The Art of Food: Artist Talk with Chris Antemann

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is pleased to present a talk with Chris Antemann, an Oregon-based artist featured in our new exhibition, "The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation."

Chris Antemann is an American artist known for her contemporary parodies of 18th Century porcelain figurines. Since 2011, she has worked in collaboration with the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, traveling back and forth between Germany and her home in the mountains of Eastern Oregon. During the pandemic, Chris stayed in her US studio, using the technical skills she learned at MEISSEN to build the largest, most complex sculpture to date.

Chris holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Painting from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, Russia and Asia. In 2019 her large-scale installation made with MEISSEN, Forbidden Fruit: Porcelain Sculptor Chris Antemann was shown at the State Hermitage in St Petersburg, Russia, after traveling for four years in Germany and across the US. Her work can be found in many private and public collections, including the Museum of Arts and Design, the 21 C. Hotel Museum, the KAMM Teapot Foundation and the Portland Art Museum. Her artist residencies include the Archie Bray Foundation, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.

A decade of collaboration between Antemann and MEISSEN will be celebrated in an exhibition at the Meissen Porcelain Museum in Meissen, Germany, from July 15, 2022 – February 26, 2023.