Agathe Snow

Agathe Snow
Born
Agathe Apparu

1976 (age 49–50)
Corsica, France
Known forInstallation
Notable workNo Need To Worry, The Apocalypse Has Already Happened...
Spouse
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(m. 2000, divorced)​

Agathe Snow (French pronunciation: [aɡatə snɔ:]; née Aparru) (born 1976) is a French artist based in Long Island, New York. Before moving to Long Island in 2008, she lived and worked in New York City.

Biography

Snow was born in Corsica and moved to New York at age 11. As a professional artist, she is self-taught. She works in a variety of media and has collaborated with artists including Alex Arcadia, Rita Ackermann, Michael Portnoy, and Emily Sunblad. One of her most known endeavours was No Need To Worry, The Apocalypse Has Already Happened… at the James Fuentes Gallery in 2007, in which Snow took the starting point of a recently flooded Manhattan 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.

Snow married artist Dash Snow when he was 18 and she was 23 in 2000. Before Dash Snow died on 13 July 2009, according to his obituary in The New York Times, their marriage had ended in divorce.

In 2005, she staged a 24-hour dance party two blocks away from "Ground Zero" in Manhattan which brought together a group of artists from New York's downtown creative scene including Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, Lizzi Bougatsos, and Dan Colen, among others. "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." In 2015, on the tenth anniversary of the original event, Snow held a 24-hour dance party at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 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.

Snow's entry to the 2008 Whitney Biennial, held from 9 to 16 March at the Park Avenue Armory annex of the biennial, was "Stamina: Gloria Et Patria", a week-long dance-a-thon.

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.

Selected exhibitions

2015

Continuum [solo exhibition], Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Stamina [color video installation; with sound, 24hrs], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York

2012

Tout Dit (2D), OHWOW, Los Angeles, California (solo exhibition)

I like it here. Don't you?, Maccarone, New York, New York (solo exhibition)

References

  1. 1 2 Roberta Smith,"Dash Snow, East Village Artistic Rebel, Dies at 27" Archived 29 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, 15 July 2009.
  2. 1 2 Small, Rachel (18 November 2015). "Agathe Snow's Evolution". Interview Magazine. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Collection online: Agathe Snow". Solomon F. Guggenheim Foundation. Archived from the original on 24 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Agathe Snow on How 9/11 Shaped Her Career, and Why She Left Downtown New York Behind". Artspace. Archived from the original on 24 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  5. 1 2 Mary Rinebold, After the Deluge Archived 2 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, ArtNet.com Archived 21 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "Agathe Snow - No Need To Worry, the Apocalypse Has Already Happened... when it couldn't get any worse, it just got a little better" (PDF). James Fuentes. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 July 2011.
  7. ↑ Levy, Ariel (4 January 2007). "Chasing Dash Snow". New York Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  8. 1 2 Small, Rachel (18 August 2015). "Come Together". Interview Magazine. Archived from the original on 21 August 2015.
  9. ↑ Newell-Hanson, Alice (31 July 2015). "agathe snow's legendary 24-hour dance party returns". i-D. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  10. 1 2 "Stamina". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Archived from the original on 13 November 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  11. ↑ Berwick, Carly (27 February 2008). "The Facebook Biennial". New York Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  12. ↑ McMahon, Katherine (31 July 2019). "Habitat: The Art of the Dinner Party, With New York Art Types Who Use Food to Foster Community". ARTnews. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  13. ↑ "Double Vision: Agathe Snow / Marianne Vitale". Elaine de Kooning House. August 2019. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  14. ↑ "Agathe Snow". www.thejournalinc.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  15. ↑ Dambrot, Shana Nys (January 2013). "January 2013: Agathe Snow @ OHWOW". White Hot Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  16. ↑ Soto, Paul (19 November 2012). "Agathe Snow's Moral Surfaces". Art in America. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.