BXA Alumna Receives Guggenheim

Carrie Schneider, who earned a BHA (Bachelor of Humanities and Arts) from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, was named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient in the Fine Arts category. The fellowship is awarded to scholars and creators in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities and creative arts.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded fellowships this year to 188 American and Canadian scientists, scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and writers and artists of all kinds. Since its establishment in 1925, the foundation has granted over $400 million in fellowships to over 19,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award and other internationally recognized honors.

Schneider, who studied fine art and psychology at CMU, works as an artist in Brooklyn and Hudson, New York.

Schneider has presented her photographs and videos at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; Galería Alberto Sendros, Buenos Aires; santralistanbul, Istanbul; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Pérez Art Museum Miami; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; The Art Institute of Chicago; and The Kitchen, New York. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times ArtForum, VICE, Modern Painters, and The New Yorker. 

In addition to her Guggenheim Fellowship, Schneider has received a Creative Capital Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.

“I feel so fortunate to be included among the Guggenheim Foundation's 2024 Fellows,” Schneider said. “I'm thrilled and humbled, and I'm looking forward to spending a lot of time in the studio this year.”