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Born in 1972 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.A.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany



EDUCATION

1993-1999 Städelschule, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt a.M.
1991-1992 Boston University, MA
1990-1991 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI



GRANTS ANDS AWARDS

2007
The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Tel Aviv
Peros Negros, Mexico City

2006
Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo
ARTE Prize for a European Short Film, Oberhausen, Germany
Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev

2004
Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia

2002
DZ Bank Kunststipendium

2000-2001
AIAV, Yamaguchi, Japan

2000
IASPIS, Stockholm

1999
Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin

1998
Preisträger des Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im Bundesverband
der Deutschen Industrie e.V, Köln


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007
Vanabbemuseum , Eindhoven Hollande
Sean Snyder, National Museum of Contemporary Art, [MNAC], Bucharest, Romania (solo)
8th Panama Biennale
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Kitakyushu- Kokusai Bienniale, Japan
Schema (Television), Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam (solo)
How Soon Is Now?, LS Foundation, A Coruña, Spain
Sean Snyder, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (solo)
Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA, London, UK
Made in Germany, Kunstverein Hannover
Door Slamming Festival, Projektraum Alexander Schroeder, Berlin
Shooting Back, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros, Hungary (solo)
The Backroom, La Celda Contemporánea, Mexico City & Kadist Foundation, Paris
Otra De Vaqueros, UNAM, Mexico City
Landschaft (Entfernung), Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Facts on the Ground, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Plug In #22 – Sean Snyder, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL (solo)
Petroliana, Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka, Russia
Faith in Exposure, Netherlands Media Institute, Amsterdam
Last News, Laznia City Art Center, Gdansk
Models for Tomorrow, The European Kunsthalle, Köln, Germany
This Place is My Place - Begehrte Orte  (Desired Spaces), Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
CORCORAN, Strategies of Confinement in the Age of Biopolitics, Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
E-Flux Video Rental, Austin and Canary Islands, Istanbul, Turquie
Sean Snyder, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Stable – the balance of power, Parasite, Hong Kong
Crisis Zones, Royal Ontario Museum, Institute for Contemporary Culture
Talk/Show, transit.sk, Bratislava
Repeat All, Galeria de Artes Visuales, Centro Cultural Matucana, Santiago de Chile
In Medium Media, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam

2006
Ware Fare, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Big City Lab, Art Forum, Berlin
Liminal Spaces/ Grenzraeme, GfZk, Leipzig
VideoZone 3, International Video Art Biennial, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Tel Aviv
5 th Busan Biennale (cat.)
6 th Gwangju Biennale (cat.)
Photo-Trafic, Centre de la photographie, Genève / Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva
Periferic, 7th, International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Iasi (cat.)
How to Do Things?..., Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev (cat.)
40 Jahren Videokunst in Deutschland, Lenbachhaus München
Liminal Spaces, Qalandia Checkpoint Road 1, Jerusalem / Ramallah (cat.)
Poor Man’s Expression, Kino Arsenal / Sony Center, Berlin
Visibilities_Between Facts and Fictions, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg (cat.)
NowHere Europe - Trans:it. Moving Culture Through Europe, HYPERLINK "http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/instInfo/inst/3104"National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest (cat.)
Filmen, Castel Sant Elmo, Naples (cat.)
On Mobility, CAC Vilnius, De Appel Amsterdam, (cat.)
Several Ways Out, or This does not mean that they tell stories, Unge Kustneres Samfund, Oslo

2005
Wanaiko, Maejima Art Center, Okinawa
9th Istanbul Biennale (cat.)
At the same time somewhere else, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
In-site_05, San Diego Museum of Art / Centro Cultural Tijuana (cat.)
Black Market, 9th Baltic Triennial, CAC, Vilnius / ICA, London (cat.)
Galerie Neu, Berlin (solo)
Parallel Life, Kunstverein Frankfurt (cat.)
I really should..., Lisson Gallery, London
La Actualidad Revisada, La Tabacalera, San Sebastian (cat.)
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (solo)
Populism, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania; Kunstverein, Frankfurt /
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat.)
Red Rivera Revisited, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia (cat.)
Covering the Real, Kunstmuseum Basel (cat.)
Offentlig handling, Lund Konsthall (cat.)
Wiener Secession, Vienna (solo), Austria
Portikus im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt am Main (solo)
In this colony, Kunstfort Bij,Vijfhuizen (cat.)
Behind Closed Doors, DCA, Dundee

2004
Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen (solo)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia (solo)
De Appel, Amsterdam (solo)
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (solo)
Channel Zero, AIAV, Yamaguchi (cat.)
Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Information and the mythological machine, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
Common Property, Werkleitz Biennale (cat.)
Sternet, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam (cat.)
Schizorama, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow
Changing Land, Nederlands fotomuseum, Rotterdam (cat.)
Sans Soleil, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Cómo aprender a amar la bomba y dejar de preocuparse por ella, Cámara
Nacional de la Industria Artística, Mexico City / Guadlahra, la Central de
Arte en WTC, Guadalajara (cat.)
Public / Private, 2nd Auckland Triennial (cat.)

2003
24/7: Wilno - Nueva York (Visa Para), CAC, Vilnius
Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale (cat.)
Territories, Kunst-Werke, Berlin / Witte de With, Rotterdam /
Malmö konsthall (cat.)
Boogie-Woogie Wonderland, Ex-Yamaguchi Prefecture authorities office,
Yamaguchi (cat.)
Appropriated Spaces, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Para>Sites, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe (cat.)
GNS: Global Navigation System, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (cat.)
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
Banane, Galeria Massimo Minini, Brescia (with Manfred Pernice)
Sleep With Me / Universal Studios, Rooseum, Malmö
Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (cat.)

2002
Haunted by Detail, De Appel, Amsterdam (cat.)
site-seeing: disneyfizierung der staedte?, Kunsthaus, Vienna (cat.)
Centre of Attraction, 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary
Art Centre, Vilnius (cat.)
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, DZ Bank Kunststipendium, Berlin (solo / cat.)
The Golden Week, Gallery Kodama, Osaka / Gallery Side 2, Tokyo (cat.)
Galerie Neu, Berlin (solo)
Art in the Home, Yamguchi (cat.)
4th. Gwangju Biennale (cat.)

2001
Strategies against architecture, Fondazione Teseco, Pisa (cat.)
Tirana Biennale, National Gallery, Tirana (cat.)
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (solo)
Admist concrete, clay and general decay, Konstfack, Stockholm
Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (cat.)
re: songlines, Halle fuer Kunst, Lueneburg (cat.)
Vi - Intentional Communities, Rooseum, Malmö
Germania, Palazzo della Papesse, Siena (cat.)
New Settlements, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen

2000
No Swimming, Kunstverein Munich, Munich (cat.)
Negociations, Centre Régional d‘Art Contemporain, Séte
Summer Group Show, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Statements, with Galerie Neu, ART 31, Basel (solo)
Another Place, Tramway, Glasgow
Deutsche Kunst in Moskau, Central House of Artists, Moscow
IASPIS Galleriet, Stockholm
Das Versprechen der Photographie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

1999
Cities on the Move, Kiasma, Helsinki (cat.)
A Place Called Lovely, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
de Vleeshal, Middelburg (solo)
Change is Good, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (cat.)
Clues, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Expanded Design, Salzburger Kunstverein

Ars Viva 98/99 - Installation, Portikus, Frankfurt / Main,
Kunstverein Braunschweig (cat.)
Ideas for Living, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen (cat.)

1998
Galerie Neu, Berlin (solo)
Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale, Berlin (cat.)
Junge Szene, Wiener Secession, Vienna (cat.)
Manifesta 2, European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Luxemburg (cat.)
White Loop, Arkipelag, Sjöhistoriska Museet, Stockholm (cat.)