Joan Snyder is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.
12 Facts About Joan Snyder
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Joan Snyder began more explicitly incorporating symbols and text, as the paintings took on a more complex materiality.
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Joan Snyder reminds us that no matter how modern and civilized we are, art can still be raw, primitive and talismanic.
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Joan Snyder's work awakens all of the things still wild within us.
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Joan Snyder is represented by Canada in New York, NY, Franklin Parrasch Gallery in New York, NY, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Elena Zang Gallery in Woodstock, NY, and Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art in New York, NY.
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Joan Snyder was born on April 16,1940, in Highland Park, New Jersey.
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Joan Snyder received her BA in Sociology, from Douglass College in 1962 and her MFA from Rutgers University in 1966.
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Joan Snyder gave birth to their daughter, Molly, in 1979.
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In 2011, Joan Snyder married her partner of 28 years, Margaret Cammer, a retired New York State Acting Supreme Court Judge and the former NY Deputy Administrative Judge of The New York City Civil Court.
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Joan Snyder describes her processes involving non-art materials as a type of ritual act for the painting.
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Joan Snyder worked alongside artists such as Mary Heilmann, Jennifer Bartlett and Harriet Korman during the 1960s, all of whom were attempting to bring more process into their art making.
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Joan Snyder became a contributing member of Heresies, a Feminist Publication On Art and Politics, alongside artists and critics including Ida Applebroog, Joyce Kozloff, Lucy Lippard, Nina Yankowitz, Joan Braderman, Sue Heinemann and Miriam Schapiro, among many others.