Dash Snow
| Dash Snow | |
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| Born |
July 27, 1981 New York City |
| Died | July 13, 2009 (aged 27) New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for |
Photography Collage Installation |
| Movement | Graffiti |
Dashiell "Dash" Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009) was an American artist, based in New York.
Dashiell A. Snow was born in 1981, to Taya Thurman and Christopher Snow. He was a great-grandson of Dominique de Menil and John de Menil, French aristocrats who were heirs to fortunes based in textiles and oil-drilling equipment (see Schlumberger) and founders of Houston's Menil Collection. His maternal grandfather was Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, father of actress Uma Thurman, and his maternal grandmother was set and costume designer Marie-Christophe de Menil. He had a brother named Maxwell and a sister named Caroline. He was rebellious as a child and, at 13, was sent to the Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia, a residential treatment center specializing in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant disorder. He did not graduate from high school.
Snow began taking photographs as a teenager, he said, as a record of places he might not remember the next day.
In 2006, he was included in the Wall Street Journal article titled "The 23-Year Old Masters", which profiled 10 emerging US artists including Rosson Crow, Ryan Trecartin, Zane Lewis, Barney Kulok, Jordan Wolfson, Rashawn Griffin and Keegan McHargue.
Like photographers Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and Ryan McGinley his photos depict scenes of a sex, drug-taking, violence and art-world pretense with candor, documenting the decadent lifestyle of a group of young New York City artists and their social circle.
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