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2026

Under the Influence: Joan Snyder on Alexej von Jawlensky, Laurie Anderson, and More. Artforum

Joan Snyder & Rachel Cusk in conversation, moderated by Lauren Elkin. Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Joan Snyder Interview by Katy Hessel, The Great Women Artists Podcast

2025

Joan Snyder Interview by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament. Talk Art podcast

Miranda Boulton Talks With Joan Snyder. Turps Magazine

Joan Snyder: Thaddaeus Ropac. Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Artforum

Joan Snyder’s Abstract Landscapes Dismantle Expectations. Ellen Mara De Wachter, Frieze

Joan Snyder by Kendall DeBoer. BOMB

2024

Body & Soul’: Six Decades of Joan Snyder’s Transformative Abstraction. Ana Novi, Whitewall

At 84, Joan Snyder Keeps Creating Bold New Work. Devorah Lauter, Artnet

Joan Snyder on her first blue-chip show, roses, and the glass ceiling. Anny Shaw, The Art Newspaper

At 84, Joan Snyder Is Still Energized by Her Bold Feminist Painting. Gabrielle Schwarz, Artsy

Joan Snyder: ‘I started to believe that there is a female sensibility’. Caroline Roux, Financial Times

Joan Snyder hates art openings and hates going out. Rose Courteau, Plaster

Even Joan Snyder Is Surprised That She’s Still Painting at 84: ‘I Mean, Who Does That?’. Ella Martin-Gachot, Cultured

Painting the Roses Red. Barry Schwabsky, Art in America

The Passions of Joan Snyder. Faye Hirsch, Hyperallergic

Work of the Week: ‘Trio’ by Joan Snyder. Katya Kazakina, Artnet

Joan Snyder’s brilliant command of Chaos. Abshalom Jac Lahav, Two Coats of Paint

The Approval Matrix: Week of January 15, 2024. Dominique Pariso and Chris Stanton, New York Magazine

Canada Gallery Showcases Joan Snyder’s Vibrant, if Not Eye-Searing, Maximalism. David Hiroshi Jager, The New York Sun

Here Are the 11 Must-See Exhibitions Opening in New York This January. Julia Halperin, Cultured

8 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See in 2024. Jerry Saltz, Vulture

2022

Painting in New York: 1971-83. Ksenia Soboleva, The Brooklyn Rail

Joan Snyder: Franklin Parrasch. Donald Kuspit, Artforum

Joan Snyder: To Become a Painting. Norman Kleeblatt, The Brooklyn Rail

2021

Joan Snyder Zooms with the Zimmerli. Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Woodstock Masters: Joan Snyder interviewed by Franklin Parrasch. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY

2020

Joan Snyder: The Summer Becomes a Room. William Corwin, The Brooklyn Rail

Joan Snyder: Painting from the inside out. Jason, Andrew, Two Coats of Paint

Ablaze With Art: Thriving Galleries in Lower Manhattan. Will Heinrich, The New York Times

NYC-ARTS Choice: Joan Snyder’s ‘Smashed Strokes Hope’.  NYC-ARTS

2019

A Conversation with Joan Snyder and Molly Snyder-Fink. Goetemann Artist Residency, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA

Joan Snyder: Rosebuds & Rivers review. Rosemary Waugh, Timeout London

2018   

At the Met Museum, an Abstract Show that Falls Short of Epic. Roberta Smith, The New York Times

My Mother’s Altar: Joan Snyder Paints to Face Herself. Molly Snyder-Fink, Woman’s Art Journal

Joan Snyder: The Female Presence. Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint

2017

Forrest Bess and Joan Snyder: Parrasch Heijnen Gallery. David Pagel, Los Angeles Times

5 Questions with Joan Snyder. Charlotte Jansen, Elephant

2016

Joan Snyder on Florine Stettheimer’s Cathedrals paintings. The Artist Project, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Q&A: Joan Snyder. Amy Marie Slocum, Flaunt Magazine

All That Glitters: A Conversation with Joan Snyder. Jan Lhormer, Provincetown Arts

Review: Discoveries at Every Turn in Joan Snyder Paintings at Parrasch Heijnen. David Pagel, Los Angeles Times

2015  

A Profusion of Flowers. Roberta Smith, The New York Times

Joan Snyder Sub Rosa. Hovey Brock, The Brooklyn Rail

2014

Speaking with Joan Snyder about ‘Sweet Cathy’s Song’. Cara Manes, MoMA Inside/Out

2013

‘On Her Work.’ The Evening Lecture Series. New York Studio School, New York, NY

2011         

The Consciousness of a Feminist Expressionist. Martha Schwendener, The New York Times

The Lady of Wild Things. Lance Esplund, The Wall Street Journal

A Life Reflected in Rage, Grief, Gratitude. Kate McQuiad, The Boston Globe

2010

Joan Snyder: A Year in the Life of Painting. Roberta Smith, The New York Times 

2009

Joan Snyder: Solway-Jones Gallery: David Pagel, Los Angeles Times

2008

Painter Joan Snyder: 2007 MacArthur Fellow. MacArthur Foundation

2007

A MacArthur ‘Genius’ Wants Her Work Seen. Erica Orden, The New York Sun

Joan Snyder. Martha Schwendener, The New York Times

2005

In Every Stroke, Life's Fierce Pageant: Michael Kimmelmann, The New York Times

Iron Joan. Mark Stevens, New York Magazine

1996

‘Past, Present, Process.’ The Evening Lecture Series. New York Studio School, New York, NY

1994

Building on the Bare, Bare Bones. Roberta Smith, The New York Times

Snyder's Earth, Freud's Skin: Jed Perl, The New Criterion

1993

Getting Emotional: On Paintings of Lisa Zwerling and Joan Snyder: Jed Perl, The New Criterion

1992 

It Wasn't Neo To Us. Joan Snyder, Journal of the Rutgers University Library

Joan Snyder: Hirschl & Adler Modern. Holland Cotter, The New York Times

1987

Painting from the Heart. Susan Gill, ARTnews

True Believers Who Keep the Flame of Painting. Michael Brenson, The New York Times

1986

Joan Snyder: True Grit. Gerrit Henry, Art in America

1981

Resurrection: Joan Snyder: Matrix 67, Wadsworth Atheneum

1976

100 Greatest American Women

1971

The Anatomy of a Stroke: Recent Paintings by Joan Snyder. Marcia Tucker, ArtForum