Born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1979, Carrie Schneider earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Upon graduating, Carrie attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently on a Fulbright Fellowship to the Kuvataideakatemia (Academy of Fine Arts) in Helsinki, Finland.