Sandy skoglund biography artist

Sandy Skoglund was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1946. Her family moved around frequently, following the path of her father working in a large multinational corporation. The early years were spent in New England, and then later they moved to California, where Skoglund graduated from high school.

Skoglund studied studio art and art history at Smith College from 1964-68.

As a Junior Year Abroad student to France in 1966-67, Skoglund studied Art History at the Sorbonne and immersed herself in avant-garde cinema, including the French New Wave and Italian NeoRealism that dominated at that time.

Sandy skoglund biography artist

In 1968, upon graduating from college, Skoglund taught art at Batavia Junior High School in Batavia, Illinois, in order to earn the money to pay for graduate school. One year later, in 1969, Skoglund went on to the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where she studied painting, printmaking, filmmaking, and multimedia, receiving her M.A.

in 1971 and her M.F.A. in painting in 1972.

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