Mira Schor is a painter and writer living in New York City. Her honors include awards in painting from the Guggenheim and Pollock-Krasner Foundations, and the 1999 College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism. She teaches in the MFA Program of the Fine Arts Department at Parsons The New School for Design and is also affiliated with the MFA in Art Criticism and Writing Program at SVA and the MassArt Low Residency MFA at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.
Schor has written frequently on issues of gender representation and feminist art history, including “Backlash and Appropriation,” a chapter of The Power of Feminist Art, “Patrilineage”, republished in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader edited by Amelia Jones, and “She-Demon Spawn from Hell” & “The ism that dare not speak its name” on M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online.
Schor’s visual work has balanced political concerns with formalist and material passions. Her work has included major periods in which gendered narrative and representation of the body has been featured, but the predominant focus of her work has been representation of language in drawing and paintings.
Her work has been exhibited in NY at the Edward Thorp Gallery, Horodner Romley Gallery, and in group exhibitions including at the Santa Monica Museum, the Armand Hammer Museum, PS 1, The Neuberger Museum, Marianne Boesky Gallery, and the Aldrich Museum. A major painting installation, Sexual Pleasure, was exhibited in the Sheppard Gallery at UNV Reno in 2003. Her visual work and her writings are featured in Art and Feminism (Phaidon 2001), Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History (U. of CA Press 1996), and Johanna Drucker’s Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (U. of Chicago Press, 2005).
Schor is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture and co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism (both from Duke University Press) and of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online at http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/ . She has contributed to the Brooklyn Rail.
She is working on a new collection of her own writings on art and culture to be published by Duke University Press and also is editing The Extreme of the Middle, a collection of writings by the painter Jack Tworkov to be published by Yale University Press in 2009 (both in 2009).
Look for a more comprehensive website at this url in 2008.