Ketzia Schoneberg is a contemporary visual artist, classical violinist and professor whose mixed media paintings and drawings are exhibited in galleries and museums nationally. Her feminist autobiographical works offer novel depiction of the labor of motherhood and the complexities of interspecies and intersentient engagement, combining elements from her active dream life, longstanding meditation / visualization practice, personal unconscious and cultural background.
Birds and mammals are frequent characters in Schoneberg’s work, functioning as avatars of emotion, the expression of an individual or an idea, or to highlight shared sentience and species extinction. Using figurative and abstract elements, the artist investigates movement-based plays of power, the erotic, sensuality and psychospiritual engagement. She uses ink, acrylic, graphite, pastel, wax crayon, grease pencil, charcoal, the written word and her violin in her studio practice.
In 2025 the artist was selected as a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellow and she was a Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture Artist-in-Residence. Her one-woman show at the Corinne Woodman Gallery in Corvallis, Oregon will open in April of 2026. The artist received her MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2023 and completed her undergraduate education at the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University. A fourth-generation artist, Ketzia was born in Los Angeles, grew up in San Francisco and is currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest. She is a visiting assistant professor at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and formerly taught at Willamette University and Southern Oregon University.
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