College of Arts and Sciences

Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art
Phone: (239)590-7354
E-Mail: ssnyder@fgcu.edu
Office: AC - 131

Education:

• M.F.A. from Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
• B.A. from Taylor University, Upland, Indiana.

He has spent the last 14 years as a curator of fine art and as a 'practicing artist.' Snyder has been a member of the video group Paul Harvey Oswald (P.H.O.) for the past 10 years.  P.H.O. works have been exhibited in the touring exhibition "Illegal Art" sponsored by Stay Free Magazine, as well as museums,  galleries and public events scattered across the country. His personal sculptures, video and mixed media works have been exhibited in Chicago at the ARC gallery, Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia, South Bend Museum of Art, Lakeview Museum, Peoria, Rockford Art Museum,  Northwestern University, among others. Snyder's work has been published and reviewed in the New Art Examiner, Adbusters and Rockford Magazine.
 
He has performed his curatorial duties at The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and at the Rockford Art Museum in Illinois. He has curated well over 50 exhibitions at these institutions, as well as serving as a guest juror or curator for several other venues. Past exhibitions include:

• Flora: The Beauty of Botanicals in Art. Exhibition included: Georgia O'Keeffe, Milton Avery, Judy Ledgerwood, Pat Steir, John James Audubon, Brett Weston, and Laura Gilpin.
• 31 Shopping Days 'Til...?: Pop Culture in Art at the End of the Millennium. 
  Works by Roger Brown, Vernon Fisher, Laurie Hogin, Jenny Holzer, Ed & Nancy Kienholz, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Roy Lichtenstein, Virginia Meredith, Patrick Miceli, Claes Oldenburg, Paul Harvey Oswald, Lorraine Peltz, Robert Rauschenberg, Jason Salavon, Andy Warhol.
• Soul/Searching: Contemporary Latino Photography: Works by Martina Lopez, Victor Vazquez and Luis Gonzalez Palma.
• Lines in the Sand: Current Trends in Contemporary Glass. Works by Nicholas Africano, William Carlson, Dale Chihuly, José Chardiet, Jon Kuhn, Harvey Littleton, William Morris, Joel Philip Myers, Stephen Rolfe Powell, Mary Shaffer, Therman Statom, Bertil Vallien, Janusz Walentynowicz, Toots Zynsky.
• ...And Everything Nice. Co-curated with Chicago artist, Phyllis Bramson. Works by Mary Ellen Croteau, Megan Cump, Holly Greenburg, Julie Heffernan, Barbara Kendrick, Nina Levy, Nancy Mladenoff, Sungmi Naylor, Janet Pihlblad, Holly Rittenhouse, Rosalyn Schwartz.
• Women and Chicago Imagism. Works by Phyllis Bramson, Sarah Canright, Miyoko Ito, Ellen Lanyon, June Leaf, Gladys Nilsson, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, Hollis Sigler, Evelyn Statsinger.

Since the summer of 2005, Snyder has lived in Fort Myers and worked as Gallery Director and Assistant Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University. His most recent exhibitions include V-Chipped: Video, Art, Gender and Society  with works by Alex Bag,  Jia Chang, Bruce Nauman, and Shirin Neshat, and Recontextualized: Recent Works by Matt Siber.
 
In spare seconds of time, Scott continues to dabble in video art production and construction of objects that defy any rational thought or purpose for being.