Mira Schor

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Full Name	Mira Schor
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Jun 1, 1950(1950-06-01)
Age	74
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

Mira Schor Biography

Mira Schor is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on June 1, 1950 in New York, United States. Mira Schor was born to Polish-born parents, Ilya Schor and Resia Schor. They arrived in the USA in 1941. Mira Schor was raised at the Lycee Francais de New York with Naomi Schor (1943-1981), who is a well-known scholar of French Literature, and Feminist theory. Mira Schor received her Baccalaureat degree in 1967. She then studied art history at New York University (WSC B.A.). 1970). She was an assistant to Mimi Gross and Red Grooms during this period. From 1972-1973 she attended the California Institute of the Arts. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree as a painter from 1973. She was part of the CalArts Feminist Art Program’s famed Womanhouse (1972). She studied with Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro in the Feminist Arts Program. She later studied at CalArts with Stephan Von Huene, a Los Angeles-born sculptor.

Schor has often written on gender representation issues, including “Backlash and Appropriation”, a chapter in The Power of Feminist Art 1994. This historical overview of the Feminist movement was published by Abrams. “Patrilineage”, 2002. Republished in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader edited Amelia Jones. Also, Schor wrote on artists like Ana Mendieta, Mary Kelly, and Ida Applebroog. Schor is also the author of Wet: Painting, Feminism and Art Culture 1997. She was also co-founder and coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Contemporary Art Issues, which published 20 issues between 1986 and 1996. The online version of the journal M/E/A/N/I/NG Online, which was published in 2000, had its final issue. 7 was published in 2016. Duke University Press published M/E/A/N/I/N/G in 2000. Schor’s essentialist views on feminism have been criticised at times. Many of her writings address this issue. Schor’s essays on painting, “Figure/Ground” 2001, are seen as arguing for the importance of painting in a postmedium visual culture.

In 2003, Schor produced a video documentary on her parents’ work, The Tale of the Goldsmith’s Floor, originally created for the 2003 Brown University and differences conference, “The Lure of the Detail”

Mira Schor, Sign, oil on linen, 12″x16″, 2005

Mira Schor, postcard: August 29, 1976. Front, ink and media on rice papers, 6/4″ x 5″, 1976

Mira Schor Net Worth

Mira Schor is one of the richest Painter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mira Schor 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mira Schor, born June 1, 1950, is an American writer, editor, educator, and artist. She is well-known for her critical discourses on painting’s status in contemporary art and culture, as well as feminist art history criticism and criticism.

She was a resident artist at Skowhegan School 1995 and taught at NSCAD, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1974-1978), SUNY Purchase (1983-1985), Sarah Lawrence College (1991-1994), RISD (2000-2000). As an artist/teacher, she has taught at Vermont College and MECA low residency MFA programs. She also taught at School of Visual Arts’ MFA in Art Criticism and Writing Program. She has been teaching in Parsons The New School for Design’s Fine Arts Department for over a decade.

Schor is the co-founder and co-editor, with Susan Bee, of the art journal, M/E/A/N/I/N/G. M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism, was published by Duke University Press in 2000. The archive of the journal was acquired by the Beinecke Library at Yale University in 2007. This respected artist-run editorial project continues at M/E/A/N/I/NG Online

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In 2010 she delivered a lecture called “On Failure and Anonymity” for a collaborative project called #class at Winkleman Gallery in New York.

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Schor’s visual work balances political and theoretical concerns with formalist and material passions. Her work has included major periods in which gendered narrative and representation of the body has been featured, but the predominant focus of her work has been representation of language in drawing and painting. Her paintings have been foregrounded by these various disciplines: by painting, with shows such as “Slow Art: Painting in New York Now,” at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; by feminism, with exhibitions such as “Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s ‘Dinner Party’ in Feminist Art History,” at the Armand Hammer Museum; and by language, with shows such as “Poetry Plastique,” at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York.