Kate Schneider
The deep and complex connection she feels to the natural world is the focus of Schneider’s current practice. Photographed around her family’s cottage in Georgian Bay, The Weight of Your Cool Embrace reflects on geological time, the grounding elements of nature, and how the human body and the earth bear different kinds of fragilities.
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Untitled from The Weight of Your Cool Embrace, 2020 [sequence of 5]
Untitled from The Weight of Your Cool Embrace, 2020
Untitled from The Weight of Your Cool Embrace, 2017
Process image from The Weight of Your Cool Embrace, 2018
Untitled from The Weight of Your Cool Embrace, 2020
Untitled from The Weight of Your Cool Embrace, 2021
Kate Schneider (b. 1980, Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist of settler ancestry living in Tkaronto (Toronto). As a life-long resident of the Great Lakes region, her artistic practice considers her personal and ethical relationship to her home and environment during a time of climate crisis.
She has shown works at the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), SoHo Photo (New York), and published in numerous publications, such as the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). Kate was the 2020 awardee of the John Hartman award from the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario.