Stephanie Snyder is the Anne and John Hauberg director and curator of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon. Snyder’s curatorial efforts include: Working History: African American Objects (Winter, 2008); Marko Lulic / Peter Kreider (Fall, 2007, with co-curator Kristan Kennedy); Mona Hatoum (Fall 2005); Sutapa Biswas: Birdsong (Fall, 2006); New Trajectories I and II: Recent Work from the Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles (Spring 2006); and Snapshot Chronicles: the Rise of the American Photo Album (Spring 2005, with co-curator Barbara Levine, traveling).

In addition, Snyder engages in curatorial and cultural projects throughout the region, and is the host of the back room in Portland, Oregon. The back room, founded by Matthew Stadler in 2004, is a symposium replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights. Past guests include: Walid Raad, Marc Joseph, Wayne Koestenbaum, Gore Vidal, Gregory Crewdson, Sutapa Biswas, Joshua Berger, Tiffany Lee Brown, Jon Raymond, and Darius Rejali.

Snyder graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Reed College in 1991, and completed her EdM at Columbia University in 1998, majoring in Art History and Art Education. Upon graduating from Reed, she was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to live and conduct research in Europe. Living in Athens, Greece for several years, Snyder worked with archaeologists at the American School of Classical Studies, conducting extensive visual reconstruction projects of ancient statuary. Snyder is the recent recipient of a 2007 Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Getty Foundation. She is currently finishing her PhD in Art History at the University of London.

A committed educator, Snyder was part of a five-person team that opened the first arts-based public high school in New York City in 1997—the Heritage School—begun in collaboration between the New York City Board of Education and Columbia University. Snyder has taught young people in classrooms and museums throughout New York City, and held a three-year position (1997–99) as an educator and producer in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University before pursuing full-time curatorial work.

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