JOAN SNYDER
See what a life..., 2010. Etching and woodcut. Paper Size: 24.5 x 42 in. Image Size: 18 x 36 in. Edition of 25
Requiem, 1998. Color lithograph, etching and woodcut on Arches cover white. Paper size: 26 x 20 in. (bleed). Edition of 120
Wild Roses, 2009. Color lithograph, etching, and woodcut. Paper Size: 28 3/8 x 38 3/8 in. (bleed). Edition of 30
My Maggie, 2000. 20.5 x 23.5 in. Lithograph and etching. Edition of 60
Chant/Always, 2016. Etching and woodcut. 32 x 42 in. (bleed). Edition of 20. NFS
Seedcatchers with Ghosts, 2009. Woodcut monoprint. 28 x 38 in. Variable Edition. NFS
B. 1940, HIGHLAND PARK, NEW JERSEY
Joan Snyder received her AB from Douglass College in 1962 and her MFA from Rutgers University in 1966. Snyder has been the recipient of several awards including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1974.
Joan Snyder's work brings together expressionist musings on nature, contemplative text as image, and an outpouring of personal narrative. With each project, she brings a painterly approach to printmaking. Her print, "See what a life..." (2011) uses multi-color soft ground and woodcut to delve into Thoreau's poignant summary of life. In "Wild Roses" (2009), she turns to deep reds and earth tones to evoke passion and loss.
Snyder has exhibited widely with early works included in the 1973 and 1981 Whitney Biennials and the 1975 Corcoran Biennial. In 2006, her work was the subject of a major solo and traveling exhibition Joan Snyder: A Painting Survey, 1969-2005 originating at The Jewish Museum, New York. In 2011, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli curated a retrospective of prints Dancing with the Dark: Prints 1963 – 2010, which traveled from Art Museum at Rutgers University, to The Boston University Art Gallery, the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, and The University of New Mexico Art. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, most notably included in WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, MOCA, Los Angeles (2006-2008); Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, curated by Achim Hochdörfer, Brandhorst Museum, Munich, and mumok, Vienna (2016); Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York (2019-2020); Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum (2020); and Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2018-2020).
Snyder is represented in numerous museum collections, including Art Institute of Chicago; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Harvard Art Museums; The Jewish Museum, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Snyder is represented by Thaddaeus Ropac. Snyder currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY.