Dash Snow

Art Brokerage: Dash Snow American Artist: b. 1981-2009. Dashiell "Dash" Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009) was an American artist, based in New York. Dashiell A. Snow was born in 1981, the son of Taya Thurman and Christopher Snow. He was also a great-grandson of the founders of the Menil Collection in Houston, Dominique de Menil and John de Menil, French aristocrats who were heirs to fortunes based in textiles and oil-drilling equipment (see Schlumberger). His maternal grandfather was Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, father of actress Uma Thurman while his maternal grandmother was set and costume designer Marie-Christophe de Menil. He had a brother named Maxwell and a sister named Caroline.As a child he was rebellious, 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. Some of Snow's later collage-based work was characterized by his practice of using his own semen as a material applied to or splashed across newspaper photographs of police officers and other authority figures. Snow exhibited in galleries and museums such as the Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2006 Bienniale, Peres Projects, Contemporary Fine Arts, Deitch Projects, Saatchi Gallery, "Babylon" at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Bergen Kunsthall in Norway, Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark, White House Biennial in Athens. His works are held in the collections of Charles Saatchi, Anita Zabludowicz, and Dakis Joannou, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum. Snow died on the evening of July 13, 2009, at Lafayette House, a hotel in lower Manhattan. His grandmother Marie-Christophe de Menil was quoted as saying that he died of a drug overdose. Listings wanted.