Joan Snyder
b. 1940 · USA
About Joan Snyder
Joan Snyder (born 1940 in Highland Park, New Jersey) is an American painter. She earned an A.B. from Douglass College in 1962 and an M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 1966. Her early stroke paintings arranged repeated painted marks over penciled grids, using abstraction to register process and narrative. By the late 1970s she had moved beyond the grid, adding text and increasingly complex materials.
Snyder’s later paintings layer paint with fabric, paper, flowers, seeds, herbs, and other materials, linking formal experiment to autobiography, feminism, Jewish identity, political violence, grief, and the natural world. She participated in the 1973 and 1981 Whitney Biennials and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007.
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Joan Snyder (born 1940 in Highland Park, New Jersey) is an American painter. She earned an A.B. from Douglass College in 1962 and an M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 1966. Her early stroke paintings arranged repeated painted marks over penciled grids, using abstraction to register process and narrative. By the late 1970s she had moved beyond the grid, adding text and increasingly complex materials.
Snyder’s later paintings layer paint with fabric, paper, flowers, seeds, herbs, and other materials, linking formal experiment to autobiography, feminism, Jewish identity, political violence, grief, and the natural world. She participated in the 1973 and 1981 Whitney Biennials and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007.