Julie Saecker Schneider is a painter/drawer and a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Schneider received her B.S. and M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the United States. She directs the undergraduate program, teaches painting, drawing and senior seminar. She is also a senior critic in the graduate program. In 2000 Schneider completed a residency at the International School of Art in Montecastello di Vibio in Italy, in 2005 a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada., and in 2007 a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Anamakerrig, Ireland. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards.
Her solo exhibitions include Wilmington College, Wilmington OH, Indiana Wesleyan University and Interlochen Center for the Arts, Azeele Gallery in Tampa, FL, Millsaps College, MS, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, VA, Jane Haslem Gallery, and University of Wisconsin. Collections include Indianapolis Museum of Art, Minnesota Museum of Art, Arkansas Arts Center Foundation, Goucher College, MD, Lakeview Museum, IL, and Rutgers University, NJ. Her international exhibition record includes the Tretyokov Gallery in Moscow, ISA Gallery in Montecastello di Vibio, Italy, Sheffield University in England, and the Korean National University of the Arts in Seoul, Korea.
Concerned with recontextualizing myths and the physical description of memory, Schneider works primarily in graphite, creating large tightly crafted drawings of figures and dead roses, her metaphor for memory. The stories draw from many cultures but are primarily Middle Eastern and European in origin. Currently the character and behaviors of the succubae inform the large figurative drawings. Paralleling these works and generated concurrently are the large drawings and porcelain installations of roses.