Greg Snider is an artist living and working in Vancouver, BC, and Professor Emeritus, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University. His work is primarily sculptural and he has collaborated with theatre, music and dance on stage sets and objects for performance since the 80s. He taught at SFU in the School for the Contemporary Arts from 1981 to 2009. He has received various grants and is represented in a number of public and private collections, and has worked with Square Planet theatre company since its inception.
Contact: gsnider @ telus.net
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education:
1970 M.F.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
1966 B.Sc. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Employment:
2009 Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
2001-2009 Professor, Visual Art, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
1988-2001 Associate Professor, Visual Art, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
1981-1988 Assistant Professor, Visual Art, Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University
Selected Exhibitions:
2012 Models for the Public Sphere: Tar Sands, Aircraft, Holocaust...Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC
2002 GLYPTOMANIA, Bartlett Exhibition and Performance Space, Alexander Centre, Vancouver, BC, Curator: Greg Snider
2002 Concrete Progress, Convocation Mall, SFU, Burnaby, BC, Curator: Greg Snider
1993 Artropolis, Woodwards Building, Vancouver, BC, Curator: Robin Laurence (catalogue)
1993 Driven to Abstraction, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, Curator: Liane Davison
1992 Standard Stoppages, Cathedral Place, Vancouver, BC, Curator: Randall Anderson (catalogue)
1990 Some Detached Houses, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Curator: Bill Jeffries (catalogue)
1990 Mowry Baden, Roland Brener, Greg Snider – Aspects of Movement: Exertion, Labour and Enslavement, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, Curator: Liane Davison
Public Art Commissions:
2015 Concrete text for Triumph of the Technocrat, Reece Terris, 2015, Vancouver, BC
2003-2004 Project for a Public Works Yard, National Street Works Yard, Vancouver, BC, Proposals for Public Art Commissions:
2017 No.5 Road, Anthem Properties, Richmond, BC (shortlist)
2017 The Residences at Brentwood Park South, Thind Properties, Burnaby, BC (shortlist)
2012 Project for Meccanica, Cressey Development, Vancouver, BC (shortlisted)
2009 VANOC: Olympic Village Plaza, Central Library, Mapping and Marking, Georgia Street; Vancouver, BC
2007 SeaTac, RCF Proposal, Seattle, WA
2003 World Trade Centre Memorial Competition, New York, NY
1986 Production of Value, Bank of B.C./Hong Kong, Vancouver, BC (shortlist)
1985 Great Lakes Monumental Sculpture, Canadian Chancery - Arthur Erickson Architects, Washington, D.C. (invitation)
Set Design and Objects for Performance:
2017 Happy Days, Written by Samuel Beckett, Directed by DD Kugler, Studio T, SFU, Woodwards, Vancouver, BC
2015 Endgame, Written by Samuel Beckett, Directed by Gina Stockdale, studio T, SFU, Woodwards, Vancouver, BC
2011 The Alice, Written by Marc Diamond and Penelope Stella, Directed by Penelope Stella, Faye and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, SFU Woodwards, Vancouver, BC
2009 Relâche!, Turning Point Ensemble, Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver, BC
Awards:
2015 Canada Council Project Grant
1999 Canada Council Established Artists Grant
1992 Canada Council 'A' Grant
Collections:
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
City of Vancouver Public Art Collection, Vancouver, BC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Province of British Columbia Art Collection, Victoria, BC
Tofino Botanical Garden and Sculpture Park, Tofino, BC
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC