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Martha Schnee is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily across silkscreen printmaking, performance, drawing, and sound. She performs with her band/art collective sidebody and co-directs sidebody press. Her work explores sonic landscapes, traces and indexes of memory, speculative creatures, education systems, and the breakdown of language. She is drawn to moments where surfaces tune and speak, where erasure creates new lines, where the speculative becomes a form of truth, and performance becomes a method of inquiry/repair.

Her work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Portland Press Herald, as well as with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.  She has exhibited at museums and galleries nationally and internationally, including The Parrish Art Museum (NY), Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin), Aviatrix Gallery (Berlin), Field Projects (NY), and Gallery 263 (MA) among others. With sidebody, she has performed at DIY venues across New England, as well as at the Institute of Contemporary Art  Boston, the Paradise Rock Club, and the Boston Calling Music Festival.

She was awarded a residency at Vermont Studio Center, was a 2019-2020 recipient of the Leadership in Education Award from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the 2022 and 2023 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from Harvard University. She received her honors B.A. in American Cultural Studies from Bates College, Ed.M in Arts in Education from Harvard University, and MFA in Painting at Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts. She lives and works in Somerville, MA.