Sean Snyder
Born in 1972 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.A.
Lives and works in Kiev & Tokyo.
Education (show/hide)
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 & awards (show/hide)
2007
The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Tel Aviv
, Israël.
Perros Negros, Mexico City, Mexico.
2006
Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Sweden.
ARTE Prize for a European Short Film, Oberhausen, Germany
.
Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Russia.
2004
Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2002
DZ Bank Kunststipendium.
2000-2001
AIAV, Yamaguchi, Japan.
2000
IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden.
1999
Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin, Germany.
1998
Preisträger des Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im Bundesverband.
der Deutschen Industrie e.V, Köln, Germany.
Solo exhibitions (show/hide)
2010
Artists Space, New York, USA.
The Real War, The Israeli center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel.
Brinkmanship, Redcat, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2009
Sean Snyder, Index, Stockholm, Sweden.
Index, Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, U.K.
Sean Snyder, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Sean Snyder, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany.
Sean Snyder, The Front Room - Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis, U.S.A.
2007
Schema (Television), Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Plug In #22 – Sean Snyder, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Holland.
Sean Snyder, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain.
Sean Snyder, Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros, Hungary.
Optics. Compression. Propaganda, Lisson Gallery, London, U.K.
Optics. Compression. Propaganda, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany.
Sean Snyder, National Museum of Contemporary Art, [MNAC], Bucharest, Romania.
2005
Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany.
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
.
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany.
Portikus im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2004
Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria.
De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
2003
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
2002
Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany.
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, DZ Bank Kunststipendium, Berlin, Germany.
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
2000
Statements, with Galerie Neu, ART 31, Basel, Germany.
1999
de Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands.
1998
Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany.
Group exhibitions (show/hide)
2010
La revanche de l’archive photographique, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland.
Producing a Place, Neuer Sachsischer Kunstverein, Dresden, Germany.
Brinkmanship: Park Chan-Kyong and Sean Snyder, Redcat, Los Angeles, USA.
Tutta la memoria del mondo, GAM, Torino, Italy.
2009
For the Use of those who see, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany.
Mamoyguara Opa Mamo Pupe, 31° Panorama da Arte Brasileira 2009, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo , Brazil.
De l’interprétation, Zoo galerie, Nantes, France.
Take the Money and Run, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
All Man-Made, Video screening curated by Kathrin Becker of “Gate 2 Street (Kadena Air Base), Okinawa City, Japan,” 2004, (from “Temporary Occupation” series, 2003 –2004), Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Repeat All, MIS, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Photo Museum, Japan.
Bilderkrieg - 3, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Lisson Presents I, Lisson gallery, London, U.K.
New Acquisitons + Rarely Seen Works, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary.
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland.
2008
Zones of Conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Der Ruhm des Beliebigen, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria.
8 th Panama Biennale, Panama.
Self Storage, CCA, San Francisco, U.S.A.
The Creative Act, Kunstverein Münster, Germany.
Zerbrechliche Schönheit, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Foto Film, Museum Ludwig, Budapest, Hungary.
Shift - electronic arts festival 2008, Dreispitz Basel, Germany.
Islands & Ghettos, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany.
Luca Frei, Marine Hugonnier & Sean Snyder, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria.
Italia Italie Italien Italy wlochy, Museo Arcos, Benevento, Italy.
Yes, No, and Other Options, Art Sheffield 08, U.K.
Jeremy Deller: Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me, Aspen Art Musuem, U.S.A.
Declassified, New Museum, New York, U.S.A.
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada.
ReAsia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
Une saison à Bruxelles, Dependance, Brussels, Belgium.
The Real World, Kunstverien Munich at Ludow 38, New York, U.S.A.
The Ghost in the Machine, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway.
2007
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
Kitakyushu Biennial, Japan.
How Soon Is Now?, LS Foundation, A Coruña, Spain
.
Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA, London, U.K.
Made in Germany, Kunstverein Hannover
.
Door Slamming Festival, Projektraum Alexander Schroeder, Berlin
, Germany.
Shooting Back, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
, Austria.
The Backroom, La Celda Contemporánea, Mexico City & Kadist Foundation, Paris
, France.
Otra De Vaqueros, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
Landschaft (Entfernung), Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
, Germany.
Facts on the Ground, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
, U.S.A.
Petroliana, Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka, Russia.
Faith in Exposure, Netherlands Media Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Last News, Laznia City Art Center, Gdansk
, Poland.
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, Netherlands.
E-Flux Video Rental, Austin and Canary Islands, Istanbul, Turkey.
Stable – the balance of power, Parasite, Hong Kong
.
Crisis Zones, Royal Ontario Museum, Institute for Contemporary Culture
Talk/Show, transit.sk, Bratislava
, Slovakia.
Repeat All, Galeria de Artes Visuales, Centro Cultural Matucana, Santiago de Chile, Chili.
In Medium Media, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2006
Ware Fare, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, U.S.A.
Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM, Karlsruhe
, Germany.
Big City Lab, Art Forum, Berlin
, Germany.
Liminal Spaces/ Grenzraeme, GfZk, Leipzig
, Germany.
VideoZone 3, International Video Art Biennial, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Tel Aviv
, Israël.
5th Busan Biennale, South Korea.
6 th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.
Photo-Trafic, Centre de la photographie, Genève / Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva.
Periferic 7, International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Iasi, Romania.
How to Do Things?..., Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Russia.
40 Jahren Videokunst in Deutschland, Lenbachhaus München , Germany.
Liminal Spaces, Qalandia Checkpoint Road 1, Jerusalem / Ramallah, Israël.
Poor Man’s Expression, Kino Arsenal / Sony Center, Berlin
, Germany.
Visibilities_Between Facts and Fictions, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany.
NowHere Europe - Trans:it. Moving Culture Through Europe. National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania.
Filmen, Castel Sant Elmo, Naples, Italy.
On Mobility, CAC Vilnius, De Appel Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Several Ways Out, or This does not mean that they tell stories, Unge Kustneres Samfund, Oslo, Norway.
2005
Wanaiko, Maejima Art Center, Okinawa, Japan.
9th Istanbul Biennale, Turkey.
At the same time somewhere else, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
In-site_05, San Diego Museum of Art / Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico.
Black Market, 9th Baltic Triennial, CAC, Vilnius / ICA, London, U.K.
Parallel Life, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany.
I really should..., Lisson Gallery, London
, U.K.
La Actualidad Revisada, La Tabacalera, San Sebastian, Spain.
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
, France.
Populism, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania; Kunstverein, Frankfurt /
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Red Rivera Revisited, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Covering the Real, Kunstmuseum Basel, Germany.
Offentlig handling, Lund Konsthall, Scandinavia.
In this colony, Kunstfort Bij,Vijfhuizen, Holland.
Behind Closed Doors, DCA, Dundee, U.K.
2004
Channel Zero, AIAV, Yamaguchi, Japan.
Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Munich
, Germany.
Information and the mythological machine, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, U.K.
Common Property, Werkleitz Biennale, Germany.
Sternet, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Schizorama, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow
.
Changing Land, Nederlands fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Sans Soleil, Galerie Neu, Berlin
, Germany.
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, Mexico.
Public / Private, 2nd Auckland Triennial, New Zealand.
2003
24/7: Wilno - Nueva York (Visa Para), CAC, Vilnius
, Lithuania.
Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy.
Territories, Kunst-Werke, Berlin / Witte de With, Rotterdam /
Malmö konsthall
Boogie-Woogie Wonderland, Ex-Yamaguchi Prefecture authorities office,
Yamaguchi, Japan.
Appropriated Spaces, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
, Germany.
Para>Sites, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Germany.
GNS: Global Navigation System, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
Banane, Galeria Massimo Minini, Brescia (with Manfred Pernice)
, Italy.
Sleep With Me / Universal Studios, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden.
Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.A.
2002
Haunted by Detail, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
site-seeing: disneyfizierung der staedte?, Kunsthaus, Vienna, Austria.
Centre of Attraction, 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary
Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
The Golden Week, Gallery Kodama, Osaka / Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan.
Art in the Home, Yamguchi, Japan.
4th. Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.
2001
Strategies against architecture, Fondazione Teseco, Pisa, Italy.
Tirana Biennale, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania.
Admist concrete, clay and general decay, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.
Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
re: songlines, Halle fuer Kunst, Lueneburg, Germany.
Vi - Intentional Communities, Rooseum, Malmö
, Sweden.
Germania, Palazzo della Papesse, Siena, Italy.
New Settlements, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.
A comme accident, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
2000
No Swimming, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany.
Negociations, Centre Régional d‘Art Contemporain, Sète
, France.
Another Place, Tramway, Glasgow
, U.K.
Deutsche Kunst in Moskau, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
IASPIS Galleriet, Stockholm
, Sweden.
Das Versprechen der Photographie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Gemany.
re: Songlines, halle_für_kunst e.V., Lüneburg, Germany.
1999
Cities on the Move, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland.
A Place Called Lovely, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
, U.S.A.
Change is Good, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
Clues, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Expanded Design, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria.
Ars Viva 98/99 - Installation, Portikus, Frankfurt / Main,
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany.
Ideas for Living, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen, Belgium.
1998
Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany.
Junge Szene, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria.
Manifesta 2, European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Luxemburg.
White Loop, Arkipelag, Sjöhistoriska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.