Liz Schneider

Liz Schneider

Please Hesitate, 2024
Monotype stop-motion animation and steel
19" x 54" x 17"
Courtesy of the artist

Liz Schneider (b.1993) is a multidisciplinary artist, trained as a printmaker. Schneider was born and raised in Israel to Ukrainian parents and currently lives and works in New York. She received her BFA at Shenkar Multidisciplinary Art School (2021) and her MFA at Columbia University (2025). Her latest solo show was ZVIRI at the Tel Aviv’s artist studios in Tel Aviv, Israel (2023) for which she received the Rabinovich Foundation Visual arts grant. In 2022, Schneider received the Excellence Award in painting named after Miriam Ravia.

I use textures and colors; they are an essential aspect of my work material-wise. I play around with abstract and figurative images, which usually tend to be symbolic. My colors and shapes are usually expressive, and the subjects don’t have a specific identity. For example, a horse is not a particular horse but a representation of the general horse. Sometimes, I study and sketch the subject, but the end result is created from memory or a feeling.

I explore the relationship between humans and nonhumans and the differences between them. I see the human race as the most violent and cruel animal compared to any other species on earth, and I criticize it by giving the spotlight to nonhumans. I believe that it is through the observation of humans and nonhumans, and the ecological changes we create, that we can learn humility. This observation can be used as a mirror for ourselves, and a way to critique our “superiority” as an animal.

I am attracted to painting for its ability to single out a subject over its existing context for interpretation and dissection. Ranging from hidden platform shoes to household items, my subjects are drawn out of their environment to engage with other works from the series to form a collective narrative.