ZoË Schneider biography

Zoë Schneider is based in Regina, Treaty 4 Territory. Schneider holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan (2018), and a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts (2009). Schneider has exhibited in Regina, Saskatoon, Estevan, Guelph, Mississauga, Lethbridge, and internationally in Denmark, Germany, and the United States.

Schneider works in sculpture, video, and installation to critically examine the complexity of fat identity. She consider topics including the expanding body, the body under restriction and surveillance, obsession in diet culture, the medical industry and the fat body, inherited food values, and societal confusion around food. Expansion, accumulation, restriction, and shrinkage are referenced through material explorations with bread dough, mortar, and silicone. Often the works show manipulation by the hands, implicating materiality with fat embodiment; concrete is dug with fingers, dough is kneaded and formed, mortar is manipulated like sausages.