Ketzia Schoneberg is a contemporary visual artist, classical violinist and college professor whose mixed media paintings and drawings are exhibited internationally. Her instinctual artworks function as temporal self-portraiture, depicting animals and the female figure within a psychospiritual framework and an expanded notion of species sentience.
In 2025 the artist was awarded a Career Opportunity Grant from the Ford Family Foundation. She has been a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellow and a Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture Artist-in-Residence. Schoneberg's works were included in both the 2025 Artworks Northwest Biennial and the Around Oregon Biennial. Her one-woman show, "Animal Husbandry" opens at the Corinne Woodman Gallery in Corvallis, Oregon in April of 2026.
Schoneberg 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, she was born in Los Angeles, grew up in San Francisco and is currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest. Schoneberg is a lecturer and Studio Head of Drawing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and formerly a visiting assistant professor at Willamette University and Southern Oregon University.
"My mixed media paintings and drawings constitute a temporal self-portraiture, depicting animals and the female figure within a psychospiritual framework and an expanded notion of species sentience. These feminist works combine elements from my active dream life, longstanding meditation & visualization practices, cultural background and familial relationships to create a complex interplay of intimate scenes. I frequently investigate movement-based plays of power, the erotic and sensuality, while offering novel perspectives on the labor of motherhood. Animal imagery functions on several levels in my work. The figures are avatars - the manifestation of an embodied deity or the expression of a person, an emotion, or an idea. They are presented close to one another and to the human characters in an intimate fashion as the friend, the child, the familiar or the lover. I suggest an interrelationship with animals in my work free of customary hierarchies, pointing to our shared sentience, origin, and fate. Using strong, layered mark making and active brush work, I underscore motion as a central concern of my practice. I use paint, wax crayons, grease pencils, colored pencils, charcoal, pastel, graphite and ink on several substrates including Dura-lar, stretched and unstretched canvas, museum board and toned papers." |
Media: Acrylic | Drawing | Mixed Media | Painting
Studio Number: 89
Address: 6305 SE 22nd Ave Portland OR 97202
Community: SE Portland
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible
Email: ketzia@ketzia.com
Website: ketzia.com
Instagram: @ketziaschoneberg
Facebook: @KetziaSchonebergPainter
