Sylvia Snowden

Painter and printmaker Sylvia Snowden was born in Raleigh, NC. She studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME; received a certificate from Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France; and a BA and MA from Howard University, Washington, DC.

Snowden exhibited her work nationally at institutions including the Corcoran Gallery of Art (now Corcoran School of the Arts & Design), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Phillips Collection, and National Archives for Black Women's History of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, all in Washington, DC; Montclair Art Museum, NJ; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY.

Snowden's works have been exhibited internationally in Chile, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Australia, the Bahamas, France, Mexico, Italy, and Japan. Snowden lives and maintains her studio practice in Washington, DC.
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