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'', July 15, 2009. (born 1976) is an artist based in Long Island, New York. Before moving to Long Island in 2008, she lived and worked in

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Biography

Snow was born in

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and moved to New York at age 11. As a professional artist, she is entirely self-taught. She works in a variety of media and has collaborated with artists including Alex Arcadia,

Rita Ackermann Rita Ackermann (born April 19, 1968) is a Hungarian-born American artist recognized for her abstract paintings that incorporate human forms, primarily focusing on themes of anthropomorphism and femininity. Her works, often depicting women and allu ...

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, and Emily Sunblad.Mary Rinebold
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as a conceit on which to base a five-week performance and gallery-wide installation, including a sculpture of the belly of a beached whale. Snow married artist

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when he was 18 and she was 23 in 2000. Before Dash Snow died on July 13, 2009, according to his obituary in ''

'', their marriage had ended in divorce. In 2005, she staged a 24-hour dance party two blocks away from "

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" in Manhattan which brought together a generation-defining group of artists from New York's downtown creative scene including Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley,

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, and

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, among many others. "I invited all of my friends," Snow told ''Interview'' magazine in 2015. "It was a sense of New York City after 9/11—we don't know what's going to happen, we're all downtown in Manhattan, we might as well have fun." In 2015, on the tenth anniversary of the original event, Snow held a 24-hour dance party at the

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titled ''Stamina'' that featured never-before-seen video footage from the 2005 party that she had edited into a 24-hour-long video, which premiered in real-time over the duration of ''Stamina''. Snow's entry to the 2008

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, held from March 9 to March 16 at the Park Avenue Armory annex of the biennial, was "Stamina: Gloria Et Patria", a week-long dance-a-thon. In 2019 Snow was working with

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on projects including "Double Vision" including paintings and drawings, some made with food items like mustard and coffee grounds.

Selected exhibitions

2015 ''Continuum'' olo exhibition Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York ''Stamina'' olor video installation; with sound, 24hrs Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York 2012 ''Tout Dit (2D)'', OHWOW, Los Angeles, California (solo exhibition) ''I like it here. Don't you?'', Maccarone, New York, New York (solo exhibition)

References

External links

Morán Morán Gallery website
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ArtFacts.net
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NY Magazine
{{DEFAULTSORT:Snow, Agathe 1976 births Living people People from Corsica French emigrants to the United States French artists American installation artists