| Jenny Snider | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | Yale University |
| Field: | Multi media |
Jenny Snider (born 1944)[1] is an American artist and educator known for her paintings and multimedia pieces. She attended Yale University.[2] She has been influenced by second-wave feminism.
In 1972 her work was included in the Whitney's Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (now the Whitney Biennial).[1] In 1979 she exhibited small crayon drawings at the Hamilton Gallery.[3] In 1980 Snider had an installation of about 300 drawings entitled All Painted. All Black and White. All Dancing at the Artists Space.[4] In 2006 she was awarded the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by Full-Time Faculty for, Queens College, City University of New York.[5] In 2018 the Edward Thorp Gallery held a retrospective of her work Jenny Snider: A Selection of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures from 1970 to the Present.[6] [7] In 2020 her work was included in Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond at the Tang Teaching Museum.[8] In 2021 Snider received a Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award from New York Foundation for the Arts.[9] [10]
Her work is in The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College,[11] the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA),[12] the Walker Art Center,[13] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[1]