Schaffner co-authored the publication Deep Storage[4] which was a major international survey of 50 contemporary artists representing issues and images of collecting, storage, and archiving. Other exhibitions include Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, More ...[5] on collecting, Richard Tuttle, In Parts, 1998-2001, and The Photogenic: Photography Through its Metaphor. She has numerous publications on 20th-century art, art reviews in Artforum, and catalog essays.
In 2023, Schaffner joined Hauser & Wirth as curatorial senior director, based in Los Angeles.[9]
Bibliography
Philbrick, Jane. (1993) The return of the Cadavre exquis. Drawing Center. ISBN0-942324-06-4
Nauman, Bruce; Jill Snyder; and Ingrid Schaffner. (1997) Bruce Nauman, 1985-1996 : drawings, prints, and related works. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. ISBN1-888332-05-0
Schaffner, Ingrid; Matthias Winzen; Geoffrey Batchen; and Hubertus Gassner. (1998) Deep storage : collecting, storing, and archiving in art. Prestel. ISBN3-7913-1920-5
Schaffner, Ingrid; Melissa E Feldman. (2001) About the Bayberry bush. Parrish Art Museum. ISBN0-943526-48-5
Bernstein, Charles; Richard Tuttle; and Ingrid Schaffner. (2001) Richard Tuttle, in parts, 1998-2001. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. ISBN0-88454-098-7
Morris, Catherine; and Ingrid Schaffner. (2002) Gloria: another look at feminist art of the 1970s. White Columns.
Schaffner, Ingrid. (2002) Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus: the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN1-56898-359-X
Schaffner, Ingrid. (2003) The essential Man Ray. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN0-8109-5831-7
Schaffner, Ingrid. (2003) Memoir of an art gallery. MFA Publications. ISBN0-87846-653-3
Apfelbaum, Polly; Claudia Gould; and Ingrid Schaffner. (2003) Polly Apfelbaum : Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 3-July 27, 2003. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. ISBN0-88454-103-7
Andrade, Edna; Debra Bricker Balken; and Ingrid Schaffner. (2003) Edna Andrade : optical paintings, 1963-1986. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. ISBN0-88454-101-0
Schaffner, Ingrid. (2004) Trials and turbulence : Pepón Osorio, an artist in residence at DHS. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
List, Larry; Ingrid Schaffner (introduction). (2005) The imagery of chess revisited. Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. ISBN0-8076-1555-2[12]
Herrera, Arturo; Friedrich Meschede; and Ingrid Schaffner. (2005) Arturo Herrera : 7 Abril-19 Xuño de 2005. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea : Xunta de Galicia. ISBN84-453-4109-X
Marincola, Paula (editor). (2006) What makes a great exhibition? Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage. ISBN0-9708346-1-6
Schaffner, Ingrid; Jess; John Ashbery; and Lisa Jarnot. (2007) Jess: to and from the printed page. Independent Curators International. ISBN978-0-916365-75-2
Neff, Eileen; Patrick T Murphy; and Ingrid Schaffner. (2007) Eileen Neff : between us. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. ISBN978-0-88454-111-0
Schaffner, Ingrid. Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a crazy world), Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania and Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
Schaffner, Ingrid. Queer Voice, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2010.
Schaffner, Ingrid. Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
Schaffner, Ingrid. Louise Fishman, ed. Helaine Posner. New York: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College; Philadelphia: Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2016.
Schaffner, Ingrid with Liz Park. Carnegie International, 57th edition, 2018: the guide. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Art and Distributed Art Publishers, 2018. ISBN9780880390637
Schaffner, Ingrid with Liz Park. Dispatch: CI57-2018. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Art, 2019. ISBN9780880390644