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
