Joan Snyder

American painter, born 1940

BiographyJoan Snyder was born in Highland Park, New Jersey in 1940 and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Rutgers University's Douglass College. Snyder received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1974, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983, and a Macarthur Fellowship in 2007. Her work is included in numerous public collections and was the subject of a 35-year retrospective at the Jewish Museum in New York in 2005. Snyder’s pioneering style in the 1970s infused emotional abstraction with imagery and text, an approach understood today as Neo-Expressionism. Snyder’s feminist impulse manifests in her images of the female body and references to ancient sources such as the Venus of Willendorf and the Hindu goddess, Kali.

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