Stephen Snoddy

Stephen Snoddy
Snoddy at The New Art Gallery, Walsall, in September 2013
Born	1959 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Alma mater	Belfast College of Art University of Manchester
Occupation	Gallery Director

Stephen Snoddy (born 1959, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an artist and gallery director.

Snoddy trained as a painter at Belfast College of Art where he graduated in 1983 with an MA in Fine Art.

Snoddy moved to Manchester in 1986 and graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Art Gallery & Museum Studies from the University of Manchester in 1987 and then moved to Bristol to become Exhibitions Organiser at Arnolfini Gallery.

He worked from 1987–1991 on an exhibition programme that included solo exhibitions by Richard Long, Giuseppe Penone, Gillian Ayres, Rachel Whiteread, Vong Phaophanit, Jannis Kounellis: Drawings, Jack B. Yeats: The Late Works (which toured to the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Haags Gemeentemuseum) and the first solo exhibition of Juan Munoz in the UK.

In 1991, Snoddy became Exhibitions Director of Cornerhouse, Manchester, where he and other city curators established the Manchester Gallery Consortium when the Hayward Gallery brought the British Art Show 4 to the city in 1995. He also organised such shows as the first John Baldessari European Retrospective toured to the Serpentine Gallery, London and onwards onto a European tour; a Bruce McLean film commission; 'Sublime: Manchester Music and Design';Edward Allington;Jochen Gerz; Annette Messager: Telling Tales'; Rita Donagh Retrospective; Paul Seawright: Sectarian Murders and 'Unveiled: Possibilities in Abstract Painting' exhibitions.