1970
Born Oakland, California
Currently lives and works in Oakland, California
EDUCATION
1996
BFA Art Studio with emphasis on Photography, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1994
AA Physical Science, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Woman on the Run. SECCA, Winston Salem, North Carolina.
2011
A Sort of Homecoming. LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
Woman on the Run installation. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
2010
Woman on the Run, traveling exhibit. 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky.
Installation. Oakland Underground Film Festival, Oakland, California.
Bordertown, New Frontiers on Main. Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah.
2009
Greta Garbo Sleeps Here. Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
2007
Another Shocking Psychological Thriller, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Monsters, Tache-Levy, Brussels, Belgium
Dulces, Wedel, London, UK
2005
Solos, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
South Side, Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Last Picture Show, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Sculpture and Photographs, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX
2000
Dwellings, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
INSTALLATIONS
2007
Stripmall (Los Angeles), Volta Show, with Tache Levy, Basel, Switzerland
2 window video installation, Martin Margiela Building, Brussels, Belgium
Last House on the Left, Art Brussels, with Tache Levy, Brussels, Belgium
2006
Chinatown, Art Basel, with Studio la Citta, Basel, Switzerland
Volta Show, with Tache Levy, Basel, Switzerland
Ocean & 4th, Scope NY, New York, NY
2005
Edge of Town, Scope Miami, Maimi Beach, Florida
Another Shocking Psychological Thriller, The Comfort, the Beauty, the Shame, Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands
Convenient, Photo NY, New York, NY
City at Night, Photo SF, San Francisco, CA
The City, Brown Bag Contemporary, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, Chicago, IL
Tenement, Art LA, with Brown Bag Contemporary and Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Another Shocking Psychological Thriller, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, Photo NY, Photo SF.
Laredo Motel, Room 4, Scope, New York, NY
Outskirts, Project Space, Art Miami, Berkeley Square Gallery, London, UK
2003
Sculpture/Structure, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
…A Room for the Night (Dwellings), Night Moves, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
London Art Fair. Curated project booth: The Badlands. London, UK
Art Rotterdam, Holland
Staging Space. Y2Y Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Chico and Chang. Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Otherworldly. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Volta 7, Basel, Switzerland
2010
Anonyme Skulpturen. Traveling exhibit, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany.
Small is Beautiful. Sponsored by Theme magazine and Scion, New York, New York.
The House in My Head. Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark.
Pop-Up Magazine. Live stage performance (video), Herbst Theater, San Francisco, CA
Zhujiajiao and Shanghai. Residency and exhibit with Idan Levin and Atsushi Tawa. Shanghai Zendai MOMA
Ten Year Survey. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
Denarrations. Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida.
Achtung Baby. Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, the Netherlands.
Low Blow. Stux Gallery, New York, New York.
2007
There’s No Place Like Here, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA.
XXS-Size Does Matter, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Paulo Post Futurum, Lokaal 01, Museum of Breda, Breda, the Netherlands
Emergent Behavior, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Brown Bag Contemporary, NY
Emergency Room, P.S.1 MOMA, Long Island City, NY
Visual Alchemy, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California.Regeneration, Kentler International Drawing Space; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Greetings from the American Dream, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2006
Searchers, White Box, New York, NY
Fellowship Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
New Code, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy.
Looking Through Walls, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Photosynkyria, Tint Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
Headlands Institute, Marin Headlands, CA
2005
Inaugural Exhibition, Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, NY
The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series at Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Real World, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Blueprints, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
30th Anniversary Art Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2004
Epic, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Domicile, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Tracey Snelling and Jeff McMillan, curated by Hills Snyder, Stray Show, Chicago, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX
2003
Benefit Auction for Big Ballyhoo, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Landing, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Introductions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Sideshow Spectacular, Liminal Gallery, Oakland, CA
Cut, Copy, and Paste, The Art of Contemporary Collage, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2002
New Acquisitions 2002, Microsoft Art Collection, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Inspiring Narratives: A Group Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
2008
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
2005
Kala Fellowship, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Finel Honigman, Ana, “Tracey Snelling Talks to Ana Finel Honigman,” Saatchi Gallery website, March 27, 2007.
2006
Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, “All Politics is Loco,” Miami New Times, December 28, 2006.
Dykstra, Jean, “Indeterminate Yearning,” Art on Paper, March/April 2006.
2005
Tramposch, Emma, “San Francisco,” Art Papers, November/December 2005.
Nelemans, Rebecca, “Beelden van schoonheid en schaamte,” BN de Stem, September 2005.
Whiteside, Amber, “Blueprints at Intersection for the Arts,” Artweek, September 2005.
“Chicago Contemporary,” Art Nexus, June-August 2005.
Moon, Amy, “Tracey Snelling’s Diorama Dramas,” SFGate Culture Blog, July 7, 2005.
Bing, Alison, “E Picks,” SF Gate, May 12, 2005.
Ketenjian, Tania, radio interview for “Sight Unseen,” KALX Berkeley, May 2005.
Helfand, Glen, “Critics’ Picks,” ArtForum.com, April 2005.
Mizota, Sharon, “Diorama Life,” SF Weekly, April 27, 2005.
Windborne, Jamie, “Fan Fare,” San Francisco Observer, April 25, 2005.
Nakamura, Marie-Pierre, Art Actuel, March/April 2005.
Bibeau, Petra, “Long Story Short: Bay Area Exposes Roots,” NY Arts Magazine, March/April 2005.
Du Tan, S.A.,“New!!! Fresh!!! Hot!!!,” Coagula Art Jourmal, #73, March 2005.
Green, Tyler, “Art LA Faves,” Modern Art Notes, ArtsJournal.com , February 2, 2005.
“Photo LA and Art LA”, The Argonaut, January 20, 2005.
Ayers, Rhonda, “Getting the Big Picture,” Rave!, January 21-27, 2005.
Lynch, Mary Ann, “Photo New York,” Camera Arts, December 2004/ January 2005.
2004
Buckner, Clark, “Epic,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 8, 2004.
“Photo New York 2004,” NY Arts Magazine, November/December 2004.
“Snelling’s Picture Show,” Picture Magazine, November/December 2004.
“Goings on Out of Town,” The New Yorker, October 18, 2004.
Whiteside, Amber, “Tracey Snelling Mixes it Up,” Venice Magazine, October 2004.
Ollman, Leah, “Tracey Snelling: Last Picture Show,” Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2004.
“Art Star,”Fugue Magazine, Issue #2, 2004.
Damian, Carol, “Art Miami 2004,” Art Nexus, No. 52, Volume 3, 2004.
“Florida Fairs Heat Up,” ArtNews, March 2004.
“Scope Fair,” Artnewsletter, March 30, 2004.
2003
“Previews,” Art Week, October, 2003.
Gupta, Anjali, “Lilliputian Liaisons,” San Antonio Current, August 28, 2003.
Elzy, Joshua, “Tracey Snelling at Sala Diaz,” VOA Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2003.
Atwell, Wendy Weil, “Tracey Snelling: Sculpture and Photographs,” Art Lies, Issue 40, Fall 2003.
Knudson, Rainey,“Austin Tune-Up/San Antonio Writers and Artists Conference,” GlassTire.com, Aug. 2003.
2001
Stout, Christopher, “Recall,” SanFranciscoArtMagazine.com, December 2001.
1999
“Portfolio,” Photo Metro, May 1999, February 1999.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
West Collection, Pennsylvania
21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Progressive, Cleveland, Ohio
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California
Microsoft Collection, Redmond, Washington