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Biography
Agathe Snow ([aɡatə snɔ:]; née Aparru) (born 1976) is an artist based in New York City.
Biography
Snow was born in Corsica and moved to New York at age 11.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 best known endeavours was No Need To Worry, The Apocalypse Has Already Happened… at 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 July 13, 2009, according to his obituary in The New York Times, their marriage had ended in divorce.
Snow's entry to the 2008 Whitney Biennial, held March 9-March 16 at the Park Avenue Armory annex of the biennial, was "Stamina: Gloria Et Patria," a week-long dance-a-thon.
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)