Martha Schnee is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily across silkscreen printmaking, performance, drawing, and sound. She performs with her band/art collective sidebody and co-directs sidebody press. Her work explores sonic landscapes, traces and indexes of memory, speculative creatures, education systems, and the breakdown of language. She is drawn to moments where surfaces tune and speak, where erasure creates new lines, where the speculative becomes a form of truth, and performance becomes a method of inquiry/repair.

Her work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Boston Art Review, The Portland Press Herald, as well as with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.  She has shown work at museums and galleries nationally and internationally, including The Parrish Art Museum (NY), Distillery Gallery (MA), Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin), Aviatrix Gallery (Berlin), Field Projects (NY), Gallery 263 (MA), and more. With sidebody, she has performed at DIY venues across New England, as well as at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Paradise Rock Club, and the 2025 Boston Calling Music Festival.

She received her honors B.A. in American Cultural Studies from Bates College, her Ed.M in Arts in Education from Harvard University, and her MFA in Painting from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts. Currently, she is a Visiting Lecturer in the Studio Foundation and Art Education Departments at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. 

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