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

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, Rita Ackermann,

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and Emily Sunblad.Mary Rinebold
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/ref> One of her best known endeavours was ''No Need To Worry, The Apocalypse Has Already Happened…'' at James Fuentes Gallery in 2007, in which Snow took the starting point of a recently flooded

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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

Dash Snow Dashiell A. Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009) was an American artist based in New York City.Roberta Smith"Dash Snow, New York Artist, Dies at 27" '' The New York Times'', July 14, 2009. Snow's photographs included scenes of sex, drugs, viol ...

when he was 18 and she was 23 in 2000. Before Dash Snow died on July 13, 2009, according to his obituary in ''The New York Times'', their marriage had ended in divorce. In 2005, she staged a 24-hour dance party two blocks away from Ground Zero that brought together a generation-defining group of artists from New York's downtown creative scene including Dash Snow,

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, Lizzi Bougatsos 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 Guggenheim 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 An olor is a piece of cowhide or plastic tied onto a male goat like a skirt. It is used by Kenyan goatherders to prevent bucks from impregnating the female goats during times of drought A drought is defined as drier than normal conditions.Douv ...

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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