Gillian Sneed
GILLIAN SNEED is an art historian and writer, whose work centers on gender studies, and modern and contemporary art of the Americas.
Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
By Gillian SneedAxis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.—on view at Hunter College’s 205 Hudson and Leubsdorf galleries—is the first exhibition to excavate the understudied experimental practices and exchanges of a generation of queer Chicanx artists in Southern California from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.
Berlin Biennial 11: The Crack Begins Within
By Gillian SneedAgainst the backdrop of the pandemic and global anti-racism protests, the show’s impassioned screed against patriarchal capitalism, settler and extractive colonialism, and Western and neoliberal temporalities and material realities feels urgent and timely.
Diaries of an Artist
The Art and Writing of Rosemary Mayer
By Marie Warsh and Gillian Sneed
In 1981, the artist Rosemary Mayer (1943 – 2014) began documenting the dinner parties she held in her Tribeca loft in a large sketchbook. Known as Dinner Book, it was a record of who came to dinner and what they ate. It was adorned with drawings by Mayer and her guests, wine labels, and photographs, and was annotated with commentary on each meal and occasion.
Art Systems and Hélio Oiticica
By Gillian SneedLast year, Brazil dominated international headlines for a series of troubling episodes: the beginning of the year witnessed the emergence of the Zika virus, precipitating panic at the prospect of a global pandemic; the spring brought increasing political turmoil that eventually led to the August 2016 impeachment of the country’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, amid a corruption scandal—in what many have described as a right-wing coup—leading to the non-democratic installation of the corrupt Michel Temer.
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
By Gillian SneedAfter the devastating results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many Hillary Clinton supporters may have doubted if the future really was female.
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
By Gillian SneedAfter the devastating results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many Hillary Clinton supporters may have doubted if the future really was female.
