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Joan Snyder

American

BiographyPainter and printmaker Joan Snyder, born in Highland Park, New Jersey in 1940, has gone through a variety of subject matter in her career, all in an Expressionist*, highly personal vein. In the 1960s, she painted landscapes and portraits; in the 1970s, abstract, gestural* work evolving to feminist* subject matter; the 1980s, autobiographical subject matter and concern for the children of the world. Snyder often incorporates three-dimensional, collaged* elements like cloth and even straw in her painting, and uses items for symbolic imagery related to women's consciousness raising such as valentines, cheesecloth, and chickenwire.

Snyder earned her B.A. degree in 1962 from Douglass College of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and an M.F.A. degree in 1966 also from Rutgers. She married a photographer, and she and her husband moved to Martins Creek, Pennsylvania in 1974. Later she returned to New York City to live in a loft with her daughter.

In 1971, she had feminist consciousness-raising exhibitions of women's artwork in the library at Rutgers, where the faculty was all male. Discussions were organized around the work and drew large crowds of people, much to her satisfaction.

Snyder has taught at:

Rutgers, The State University (Upward Bound Project), Rutgers, NJ;
Ferkauf Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Yeshiva University, New York City, NY;
State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY;
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;
Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT;
Yale University, New Haven, CT;
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;
University of California, Irvine, CA;
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA;
Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA;
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA;
Wake Forest University, Wake Forest, NC;
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY;
Bard College MFA program, Poughkeepsie, NY;
Rutgers University MFA Program, New Brunswick, NJ;
Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia;
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, New York, NY

The artist has received the following awards:

1994 International Association of Art Critics, First prize for the best regional exhibition:
"Joan Snyder," exhibition at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA;
New York Magazine year-end awards for best exhibitions, selected by Mark Stevens:
"Joan Snyder," organized by Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum, at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY.
1983 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1974 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

The artist's most recent one-person exhibitions, from 1990 to 2002, include:

2002 "The Nature of Things", Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 "In Love with Paint", Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY
2001 "Primary Fields," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "Joan Snyder: Paintings and Works on Paper", Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2000 "Kaddish / Requiem", The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA
2000 "In Times of Great Disorder," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 "Joan Snyder: Works on Paper," part of the ongoing series "Working in Brooklyn," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
1998 "Joan Snyder New Paintings" Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1997 "Paintings," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 "Paintings 1995 - 1996," Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1996 "Joan Snyder: New Works on Paper", The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
1996 "Joan Snyder, New Monoprints", Quartet Editions, New York, NY
1995 "Joan Snyder New Paintings," Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1994 "Joan Snyder Works with Paper," Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1994 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 "Joan Snyder-Painter: 1969 to Now," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1993 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 "Joan Snyder Works with Paper," Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1993 "Monoprints for AIDS Portfolio", Fine Arts Works Center, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA
1992 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1991 Ann Jaffe Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
1991 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1990 "Joan Snyder, Monotype Project 1988-89," Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

Recent reviews from 1990 to 2002 include:

Cohen, Terry. "Narratives: Joan Snyder and Rena Bransten, "Artweek, June 1993.
Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review: Joan Snyder," The New York Times, May 3, 1996.
Cotter, Holland. "Contemporary Surfaces," The New York Times, August 7, 1992.
Cotter, Holland. "Joan Snyder," Art in America, October 1990.
Diehl, Carol. "Nests, Wounds, and Blossoms", Art in America, February, 2002
Dilorio, Marisa. "An interview with Joan Snyder," O: A Journal of Art, May 1991.
Freda, Elise Andkjar. "Passion in Paint: A Profile of Willow's Joan Snyder," The Visual ARats/ARTSEEN, Art in the Valley, Autumn 1996.
Gardner, Paul. "Studio Visits: Pleasure, Pain & Protocol," ART News, March 1996.
Giuliano, Charles. "PC Free," The Improper Bostonian, April 27, 1994.
Grove, Nancy. Art and Antiques, April 1990.
Hackett, Regina. "Seattle Exhibit Art Fair's Best," Seattle Post-Intelligence, February 6, 1993.
Harris, Susan. "Joan Snyder and Jessica Stockholder," Art Press, April 1994.
Hess, Elizabeth. "Fem Fatale," The Village Voice, January 25, 1994.
Hirsch, Faye. "Working Proof: Joan Snyder", Art on Paper, Vol. 6, No. 3, Jan-Feb 2002
Horowitz, Stash. "A Room of Her Own," The Back Bay Courant, February 6, 1996.
Jones, Bill. "Joan Snyder," Arts, Summer, 1990.
Heatley, Shana, Schneider, Jacqueline and Simms, Patricia. "Joan Snyder: My Work is About My Life," Art X, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY. Inaugural Issue, Winter 1995.
Kimmelman, Michael. "Joan Snyder and Jessica Stockholder," The New York Times, February 4, 1994.
Klein, Mason "Joan Snyder: Hirschl & Adler Modern," Artforum, October, 1998.
Levin, Kim. "Joan Snyder / Jessica Stockholder," The Village Voice, February 1, 1994.
Maniaci, Cara. "A quintet of artistic expression," The Tufts Daily, January 31, 1996.
McQuaid, Cate. "A wealth of art from women," The Boston Globe, February 1, 1996.
McQuaid, Cate. "Apocalyptic Art," South End News, July 25-31,1991.
Murdock, Robert M. "Joan Snyder New Paintings and Joan Snyder Works on Paper," Review: the critical state of visual art in New York, May 1, 1998.
Pacheco, Patrick. "The New Faith in Painting," Art and Antiques, April, 1991.
Parks, Addison. "Art Weighted with Emotion," The Christian Science Monitor, November 15, 1990.
Perl, Jed. "Abstract Matters," The New Republic, June 10, 1996.
Perl, Jed. "Getting Emotional," New Criterion, February 1993.
Perl, Jed. "Mixed Media," ed. by Jed Perl, New Criterion, April, 1990.
Ratcliff, Carter. "Notes on Line," Art in America, June, 1990.
Smith, Roberta. "Joan Snyder," The New York Times, February 23, 1990.
Snyder, Joan. "Passages," incl. in "Artist on Their Art," Modern Painters, Autumn, 1991.
Stapen, Nancy. "Images from the unconscious," The Boston Globe, October 25,1991.
Stapen, Nancy. "Passion Fuels 'Nuclear Solstice'," The Boston Globe, July 5, 1991.
Stapen, Nancy. "Abstract is Back," The Boston Herald, April 5, 1990.
Stapen, Nancy. "The Emotion-packed paintings of Joan Snyder," The Boston Globe, April 22, 1994.
Temin, Christine. "Abstraction puts on a new face in the 80's," The Boston Globe, March 23, 1990.

Sources:

Jules and Nancy Heller, North American Women Artists of the 20th Century

Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, American Women Artists

internet: http://www.nielsengallery.com/db/Snyder/bio.html

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