Craig Snyder is an educator, visual artist, and experimental filmmaker. He has an MA in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music in NYC, NewFest Film Festival and MIX Film Festival in NYC, Reeling Film Festival in Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Seattle Art Museum, and Seattle International Film Festival.
His peer reviewed writing has been published in Jump Cut.
SELETED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS:
2015 - 2018
Artist-in-Residence @ Englewood
2014
MIX Film Festival, New York, NY – Experimental Film
2012
Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, WA – Experimental Film
2011
The Center, New York, NY – QueerMe, Group Show
2010
Spaceworks, Tacoma, WA – Site Specific Installation
Vinokino Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Finland – Experimental Film
Brooklyn Academy of Music – cinématek, Brooklyn, New York – Experimental Film
NewFest, New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, New York, NY – Experimental Film
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London, UK – Experimental Film
Logsdon 1909 Gallery, Chicago, IL – Desire, Group Show
2009
Reeling Film Festival, Chicago, IL – Experimental Film
2008
Frank Pyle, Seattle, WA – Location and Languish: Boyhood Bedroom circa 1976 – Mixed media installation
2007
Cornish College of Arts, Seattle, WA – Video Installation XMAS is a Four Letter Word
NewFest, New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, New York, NY – Experimental Film
2006
Harbor Gallery, U Mass Boston – Boston, MA – Queer Eye, Group Show
2005
International Festival of Cinema and Technology – 2005 World Tour (New York, Orlando, Sydney, Los Angeles) – Experimental Short Film
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival – Seattle, WA – video installation
Wood Gallery, Vermont College – Montpelier, VT – interactive installation
Ballard Art Walk – Seattle, WA – 9/11 Kaddish, multi-media installation
Wood Gallery, Vermont College – Montpelier, VT – Me.jpg multi media installation with limited edition PowerPoint CD-ROM.
2004
Polvo Art Studio – Chicago. IL – Group Show
University of British Columbia – Vancouver BC – Queering Education, Group Show
Cornish College of the Arts, - Seattle, WA – Faculty Show
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival – Seattle, WA – Experimental Film
Ballard Art Walk – Seattle, WA – Lullaby for Ballard, multi-media installation
2003
Subtropics 15, Miami FL – Experimental Film
Riverside Gallery, Burlington VT - Group Show
SELECTED GUEST LECTURES / JUROR:
2010
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival – Juror
2009
University of Washington, DXARTS –“Visual Cues: Semiotics in Film”
Vermont College, MFA Program – “Lost and Found Rights: Copyright and Fair Use within Appropriation Art Practices”
2008
Vermont College, MFA Program – “Lost and Found Rights: Copyright and Fair Use within Appropriation Art Practices”
PUBLICATIONS:
Snyder, Craig. “Fear and Loathing on Brokeback Mountain”, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. Number 53, Summer 2011.