Dash Snow

About The Artist

Dash Snow was born in 1981 in New York, and the city remained at the center of his life and his artwork until his death in 2009. He was a street kid from his mid-teens, writing graffiti with the IRAK crew and becoming part of a group of artists who would define the post-9-11 art scene in New York: Dan Colen, Ryan McGinley, Hanna Liden, Agathe Snow, Nate Lowman, and others. His output as an artist began with Polaroids of the city and of his friends, and soon expanded to 35mm photography, free zines and posters, neo-Dada psycho-political collage and assemblage sculpture, and finally haunting Super8 films. Across all of these artistic modes,Snow’s anachronistic style and poetic, anti-establishment paranoia provided a bracing connective tissue.

Snow’s artwork was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, as well as in exhibitions at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the MACRO Museum in Rome, the New Museum in New York, and most recently at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and the Staatliche Kusnthalle in Baden-Baden.