Background
Schorr, Collier was born in 1963 in New York City.
Schorr, Collier was born in 1963 in New York City.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School Visual Arts, New York City.
Her work explores themes such as history, nationality, and war, as well as gender and identity. Among her influences are German and Jewish social history, World World War II, wrestling, Andrew Wyeth and August Sander. Schorr grew up in Queens, New York and studied journalism at the School of Visual Arts.
In the 1980s and the 1990s she also worked actively as an art critic.
Her photography work was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2003 International Center for Photography Triennial. She currently resides in Brooklyn and spends her summers with family in Schwäbisch Gmünd, in Southern Germany.
Schorr considers herself a feminist, though she says: "perhaps, I would not be considered a good feminist by some people, among them ex-students of mine, who might have found me too overbearing, sacrilegious, and not nurturing enough to be a good feminist."
Schorr has been represented by 303 gallery in New York since the early 1990s.