Ned Snider (born 1975, Princeton, New Jersey) is a visual artist working across several disciplines including printmaking, painting, writing, and graphic design. The work operates at the intersection of conceptual art, graphic art, and abstraction.
Ned received his BFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, and his MFA in 2D Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He works and lives in New York with his wife, Marina and daughter, Simone.
EDUCATION
2004 MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1999 BFA Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Onward Upward Toward Downward, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY (Solo)
2018 En Masse 2018, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2016 En Masse III, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2016 #, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2015 (Con)Text, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2015 Fusionera, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2015 Recent Work, The Brodsky Gallery, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ (Solo)
2014 Let’s Go Let Go: In Memoriam: Hudson, 33Orchard, New York, NY
2013 Upfront, Feature Inc., New York, NY (Solo)
2013 I Want That Inside Me, Feature Inc., New York, NY
2012 Friend of a Friend, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2012 The Sixth Sense and Other Myths, New York City Industries for the Blind, Brooklyn, NY
2012 The Day on Fire: Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, East Tennessee State University, TN
2012 Restructuring Signs and Symbols, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2012 Fountain Art Fair, Big Deal Arts, 69thRegiment Armory, New York, NY
2012 Here and Everywhere, Spattered Columns, New York, NY
2011 “Proxy Party”, Outdoor Public Art Commission, Critical Massive/HTC, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Where It Takes You, Spattered Columns, New York, NY
2011 ACNY,Spattered Columns, New York, NY
2010 Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Friend of a Friend, Thompson Giroux Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
2010 Single Fare, Werkstatt, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Talk Dirty To Me,Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Juried Summer Thesis Exhibition, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Number, NO. 73Fall 2012, PG. 20
Artlog.com, October 2012
Creative Review (UK), Best of Contemporary Art and Design, November 2004, Pg. 33
ID Magazine, 2004 Interactive Media Design Review, November 2004, Pg. 105
AWARDS
2004 ID Magazine Interactive Media Design Review, Silver Medal, Jurors: Cory Arcangel, Mike Essl
INTENT
People are perpetually seeking resolution to ongoing conflicts within their lives. A ceaseless push and pull; a generally fruitless search for answers to quelling these conflicts definitively.
There are no answers to be found here. Only a collective, metaphorical mirror being hoisted upon these walls.
I’d like to imagine the work being interpreted as a way to find solace through commiseration. While the majority of us may not subscribe to the notion of “beating them”, we invariably “join them” simply as a means of perseverance.
Resignation as an attempt at resolution.
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June 17 2019