Joan Snyder was born on April 16, 1940 in Highland Park, New Jersey. Joan received her A.B from Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1962 and then her M.F.A. from Rutgers University also in New Brunswick, NJ, in 1966. Joan's introduction to the New York art scene began with a series of her "stroke" paintings that were completed in the 1970s. These paintings were the basis for her first solo shows in New York and San Francisco. Joan's painters are often placed under various art movement categories such as Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Expressionism, and Feminist Art but the changing nature of her work combined with her use of personal iconography, female imagery, and aggressive brush stokes have kept her steadily untagged. Throughout her career Joan has received many fellowships, the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983, and in 2007 she received a MacArthur Fellowship. Joan has work in many different collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Guggenheim just to name a few.
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