Sabrina Gschwandtner

American, born 1977

BiographySabrina Gschwandtner is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work weaves together traditional practices and ideas from contemporary craft with early 20th century film. She is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at several notable institutions like the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Gschwandtner was born in Washington D.C. in 1977 to an Austrian father and American mother. She received a BA with honors in art/semiotics from Brown University, where she studied with media artist Leslie Thornton. She studied video with VALIE EXPORT in Salzburg, Austria, and she received her MFA from Bard College. Gschwandtner has lectured on her artwork and on themes of feminism, handcraft, film, and textiles, and has taught courses in fine art, writing about art, craft theory, and textiles at RISD, Parsons, and New York University. She lived in New York City from 2000 - 2015, and currently lives in California.

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