Dash Snow
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Dash Snow (b. 1981, New York) is an artist based in New York.
Snow has exhibited in galleries and museums such as The Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Deitch Projects, Saatchi Gallery and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery [1] in New York. He is represented by Rivington Arms Gallery in New York.
Snow is best known for his sculptural installations and photographs, many of which use his semen as one of the materials.
Snow is the great-grandson of Dominique de Menil, and his mother, Taya Snow, is the daughter of Robert Thurman (and the half-sister of actress Uma Thurman). Snow ran away from home and began living on the streets at 13 or 14, and began taking photographs, he says, as a record of places he might not remember the next day.
Snow works in a similar genre to Nan Goldin, and his images are uncomfortable in their subject matter. Instances of sex, drug taking, violence and art-world pretentiousness are documented with disarming frankness and honesty, offering insight into a decadent lifestyle.
