December 3

5pm-7pm

West Hall 113 and virtual

After graduating from the California Institute of the Arts in 1994, he moved to New York. From 2003 to 2013, Schoolwerth founded and ran Wierd Records, a now legendary institution based out of New York’s Lower East Side that released music by 46 bands and produced over 500 live shows and performance events.

Schoolwerth’s wide-ranging and layered art practice is bound together by a spirit of restless experimentation that often explores how the human body is represented in a constantly mutating world. From minimal and expressionistic reinterpretations of Old Masters paintings to NFTs created from purchased and wildly retooled 3D figures and backdrops, Schoolwerth’s distinct bodies of work are united in their resolve to push the craft of art-making forward with investigations in form and technology. His paintings, sculpture, films, and collages are often created using multi-stepped techniques that weave together different materials and processes, both analogue and digital.

His work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Whitney Museum, New York, among others.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Denver Art Museum; Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont & Derneburg, Germany; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Phoenix Art Museum; Pinault Collection, Paris; Sammlung Boros, Berlin; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and more.