Biography

Kenny Schachter has been curating contemporary art exhibits in museums and galleries for in excess of 20 years and has taught art history at the graduate level at New York University, The New School for Social Research, and lectured and organized an offsite exhibition for the first graduating class of Columbia University's Masters of Fine Art program. He has lectured internationally, been the recipient of a Rockefeller supported grant, written portions of books published by Springer Wien New York (2006, with Vito Acconci, edited by Cristina Bechtler) and MIT Press (2009, on Paul Thek, edited by Harald Falckenberg), and been profiled in The New York Times Magazine, and London's Observer, Independent and Telegraph. Received planning permission to erect Zaha Hadid's first building in England, situated on Hoxton Square. Kenny deals in international art from impressionism and modernism to the art and design of today. In addition, Kenny Schachter has exhibited his artworks internationally including one-person exhibits at Sandra Gering Gallery in NYC and International 3 in Manchester.