Agathe Snow (French pronunciation:[aɡatəsnɔ:]; née Aparru)[1] (born 1976) is an artist based in Long Island, New York. Before moving to Long Island in 2008, she lived and worked in New York City.[2]
Biography
Snow was born in Corsica and moved to New York at age 11.[3][4] As a professional artist, she is entirely self-taught.[2] She works in a variety of media and has collaborated with artists including Alex Arcadia, Rita Ackermann, Michael Portnoy and Emily Sunblad.[5] 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 Manhattan[6] 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.[5]
Snow married artist Dash Snow when he was 18 and she was 23 in 2000.[7] Before Dash Snow died on July 13, 2009, according to his obituary in The New York Times, their marriage had ended in divorce.[1]
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, Ryan McGinley, Lizzi Bougatsos and Dan Colen, among many others.[8][9] "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."[8] 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.[10]
Snow's entry to the 2008 Whitney Biennial, 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.[11]
In 2019 Snow was working with Marianne Vitale on projects including "Double Vision" including paintings and drawings, some made with food items like mustard and coffee grounds.[12][13]
Selected exhibitions
2015
Continuum [solo exhibition], Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York[14]
Stamina [color video installation; with sound, 24hrs], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York[10]
2012
Tout Dit (2D), OHWOW, Los Angeles, California (solo exhibition)[15]
I like it here. Don't you?, Maccarone, New York, New York (solo exhibition)[16]
