Tracey Snelling

Tracey Snelling is an internationally exhibiting contemporary visual artist, known best for her encompassing installations using small-scale and large-scale sculptures, along with projections. Through the use of many mediums, Snelling gives her impression of a place, its people and their experience, and allows the viewer to extrapolate his or her own meaning. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. Tracey was invited by the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 to exhibit her Bordertown installation. Snelling has shown work in museums such as The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Gemeentemuseum Helmond, the Netherlands; Shanghai Zendai MOMA, Zhujiajiao, China; and Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany. She has had solo exhibitions throughout the US as well as in China, Belgium, the Netherlands, and London, and has been awarded residencies in Beijing and Shanghai. Her large-scale, film-inspired installation Woman on the Run has been exhibited at Selfridges, London; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; 21c Museum, Louisville; Frist, Nashville; at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina March through May, 2012, and at Virginia MOCA in September, 2012.