Sylvia Snowden
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Sylvia Snowden is a black American artist. Snowden received a scholarship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine
and has a certificate from Le Grande Chaumier in Paris, France. She holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Howard University
. At Howard University she studied under David C. Driskell
.
She has taught at Howard University, Cornell and Yale, has served as an artist-in-residence, a panelist, visiting artist, lecturer/instructor and curator in universities, galleries and art schools both in the United States and internationally.
She has exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
, Women’s Museum, Montclair Art Museum
, Baltimore Museum of Art
, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
at Cornell University
, The Phillips Collection, Heckscher Museum of Art
, and the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and National Archives for Black Women's History http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc62.htm. Her works have been shown in Chile, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Australia, the Bahamas, France, Mexico, Italy and Japan. Her 2000 exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
featured work inspired by the death of her son.
Skowhegan, Maine
Skowhegan is the county seat of Somerset County, Maine, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 8,824. Every August, Skowhegan hosts the annual Skowhegan State Fair, the oldest continuous state fair in the United States...
and has a certificate from Le Grande Chaumier in Paris, France. She holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Howard University
Howard University
Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States...
. At Howard University she studied under David C. Driskell
David C. Driskell
David C. Driskell is a scholar in the field of African American art and an artist. Driskell is an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, College Park....
.
She has taught at Howard University, Cornell and Yale, has served as an artist-in-residence, a panelist, visiting artist, lecturer/instructor and curator in universities, galleries and art schools both in the United States and internationally.
She has exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...
, Women’s Museum, Montclair Art Museum
Montclair Art Museum
The Montclair Art Museum is located in Montclair, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.-Collection:The Montclair Art Museum is one of the few museums in the United States devoted to American art and Native American art forms. The collection consists of more than 12,000 works...
, Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, was founded in 1914. Built in the Roman Temple style, the Museum is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 90,000 works...
, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is an art museum located on the northwest corner of the Arts Quad on the main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It is most well known for its distinctive concrete facade, its collection which includes two windows from Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin...
at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, The Phillips Collection, Heckscher Museum of Art
Heckscher Museum of Art
The Heckscher Museum of Art is named after its benefactor, August Heckscher, who in 1920 donated 185 works of art to be housed in a new Beaux-Arts building located in Heckscher Park, in Huntington, New York...
, and the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and National Archives for Black Women's History http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc62.htm. Her works have been shown in Chile, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Australia, the Bahamas, France, Mexico, Italy and Japan. Her 2000 exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...
featured work inspired by the death of her son.
Selected exhibitions
- 2011 Group Exhibition: "Artistic Reflections", Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD
- 2007 Solo Exhibition: “Flowers”, Parish Gallery, Norman Parish, Washington, DC
- 2006 Solo Exhibition: “Venus of M Street”, Parish Gallery, Norman Parish, Washington, DC
- 2005 Solo Exhibition: “ Jessie’s Shields”, Parish Gallery, Norman Parish, Washington, DC
- 2003 Corcoran Gallery of ArtCorcoran Gallery of ArtThe Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...
, "Black is a Color: African American Art," Susan Bader, Washington, D.C. - 2000 Solo Exhibition, "Malik, Farewell 'Till We Meet Again," Jack Cowart, Corcoran Gallery of ArtCorcoran Gallery of ArtThe Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...
, Washington, D.C. - 1997 Solo Exhibition, "Works by Sylvia Snowden," Terrance De Vaux, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas.
- 1995 Solo Exhibition, "Sylvia Snowden: Portraits of Frances," Addison/Ripley Gallery, Christopher Addison, Washington, D.C. (Video)
- 1994 Solo Exhibition, "Sylvia Snowden: The Burns Series", Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C., Margery Goldberg. (Brochure)
- 1994 Solo Exhibition, "Sylvia Snowden - New Paintings", Stephanie Ann Robev Gallery, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland, Nancy Rosnow.
- 1992 Solo Exhibition, "Sylvia Snowden," The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Angela Adams. (Brochure)
- 1992 Solo Exhibition, "New Abstractions", Emerson Gallery, McLean, Virginia. Alice Thorson. (Brochure)
- 1991 National Museum of Women in the ArtsNational Museum of Women in the ArtsThe National Museum of Women in the Arts , located in Washington, D.C. is the only museum solely dedicated to celebrating women’s achievements in the visual, performing, and literary arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay...
, "Works of Distinction, Selected Donations and Loans", Susan Fisher Sterling, Group Exhibition, Washington, D.C. - 1989 Solo Exhibition, "Sylvia Snowden/Paintings '89", Ipomal Galerij, Netherlands.
- 1989 Solo Exhibition, "Paintings by Sylvia Snowden", M. Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
- 1985 Solo Exhibition, "Paintings and Works on Paper", Brody's Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- 1980 Solo Exhibition, "M Street: Part II", 10th Street Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- 1979 Solo Exhibition (Simultaneous) "M Street: Part I", Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C. and Howard University, Washington, D.C.
- 1979 "Emerging Artists", Invitational, Group Exhibition, Washington Projects for the Arts, Walter Hopps, Washington, D.C.
- 1976 Solo Exhibition, Seymore Center for the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. (Catalogue)
- 1975 Solo Exhibition, "Sylvia Snowden: Paintings, Drawing, Collages", University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1972 Solo Exhibition, "Oils By Sylvia Snowden", Coppin State College, Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1972 Solo Exhibition, "Painting - The Figure - Sylvia Snowden", Arena Playhouse, Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1971 Solo Exhibition, "Large Oils by Sylvia Snowden", Jonade Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1970 Solo Exhibition, "Recent Paintings by Sylvia Snowden; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. (Brochure)
- 1969 Solo Exhibition, "Painting and Collage by Snowden", University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland. (Brochure)
- 1968 Solo Exhibition "Abstractions by Sylvia Snowden" Mondawmin Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1965 Solo Exhibitions, "Birds of Prey by Sylvia Snowden," Delaware State College, Dov3r, Delaware (Brochure)
Awards
- Lois M. Jones Award for Recognition, Fondo del Sol Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- Individual Grant, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C., 1989, 1979, 1978.
- Lois Jones Pierre-Noel Award for Water Color.
- Scholarship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. First Place Award for Oil Painting, Skowhegan School.
- First Place Award for Painting, Association of Black Arts/East.