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Clinton Snider

Adjunct Faculty
BFA, College for Creative Studies

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Clinton Snider earned his BA from College for Creative Studies in ’97 (Fine Arts/Illustration) And has exhibiting and teaching art in Metro Detroit ever since. Clinton Snider’s works, examine issues of social and environmental transformation within the ever-shifting conditions of our complex society.

Professional Experience

Clinton has exhibited his paintings, prints, and sculptures locally, nationally, and internationally,: Including The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Cranbrook Art Museum, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, David Klein Gallery, Robert Kidd Gallery, Mott College, The Kunst Werker Institute of Berlin, Think Space, Culver City, Scope Miami, and throughout Metropolitan Detroit. Snider’s works are part of many public and private collections, including, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Crambrook Art Museum, Henry Ford Hospital and the Kresge Foundation, and the Detroit Zoological Society.The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Cranbrook Art Museum, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, David Klein Gallery, Robert Kidd Gallery, Mott College, The Kunst Werker Institute of Berlin, Think Space, Culver City, Scope Miami, and throughout Metropolitan Detroit. Snider’s works are part of many public and private collections, including The Detroit Institute of Arts, Henry Ford Hospital and the Kresge Foundation, and the Detroit Zoological Society.The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Cranbrook Art Museum, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, David Klein Gallery, Robert Kidd Gallery, Mott College, The Kunst Werker Institute of Berlin, Think Space, Culver City, Scope Miami, and throughout Metropolitan Detroit. Snider’s works are part of many public and private collections, including The Detroit Institute of Arts, Henry Ford Hospital and the Kresge Foundation, and the Detroit Zoological Society.

Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023    Liminal Borders, New Works, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI.

2021    Anywhere and Nowhere, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI.

2018    Who Were They Then? Oakland University, Rochester, MI

2015    Sleeping Potential, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI.

2014    University Liggett School, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI

2012    Recent Work Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2009    Mott Community College, Recent Works. Flint, MI

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023    Beyond Topography, (Curator) Janice Charach Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI

2022    Printmakers in the 21st Century, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI.

2021    Notes From the Quarantimes,(Curator) Marshall Fredericks Museum,

Saginaw, MI

2019    Salon, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI.

2018    Making Home, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

2017    LAX/DTW Detroit Hustle, Thinkspace, Culver City

2016    Scope Miami, Miami, FL

2015    Grand Opening, David Klein, Detroit, MI

2009    Bods, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2007    Shrinking Cities Project, MOCAD/Cranbrook Art Museum

2004    Shrinking Cities: Schrumpfende Staedte, Berlin Institute for Contemporary Art, Germany

2001    Relics, Artists Take On Detroit, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

Publications

2021    Sharp, Sarah Rose, “(Especially) Trees, CSnider and Gothic Minimalism” Det Contempo.

2019    Clinton Snider, Studio Visit Magazine, Vol, 45 & 46

2018    Goodie, Dick, Catalogue, Oakland University Art Gallery Oct, 18

2017     Mensah, Lucy, Aldridge, Taylor Renee, “Making Home” Catalogue DIA, Detroit

2015    Panton, Steve. “24 Clinton Snider” Essay’d vol.1 July, 1,

2012    Carducci, Vince “Painter Among the Ruins of Modernity” Huffington Post. July, 10

2008     Lynn Crawford, Detroit: Stories, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Fall 08

ARTIST TALKS / LECTURES

2024    Janice Charach Gallery, Beyond Topography, Curator Talk, West Bloomfield, MI.

2023    Liminal Borders, New Works, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI.

2019    Romeo Guild of Art, Artist Talk, The Starkweather Art Center, Romeo, MI

2018    Oakland University Art Gallery, Artist Talk, OU, Rochester, MI

2017    to the End of the Earth, Detroit Artist Market, Artist Talk. Sept. 30

2012     Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2011    The Collaborative Group, Artist Talk, Birmingham, MI

2010    The Roeper School, Guest Speaker artist talk, Birmingham, MI

College for Creative Studies, Guest Artist, Detroit, MI

2009    Mott Community College, Artist Talk, Flint, MI

College for Creative Studies, Artist Talk, Detroit, MI

2008    College for Creative Studies, Artist Talk, Detroit, MI

2007    Cranbrook Museum of Art, Shrinking Cities, “Gallery Talk” Birmingham, MI

Grosse Pointe Art Center, Artist Lecture, Grosse Point, MI

2005    NPR. Morning Edition, “Detroit Struggles to Overcome Urban Blight,” Interview Jan.3

2004    Detroit Institute of Art, Artist Choice Program, artist talk, Detroit, MI

2001    The Detroit Institute of Art, RELICS, Gallery Talk, Detroit, MI

The DIA Auditorium, RELICS, Interview & Documentary, Detroit, MI