Bio

Resume

Education

Art  Education

2001 – 2005  Art Student League of New York, New York, NY

1998 – 2000   Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Previous Education

1993  Master of Business  Administration, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

1989  Law Degree (JD), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Selected Exhibitions

Permanent Collections

AIMCO @ParkTownePlace, Philadelphia, PA

CubeSmart Headquarters, Berwyn, PA

PriceWaterhouseCooper, Baltimore Headquarters, Baltimore, MD

Raynes Lawn Hehmeyer, Philadelphia, PA

Rhino Investment Partners, West Conshohocken, PA

2022   

Solo Exhibition On the Streets of Philadelphia…NextFab Gallery     

Two-Person exhibition, CFEVA Exhibition at the Sheraton,Philadelphia Downtown (with Daniella Cartier)                            

Group Exhibit, You Are Here, Park Towne Place Gallery,  Philadelphia, PA (Curated by Claire Finnin)   

2021

Group Exhibit, Invitational Sculpture In The Glenn III, Gladwyne, PA ( Curated by Rachel Zimmerman)

Group Exhibit, ArtBar@Sonesta, Philadelphia, PA (Curated by Genevieve Coutroubis)

Solo Exhibit, Drexel University -Technology Office, Philadelphia,PA

2018-2019

CFEVA @ The Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia, PA (ongoing)

Constructing a Body, Inliquid@The Inliquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Light and Language, Inliquid@ParkTownePlace, Philadelphia, PA (May-August)

2017

CFEVA @ The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Spectral Light and Color, Samara Gallery, Houston, TX

Grand Prix Gala, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

2016

Main Line Art Center, Professional Artists Exhibit, Juried by John Shipman

2015

Venturef0rth, Philadelphia, PA 

M Spring Gala Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Simulate/Permeate, InLiquid at Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ

Curated by Mary Salvante and Mat Tomesko

42nd Annual Exhibition, Notre Dame de Namur Academy, Villanova, PA

2014

Art Encounters, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA

Jewels and Treasures, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Juried by Eileen Tognini

41st Annual Exhibition, Notre Dame de Namur Academy, Villanova, PA

2013

Punto y Raya, The Wawa Corporation, Wawa, PA

Curated by Susana Amundarain

Professional Artists’ Exhibit, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

40th Annual Exhibition, Notre Dame de Namur Academy, Villanova, PA

Artist Equity at GoggleWorks, Reading, PA

Curated Lisa Tremper Hanover, Director of the Michener Art Museum

2012

Carpe Diem: Diálogo 365, Art at City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Invitational, Curated by Anabelle Rodriguez-Lawton

Professional Artist Exhibit, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Collaborative 34, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Curated by Francine Shore

2011

Diálogo 365, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA

Curated: Anabelle Rodriguez-Lawton

Following the Line, Art at City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Curated Amie Potsic and Ona Kalstein

ArtPrize 2011, Monroe Mall (Civic Theater), Grand Rapids, MI

Art of the State, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA

Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Dysfunctional Furniture Art In City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Curated Albert LeCoff

Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA

Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania

2010

Window Exhibit, Daffys, Philadelphia, PA

Open Studio Visit, National Museum of Women in the Arts, PA Chapter

2009

Third Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005

Art Student League of New York, New York, NY 

Maria Schneider’s art is characterized by graphic simplicity and conceptual undertones. A native of Madrid, Spain, Schneider studied at The Art Student League in New York, NY, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She is a member of NextFab, a makers-space in Philadelphia, where she works with lasers, LED lighting, and other technologies which she incorporates in her artistic practice. Previously, she completed a Law Degree and an MBA, disciplines that now inform her work.

Drawing and experimentation have always been central to her artistic practice in which she marries art and technology using basic elements of drawing and simple lighting techniques. Her new ventures into photography use layering ideas to create mystical landscapes of color and shape.

Her work is part of several corporate collections – CubeSmart, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AIR Communities, Rhino Investments, Raynes Lawn Hehmeyer, Lincoln Harris, myCIO, as well as private collections. She has exhibited at the Barnes Foundation, Rowan University, Pennsylvania State Museum, Philadelphia City Hall, CFEVA, several Philadelphia downtown galleries, as well as at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI, and Samara Gallery in Houston, TX.