Schloss studied at the
Bank Street College of Education, the
Art Students League of New York, and
Parsons School of Design and graduated from
New York University. Schloss started her career in the galleries of
SoHo, Manhattan and the
Lower East Side of Manhattan as a painter and performance artist who performed and showed her work in the U.S., Europe and Asia at venues such as the
Franklin Furnace,
Betty Parsons Gallery,
Bykert Gallery,
ABC No Rio, Construction Company, Max Hutchinson Gallery, Lenbachhaus Galeria in
Munich, La Nuit Parcourt La Ceil in Belgium, Cafe Einstein in Berlin,
The Kitchen and the
Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She taught in the MFA
Computer Arts department at the
School of Visual Arts. In subsequent years she performed her media opera
A.E.BLA BLA BLA at
Ars Electronica in Austria and was a featured guest on
Willoughby Sharp's ''Downtown '86'' show, which showcased 1980s performers, artists and musicians in the year 1986. Additionally, during the 1980s, she began to get noticed for her
sound poetry work, mostly for the
audio art piece
How She Sees It By Her. Schloss' sound work is included in two publications and anthologies,
Just Another Asshole a short-lived
no wave art/music/sound art magazine publication published by
Glenn Branca and
Barbara Ess and "Text-Sound Texts" Edited by
Richard Kostelanetz. Schloss was awarded an 8mm camera from Canon to experiment with 8mm video. With the camera, she created the travelogue video
Sun Daze Away, which showed at
Central Park's Summer stage and at various venues in Europe and Asia. In 1990 Schloss directed and produced the video documentary
FromKepler2Cyberspace, with Hi8 equipment loans from
Sony. This document featured the pioneers of
virtual reality, including Dr.
Marvin Minsky,
John Perry Barlow,
Timothy Leary,
William Gibson and
Jaron Lanier. During the same period, Schloss filmed a series of interviews with
John Cage and included those interviews in a series entitled
Windows of Chance/Change.
Nickelodeon, because of her video work and art in dealing with the
alphabet and children, hired Schloss in 1989 to direct and produce 15 live video excerpts for the animated TV series
Eureeka's Castle, which won a
Cable ACE Award. In the 1990s Schloss continued her work with new forms of art and media. She exhibited her electronic work
Marbelize at the international digital and technology show at ISEA, in
Rotterdam and showed multimedia work on the
digital art, radio and an internet program called ArtNetWeb PORT: Navigating Digital Culture at
MIT List Visual Arts Center in 1997. Schloss received various grants, awards and residencies from The
Experimental Television Center, Creative Artists Public Service Grant,
New York Foundation for the Arts,
Harvestworks, Allied Productions and the
Ford Foundation. She is on the board of Art & Sciences Collaborations Inc, and her work is in the collections of the
Fales Library Downtown Collection,
AT&T,
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the
53rd Street Library Donnell Library in New York City. The New York Underground Museum documents her entire work. Schloss lives in New York City. == Exhibitions, screenings, films and performances ==