Ketzia Schoneberg is a contemporary visual artist and art professor whose mixed media paintings and drawings are exhibited nationally in galleries and museums. Her feminist autobiographical works offer novel depiction of the labor of motherhood, and combine elements from her active dream life, longstanding meditation practice, personal unconscious and familial background. Mammals are frequent characters in Schoneberg’s work, functioning as avatars of emotion or the expression of an individual or an idea, or to highlight shared sentience and species extinction. Using figurative and abstract elements, the artist investigates movement-based plays of power, the erotic, sensuality and psychospiritual engagement. She uses ink, acrylic, graphite, pastel, wax crayon, grease pencil, charcoal, the written word and her violin in her studio practice. Schoneberg is a visiting assistant professor at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
The artist’s two most recent solo exhibits are Here I Am, shown at the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture in 2023, and Everything You Need, at Gallery 511 in 2022, both in Portland, OR. She received her MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and completed her undergraduate education at the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University. A fourth generation artist, Schoneberg was born in Los Angeles, grew up in San Francisco and is currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest.
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