Dash Snow

Dash Snow studied at Hidden Lake Academy. The field of work recorded is photography. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Work by Dash Snow is recorded in the collections of Whitney Museum of American Art.

• Name — Dash Snow • Birth Name — Dashiell Alexander Whitney Snow • Born — 27 July 1981 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Died — 13 July 2009 • Place of death — New York City, U.S. • Field — * Photography • Collage • Installation • Graffiti • Relatives — Robert Thurman (maternal grandfather) Nena von Schlebrügge (maternal Step-grandmother) Uma Thurman (aunt) Maya Hawke (cousin) • Children — 1

Dashiell Alexander Whitney Snow was born on July 27, 1981, to Taya Thurman and Christopher Snow. He grew up on the Upper West Side in New York City. Snow and his siblings, Maxwell and Caroline, are descendants of the de Menil family, who are known for their philanthropy and collection of American art. At thirteen, he was sent to Hidden Lake Academy, a therapeutic boarding school specializing in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant disorder.

As a teenager, Snow began taking photographs to document the places he might not remember the next day. In the 1990s, he was a member of the IRAK graffiti crew; the name of the group was a reference to shoplifting, or racking. In order to sign his work, Snow used the tag "SACE" or "SACER". His first solo photography exhibition took place in 2005. In 2006, The Wall Street Journal profiled Snow and nine other emerging American artists, including Rosson Crow, Ryan Trecartin, Zane Lewis, Barney Kulok, Jordan Wolfson, and Keegan McHargue. The same year he was included in the Whitney Biennial. In 2007, Snow and Dan Colen co-created an installation of shredded phone books in Jeffrey Deitch's SoHo gallery; the exhibit was named “Nest” or “Hamster Nest”. In his later collage-based work, Snow used his semen as a material applied to or splashed across newspaper photographs of police officers and other authority figures.

Snow's parents were Christopher Snow and Taya Thurman. His maternal grandparents were Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, the father of actress Uma Thurman, and his first wife artist Marie-Christophe de Menil. He was the great-grandson of John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, the founders of the Menil Collection and Museum located in Houston, Texas. Dominique was heiress to the Schlumberger Limited oil-equipment fortune. At the age of 18, Snow married Corsican artist Agathe Aparru Snow; the couple later divorced. In July 2007, his partner, Jade Berreau, gave birth to the couple's daughter, Secret Midnight Magic Nico.

• Silence is the only true friend that shall never betray you, Rivington Arms, New York City, 2006. Collages. • Rivington Arms, New York City, 2006. Found materials, collages, sculptures and assemblages.

• USA Today, Royal Academy, London, 2006 • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 2006 • Babylon: Myth and Truth, Pergamon Museum, Berlin, 2008. Included collages by Snow. • Exercises on Democracy, a traveling exhibition, White House Biennial, Athens, Greece, 2013– • Materialized: New Ameriacn Video and..., Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, 2008. Included Hamsters Nest by Snow. Curated by Kathy Grayson. • Photographs. The Royal Collection of Graphic Arts, National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark, 2010

Snow's work is held in the following public collections: • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City • Brooklyn Museum, New York City • The Watermill Center