Janet M. Schneider

Biography

Janet M. Schneider, artist, curator, and arts administrator, has had a long and varied career in the Arts in New York City.

Ms. Schneider is a summa cum laude graduate of Queens College, with a major in Fine Arts. While at Queens College she studied painting with Louis Finklestein, Gabriel Laderman, Rosemary Beck, and Harold Bruder among others. She completed a special study in Fine Arts at Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute where she studied with Robert D’Arista. She also studied Chinese painting in New York City with C.C. Wang.

Ms. Schneider joined the Prince Street Gallery in 1973.  She held solo exhibitions there in 1974, 1976, and 1981. Her work has also been included in various group shows at the Prince Street Gallery and other venues in New York City and Long Island.

Ms. Schneider has been active as a curator for The Queens Museum and various other organizations. Selected collections arranged include New Images: Figuration in American Painting, 1974; Sons and Others: Women Artists See Men, 1975; Masters of the Brush: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the 14th to the 19 Century (catalog with Leon Chang) 1977; Symcho Moszkowicz: Portrait of the Artist in Postwar Europe, 1978; Joseph Cornell, Revisited, 1992 and Irene Buszko: Flowering Trees of Victorian Richmond Hill, 2019. She served as Executive Director of the Queens Museum from 1977 to 1989.

She lives in Flushing, Queens, and East Hampton, Long Island with her husband, Michael F. Sperendi.

Artist statement

Painting is like a hunt, --a struggle to merge with the muse.

An attempt to draw closer to the form, light, and mood,

To try to hold a thing so fleeting,

And at least to say: I was there!