Joan Snyder

b. 1940

American artist Joan Snyder was born in Highland Park, NJ. She received her BA 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. She currently lives and works in New York.

Snyder emerged as a significant figure in the art world during the early 1970s with her expressive ‘stroke paintings’, which reimagined the language of abstract painting. By the late ’70s, Snyder was incorporating symbols and text that added layers of material and meaning to her work. Often described as autobiographical or confessional, her paintings convey stories that blend personal and collective experiences.

Snyder is represented in numerous museum collections, including the 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.

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