Bastienne Schmidt (born 1961) is a German artist who works in painting, large-scale drawing and photography. Since 1989, Schmidt has worked as a freelance photojournalist for German and American newspapers and magazines. [1]
Her work deals with the correlation between the imagination and the "significance of environment", by referencing the psychological as well as the physical space around us. [2]
She has exhibited her work at the International Center of Photography, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, among other venues. [2]
Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, [3] the Brooklyn Museum, [4] the Museum of Modern Art, New York, [5] the Victoria and Albert Museum, [6] the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, [7]