| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Angela Snieder is an artist working primarily in photo-based print media and installation. She makes use of the mimetic qualities inherent to photography in the hope of drawing attention not only to the photograph’s capability for deception, but also to the duplicitous nature of perception and memory.
Using the diorama as a creative device, Snieder constructs spaces that play with photography’s implicit sense of trust. She stages her built dioramas with light and atmosphere, then photographs them. The results are dream-like scenes that serve to explore an in-betweenness: spaces of both protection and entrapment, of natural and built, of fascination and fear. Her photographs capture the feeling that something is on the verge of taking place.
Snieder completed her BFA at York University in 2013, and her MFA in Printmaking at the University of Alberta in 2017. She taught printmaking, drawing and intermedia arts for several years at the University of Alberta, and also taught at the Society of Northern Print Artists (SNAP).
Snieder has had solo and group exhibitions at the Martha Street Studio in Winnipeg, the Alberta Printmakers in Calgary, Gallery 44 in Toronto, and was included in the 7th International Guanlan Print Biennial in Shenzhen, China, and the Krakòw International Print Triennial in Poland.
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