JOAN SNYDER

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Biography

Snyder's works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum, The Jewish Museum, The National Gallery, Guggenheim Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, Tate Modern among many others. Her early works were included in the 1973 and 1981 Whitney Biennials and the 1975 Corcoran Biennial. More recent museum exhibitions include Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2018-20), Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, NY (201920), Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Breuer, NY (2016), Dancing with the Dark: Prints by Joan Snyder 1963-2010, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ (2011); and Joan Snyder: A Painting Survey, 19692005, The Jewish Museum, NY (2005).

In 2022, Snyder had two solo exhibitions To Become A Painting, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY and A Perspective, 1968-2017, Frieze New York, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY. She and her daughter had a two person exhibition It’s All Personal, Joan Snyder & Molly Snyder-Fink, Kentler International Drawing Space, NY. Other recent solo exhibitions include Silk & Song, Galerie Haas, Zürich (2021), The Summer Becomes a Room, Canada Gallery, NY (2020), and Rosebuds & Rivers, Blain|Southern, London (2019). Snyder's works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum, The Jewish Museum, The National Gallery, Guggenheim Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, Tate Modern among many others.

Woodstock

In the late 80's I was living full time in Eastport L.I. with Molly, my 8 year old daughter...having recently left my loft on Canal & Mulberry Street. The landscape surrounding our house was perfect for me, bean fields and weed fields...the schools much less than perfect. Maggie Cammer, who lived in the city but also had a glorified log cabin in Willow, came into my life. Took a few years but Molly and I migrated to the cabin in Willow for the summers...with a small out building as a studio...which had no plumbing, no heat and a bit of electricity, a wire!

I loved the deep dark ponds and tall pines (totems) that surrounded the house...and quickly incorporated all of that mystery into my work. It's been many years now...we've loved being here as part of the community and its beauty, the mountains, the sky, the town, the coolness of the mountains.