, Winter 2012, photo in article by Merle Hoffman
On The Issues Magazine, Winter 2012, photo in article by Corinne A. Carey
Vittoria Biasi, Ruggero Passeri, Assenza Presenza, 2011
Badische Zeitung , 9/14/2001, Freiberg, Germany
Hayden’s Ferry Review, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 12/2000
Riane Eisler, in Tomorrow’s Children, 1999
Riane Eisler, in Sacred Pleasure, 1995
Giorgio De Genova, XXI Premio Sulmona, Catalogue Review, 1993
Emidio De Albertiis, Extremely Urgent, Next, (Italian Art Magazine) 1992
Gianluigi Biagioni Gazzoli, Interview in Q di R, (Magazine of Rome) 1991
Vittoria Biasi, Extremely Urgent, 1992
Education
MFA Interdisciplinary Arts, San Francisco State University, 1983
BA Art Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1976
BFA Studio Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 1975
Awards
2022 Artist-in-Residence, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, Arizona
2021 Artist-in-Residence, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, Arizona
2011 Franklin Furnace
2005 Fundación Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain, artist in residency
2004 Change; Robert Rauschenberg Grant
1997 Artist in Residency, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Taos
1996 Sponsorship of The Song of Memory, The New York Foundation for The Arts,
New York, NY
1995 Sponsorship of The Song of Memory, Center for Partnership Studies, Carmel, CA
Websites
https://www.nyartistscircle.com/artists/barbara-schaefer
http://www.1fmediaproject.net/2011/05/06/worlds-of-white-light-i-mondi-bianchi-della-luce/
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/absence-presence/