Greg Snider is an artist living and working in Vancouver, BC, and Professor Emeritus, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University. His work since the 70s is primarily sculptural, with a focus on art in the public sphere and the representation of labour. He has built large-scale objects in various media and collaborated with theatre, music and dance on stage sets and objects for performance since the 80s. He taught at SFU in the School for the Contemporary Arts from 1981 to 2009. He has received various grants and is represented in a number of public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada.
Contact: gsnider @ telus.net
CURRICULUM VITAE
b. 1945 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Education:
1970	M.F.A. 	University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA                             
1966       B.Sc. 	University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Employment:
2009	Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
2001-2009	
                Professor, Visual Art, School for the Contemporary Arts, 
                Simon Fraser University
1988-2001	
                Associate Professor, Visual Art School for the Contemporary Arts,                                                                                                 
                Simon Fraser University
1981-1988	
                Assistant Professor, Visual Art, Centre for the Arts, 
                Simon Fraser University
Selected Exhibitions:
2012	Models for the Public Sphere: Tar Sands, Aircraft,
                Holocaust...
                Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC
2002	GLYPTOMANIA, Bartlett Exhibition and Performance Space,        
                Alexander Centre, Vancouver, BC
                Curator: Greg Snider
2002	Concrete Progress, Convocation Mall, SFU, Burnaby, BC
                Curator: Greg Snider
1993	Artropolis, Woodwards Building, Vancouver, BC
                Curator: Robin Laurence (catalogue)
1993	Driven to Abstraction, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
                Curator: Liane Davison
1992	Standard Stoppages, Cathedral Place, Vancouver, BC
                Curator: Randall Anderson (catalogue)
1990	Some Detached Houses, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
                Curator: Bill Jeffries (catalogue)
1990	Mowry Baden, Roland Brener, Greg Snider – 
                Aspects of Movement: Exertion, Labour and Enslavement, 
                Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
                Curator: Liane Davison
Public Art Commissions:
2015	Concrete text for Triumph of the Technocrat, 
                Reece Terris,  Vancouver, BC
2004        Project for a Public Works Yard, National Street Works Yard, 
                 Vancouver, BC
Proposals for Public Art Commissions:
2017 No.5 Road, Anthem Properties, Richmond, BC (shortlist)
2017	The Residences at Brentwood Park South, Thind Properties,
                 Burnaby, BC (shortlist)
2012	Project for Meccanica, Cressey Development, Vancouver, BC    
                (shortlist)
2009	VANOC: Olympic Village Plaza, Central Library, Mapping and Marking,       
                Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC
2007 SeaTac, RCF Proposal, Seattle, WA
2003 World Trade Centre Memorial Competition, New York, NY
1986	Production of Value, Bank of B.C./Hong Kong, Vancouver, BC         
                (shortlist)
1985	Great Lakes Monumental Sculpture, Canadian Chancery, 
                Washington, D.C. 
                Arthur Erickson Architects (invitation)
Set Design and Objects for Performance:
2017	Happy Days, Written by Samuel Beckett, 
                Directed by DD Kugler, Studio T, SFU, Woodwards, 
                Vancouver, BC
2015	Endgame, Written by Samuel Beckett, 
                Directed by Gina Stockdale, studio T, SFU, Woodwards, 
                Vancouver, BC
2011	The Alice, Written by Marc Diamond and Penelope Stella,             
                 Directed by Penelope Stella, 
                 Faye and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, SFU Woodward’s,
                 Vancouver, BC                                                  
2009	Relâche!, Turning Point Ensemble, 
                Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver, BC
Awards:
2015	Canada Council Project Grant
1999	Canada Council Established Artists Grant
1992	Canada Council 'A' Grant
Collections:
		 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
                 Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
                 City of Vancouver Public Art Collection, Vancouver, BC
                 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
                 Province of British Columbia Art Collection, Victoria, BC
                 Tofino Botanical Garden and Sculpture Park, Tofino, BC
                 University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
 
                        