Dash Snow

Dash Snow
Born	(1981-07-27)July 27, 1981 New York
Died	July 13, 2009(2009-07-13) (aged 27) New York
Nationality	American
Field	Photography Collage Installation
Movement	Graffiti
Influenced by	Nan Goldin Larry Clark

Dashiell "Dash" Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009) was an American artist, based in New York.

Early life and education

Dashiell A. Snow was born in 1981, the son of Taya Thurman and Christopher Snow. He was also a great-grandson of the founders of the Menil Collection in Houston, Dominique de Menil and John de Menil, French aristocrats who were heirs to fortunes based in textiles and oil-drilling equipment (see Schlumberger). His maternal grandfather was Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, father of actress Uma Thurman while his maternal grandmother was set and costume designer Marie-Christophe de Menil. He had a brother named Maxwell and a sister named Caroline.^{[citation needed]} As a child he was rebellious, and at 13 was sent to the Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia, a boarding school specialising in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant disorder.

Career

Snow began taking photographs as a teenager, he said, as a record of places he might not remember the next day.

In 2006, he was included in the Wall Street Journal article titled "The 23-Year Old Masters", which profiled 10 emerging US artists including Rosson Crow, Ryan Trecartin, Zane Lewis, Barney Kulok, Jordan Wolfson, Rashawn Griffin and Keegan McHargue.

Like photographers Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and Ryan McGinley his photos depict scenes of a sex, drug-taking, violence and art-world pretense with candor, documenting the decadent lifestyle of a group of young New York City artists and their social circle.

Some of Snow's later collage-based work was characterized by his practice of using his own semen as a material applied to or splashed across newspaper photographs of police officers and other authority figures.

Exhibitions and collections

Snow exhibited in galleries and museums such as the Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2006 Bienniale, Peres Projects, Contemporary Fine Arts, Deitch Projects, Saatchi Gallery[11], "Babylon"[12] at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and Bergen Kunsthall in Norway and Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark. He is represented by Peres Projects in Berlin and Los Angeles, and Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin. His works are held in the collections of Charles Saatchi, Anita Zabludowicz, and Dakis Joannou, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum.

Personal life

At the age of 18, Snow married Corsican-born artist Agathe Snow. They later split up and divorced. In July 2007, Dash's then-girlfriend, photo magazine editor Jade Berreau, gave birth to their daughter, whom they named Secret Midnight Magic Nico.

Death

Snow died on the evening of July 13, 2009, at Lafayette House, a hotel in lower Manhattan. His grandmother Marie-Christophe de Menil was quoted as saying that he died of a drug overdose. A New York Times article commented that Snow "met a junkie’s end but did so in a $325-a-night hotel room with an antique marble hearth."

External links

• New York Magazine Profile
• The New York Times review.
• Dash Snow Interview in Interview magazine
• Dash Snow on Sgustok Magazine
• Peres Projects, Berlin Los Angeles
• Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
• NYTimes obituary
• Gradient Magazine
• Dash Snow Appearing in Graf Core 2000