Marty Schnapf USA, b. 1977

Marty Schnapf is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, drawing, performance, sculpture, and installation. Schnapf’s world evokes an inconstant sensual and psychological space of dream, desire, memory, and premonition. 

 

Born in Evansville, Indiana, he received his BFA from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio in 1999. Schnapf has received solo exhibitions with Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles; PERROTIN, Shanghai; Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles; UNIT LONDON and Alice Black Gallery, both in London, UK. His paintings have been included in group exhibitions with Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles; Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); GAVLAK Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); PLATFORM (2022); and A.MORE, Milan, IT, among others. In Taiwan, he installed a public sculpture at the Soulangh Cultural Park in Tainan City (2018); and he received the 2016 Rema Hort Mann Foundation ACE Grant for “Night Fever,” a sculptural installation in downtown Los Angeles. The artist lives in Highland Park, CA, with his partner, the sculptor Cammie Staros.