Ketzia Schoneberg is a contemporary American artist and classical violinist whose mixed media paintings and drawings are exhibited nationally in galleries and museums. Her feminist autobiographical works combine elements from her active dream life, longstanding meditation practice, personal unconscious and familial background, and they often include mammals who function as avatars of emotion or the expression of an individual or a deity, highlighting concerns about species extinction. Using figurative and abstract elements, the artist investigates movement-based plays of power, the erotic, sensuality and psychospiritual engagement, often in vivid color and with loose mark making. She uses ink, paint, graphite, pastel, wax crayon, grease pencil, charcoal and the written word in her studio practice.
In 2023, Ketzia’s solo exhibit, Here I Am, was shown at the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture in Portland, Oregon, and her solo show, Everything You Need, was exhibited at Gallery 511 at PNCA in Portland in 2022. Schoneberg currently teaches drawing at Lewis & Clark College. She has been a visiting assistant professor at Willamette University and Southern Oregon University and has taught at New Mexico State University. She received her MFA in Visual Studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and did 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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