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'''Tracey Snelling''' (born 1970) is an American contemporary artist. Working with sculpture, video, photography and installation, and deriving from sociology, voyeurism and geographical and architectural location, her work gives her impression of a place, its people, and their experience.<ref name="juxtapos">{{cite news|last1=Farr|first1=Kristin|title=Tracey Snelling, New Image Art, West Hollywood|url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/tracey-snelling-clusterfuck-3-new-image-art/|access-date=26 March 2017|work=Juxtapoz|date=January 16, 2016}}</ref><ref name="new times art basel">{{cite news |last1=De Jesus |first1=Carlos Suarez |date=December 28, 2006 |title=All Politics Is Loco |work=Miami New Times |url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/content/printView/6335018 |url-status=dead |access-date=31 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401060133/https://www.miaminewtimes.com/content/printView/6335018 |archive-date=1 April 2017}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
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Snelling was born in [[Oakland, California]]. She learned about alternative processes and contemporary artists while attending photography classes in Northern California, and began to experiment with photography. She took several years off to do conservation work with the [[California Conservation Corps]] and later attended the [[University of New Mexico]], where she earned a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]], working as a firefighter with the [[U.S. Forest Service]] to finance her education.<ref name="establishment">{{cite news|last1=Tandy|first1=Katie|title=Voyeuristic Artist Tracey Snelling Reminds Us To Look Closer|url=https://theestablishment.co/voyeuristic-artist-tracey-snelling-reminds-us-to-look-closer-e30f682f2d40#.ezo45fy8t|access-date=26 March 2017|work=The Establishment|date=November 19, 2015}}</ref><ref name="art pulse" />


==Career==
'''Tracey Snelling''' is an American contemporary artist. Working with sculpture, video, and photography, her work often "evokes a sense of place and the various underlying narratives within the given space."<ref name="juxtapos">{{cite news|last1=Farr|first1=Kristin|title=Tracey Snelling, New Image Art, West Hollywood|url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/tracey-snelling-clusterfuck-3-new-image-art/|accessdate=26 March 2017|work=Juxtapoz|date=January 16, 2016}}</ref>
After her graduation, Snelling worked primarily as a photographer and collage artist. She continued to experiment with photography, painting over images of everyday life and tearing negatives to create surreal images. Her collage photograph ''1881 Chestnut Street,'' an elaborate 2-D representation of a New York [[brownstone]] created from snippets of 1940s-era ''[[Life (magazine)|LIFE]]'' magazines, inspired her first series of building-type sculptures.<ref name="East Bay x" />


In 2005, she created ''El Mirador,'' a small scale sculpture of an adobe hotel with six windows. A DVD player behind the piece showed a montage of film clips, synced so that the characters appeared to be interacting with one another. The original ''El Mirador'' was twenty inches tall; Snelling subsequently made a six-and-a-half foot tall version of the piece ("Big El Mirador") to show at a solo exhibition in London <ref name="artnews">{{cite news|title=Tracey Snelling: Dulces Opens in London|url=http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=19698&int_modo=2#.WOkPP9LyvIU|access-date=8 April 2017|work=Art Daily|date=April 30, 2007}}</ref> and later at [[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]] and the Oakland Underground Film Festival.<ref name="East Bay x">{{cite news|last1=Swan|first1=Rachel|title=Tracey Snelling's Bordertown Romance|url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/tracey-snellings-bordertown-romance/Content?oid=1939731|access-date=31 March 2017|work=East Bay Express|date=July 21, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Spark">{{cite news|title=Spark: Tracey Snelling|url=https://ww2.kqed.org/spark/tracey-snelling/|access-date=31 March 2017|work=KQED|date=August 4, 2006}}</ref> In a review of ''El Mirador'' as it was exhibited during [[Art Basel]] in 2006, the ''[[Miami New Times]]'' wrote: "Snelling's voyeuristic work exudes a surreal vibe dripping with poignant haplessness. It plays with the viewer's desire to engage in the emotional mix of the strangers they are intruding upon, as if challenging one not to find seduction in people or things that are broken."<ref name="new times art basel" />
==Early life and education==
Snelling was born in Oakland, California. She learned about alternative processes and contemporary artists while attending a photography class in Northern California, and began to experiment with photography as contemporary art. She spent several years doing conservation work with the [[California Conservation Corps]] and firefighting with the [[U.S. Forest Service]], before returning to school at the [[University of New Mexico]] to complete her BFA. <ref>{{Cite web|url = http://artpulsemagazine.com/tracey-snelling-an-urban-narrative|title = Tracey Snelling: An Urban Native|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref><ref name="establishment">{{cite news|last1=Tandy|first1=Katie|title=Voyeuristic Artist Tracey Snelling Reminds Us To Look Closer|url=https://theestablishment.co/voyeuristic-artist-tracey-snelling-reminds-us-to-look-closer-e30f682f2d40#.ezo45fy8t|accessdate=26 March 2017|work=The Establishment|date=November 19, 2015}}</ref>


Snelling originally used found footage for her video work. In 2008, she created a large-scale installation, ''Woman on the Run,'' commissioned by [[Selfridges]]. She had previously used found footage for her video work; for ''Woman on the Run,'' she and her friends appeared as characters in the installation, and original footage was shot. Snelling and her co-producer, Idan Levin, collaborated on adding new elements to the installation each time it was shown. ''Woman on the Run'' traveled to five different museums in the US, following the debut in London.<ref name="art pulse">{{cite news|last1=Leyva-Pérez|first1=Irina|title=Tracey Snelling: An Urban Narrative|url=http://artpulsemagazine.com/tracey-snelling-an-urban-narrative|access-date=31 March 2017|work=ArtPulse|date=February 1, 2013}}</ref> Snelling worked with Levin again in 2015 on ''The Stranger,'' a 4:42 minute film which explored belonging and identity. The film included two narrated poems, one in English and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and the other in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and [[Arabic]], with concurrent subtitles below.<ref>{{cite web|last1=UICA|title=ArtPrize artist investigates world's poor, social issues, strength|url=https://cultured.gr/artprize-artist-investigates-worlds-poor-social-issues-strength-a1b2fb0e2c72|website=cultured.gr|publisher=Cultured|access-date=31 March 2017}}</ref>
== List of Works ==


Snelling's 2013 work included ''Mystery Hour.'' It used large-scale posters and elaborate architectural models to create "archetypal worlds from middle- and lowbrow genre films" to "depict imaginary B movies whose premises are as facetious as they are seductively lurid." ''[[Artforum]]'' described ''Mystery Hour'' as "mesmerizing, sinister."<ref name="Art Forum">{{cite news|last1=Westin|first1=Monica|title=Picks: San Francisco Tracey Snelling|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/id=44840|access-date=31 March 2017|work=Artforum|date=December 19, 2013}}</ref>
=== Solo Exhibitions and Installations ===
* Krupic Kersting Galerie, Cologne, Germany.
2013<ref name=":0" />
* Nothing short film, AC Institute, [[New York, NY]].
* Everything is Everything, Aeroplastics Contemporary, [[Brussels, Belgium]].
* Mystery Hour, Rena Bransten Gallery, [[San Francisco, CA]].
* Nothing short film, Circuito Off, Teatrino Palazzo Grassi, [[Venice, Italy]].
* Nothing short film, [[Crocker Art Museum]], [[Sacramento, CA]].
2012<ref name=":0" />
* Nothing short film, TinT Gallery, in conjunction with the [[Thessaloniki International Film Festival]], [[Thessaloniki, Greece]].
* Nothing short film, Oakland Underground Film Festival, [[Oakland, CA]].
* Woman on the Run, Virginia MOCA, [[Virginia Beach, Virginia]].
* Another Day in Paradise, Nothing short film, Samek Art Gallery, [[Bucknell University]], [[Lewisburg, Pennsylvania]].
* Nothing short film, [[San Francisco International Film Festival]], San Francisco, CA.
* Woman on the Run, [[Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art]], [[Winston-Salem, North Carolina]].
2011<ref name=":0" />
* Woman on the Run, Frist Museum, [[Nashville, Tennessee]].
* Raging Lotus, [[Exploratorium]], San Francisco, California.
* A Sort of Homecoming, L.H. Horton Gallery, [[San Joaquin Delta College]], [[Stockton, CA]].
2010<ref name=":0" />
* TenYear Survey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
* Woman on the Run, 21C Museum, [[Louisville, Kentucky]].
* [[Shanghai, China|Shanghai]] Zendai MOMA, [[Zhujiajiao]], [[China]].
* Bordertown, New Frontier on Main, [[Sundance Film Festival]], [[Park City, Utah]].
* Bordertown, Oakland Underground Film Festival, Oakland, CA.
2009<ref name=":0" />
* Woman on the Run, Smack Mellon, [[Brooklyn, New York]].
* Greta Garbo Slept Here, TacheLevy, Brussels, Belgium.
* Dirty Pretty Things, Cokkie Snoei, [[Amsterdam]] and [[Rotterdam]], the [[Netherlands]].
* Where Mr. Wong Sent Me, [[Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne|Galerie Urs Meile]], [[Beijing]], China.
2008<ref name=":0" />
* Pan American Art Projects, [[Miami, Florida]].
* Another Town, Wedel, [[London]].
* Woman on the Run, [[Selfridges]], London.
2007<ref name=":0" />
* Another Shocking Psychological Thriller, Houston Center for Photography, [[Houston, Texas]].
* Monsters, TacheLevy, Martin Margiela Building, Brussels, Belgium.
* Dulces, Wedel, London.
2006<ref name=":0" />
* Dark Detour, [[de Saisset Museum]], [[Santa Clara, California]].
2005<ref name=":0" />
* The Comfort, the Beauty, the Shame, Lokaal 01, [[Breda, Netherlands]].
* Convenient, [[SF Camerawork]], San Francisco, California.
* South Side, Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2004<ref name=":0" />
* Last Picture Show, Stephen Cohen Gallery, [[Los Angeles, California]].
2003<ref name=":0" />
* Sculpture/Structure, [[Museum of Art and History]], [[Santa Cruz, California]].
* Sculpture and Photographs, Sala Diaz, [[San Antonio, Texas]].


Her multi-media sculptural installation ''One Thousand Shacks'' (2016) conveyed the "precarious individual existence" of people living in extreme poverty. Composed of a 16-foot by 10 foot wall of small-scale shacks, photographs, wire, wood, and other materials were used in each shack to capture people "living the best they can in excruciating circumstances," portraying her subjects "not as powerless victims, but rather as defiant and hopeful members of humanity."<ref name="Oakland mag">{{cite news|last1=Bean|first1=Kyrsin|title=Tracy Snelling's Art Contemplates the Precariousness of Suffering|url=http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Tracy-Snellings-Art-Contemplates-the-Precariousness-of-Suffering/|access-date=31 March 2017|work=Oakland Magazine|date=August 1, 2016}}</ref> A variation of ''One Thousand Shacks'' titled ''Tenement Rising'' was included in Snelling's ''Naked City'' solo show in [[Cologne|Cologne, Germany]] in late 2016.<ref name="TV">{{cite news|last1=Enrico|first1=V.|title=Tracey Snelling: The Naked City / Krupic Kersting Gallery, Cologne|url=http://vernissage.tv/2016/09/19/tracey-snelling-the-naked-city-krupic-kersting-gallery-cologne/|access-date=31 March 2017|work=Vernissage TV|date=September 19, 2016}}</ref>
=== Selected Group Exhibitions ===

2015<ref name=":0" />
Snelling has exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the [[Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium]], [[Royal Palace of Milan|Palazzo Reale]], Milan; [[Museum of Arts and Design]], New York; Kunstmuseem Krefeld, Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; and the Stenersen Museet, Oslo. Her short films have screened at the [[San Francisco International Film Festival]], the [[Thessaloniki International Film Festival]], Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal, among other places.<ref name="TV" /> Snelling's ''Criminal City,'' a commission for [[Historical Museum, Frankfurt|Historisches Museum Frankfurt]], opened in September 2017.<ref>{{cite news|title=Frankfurt = Hauptstadt des Verbrechens?!/|url=https://www.historisches-museum-frankfurt.de/de/schneekugel/kriminelle_stadt?language=en|access-date= October 19, 2021|work=Historisches Museum Frankfurt|date= April 8, 2017}}</ref>
* Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of HiFructose, Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA.

* [[Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium|Royal Museum of Fine Arts]], Brussels, Belgium.
Her work is included in the collection of the [[Museum of Fine Arts Houston]].<ref name="MFAH"/>
* Gedroomde Stad (Ideal City), Afrika Museum, [[Berg en Dal (village)|Berg en Dal]], The Netherlands.

* The Auction, [[Terrance Higgins Trust]], [[Christie's]], London.
Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and [[Berlin|Berlin, Germany]].<ref name="Oakland mag" />
2014<ref name=":0" />
* Welcome to the Jungle, Pan American Art Projects, [[Miami, Florida]].
* Art in Motion, Jules Maeght Gallery, curated by Natasha Boas, San Francisco, CA.
* The Remarkable Lightness of Being, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.
* L’expo dans le chapeau, La Vitrine am, curated by Raphael Cuir, [[Paris, France]].
* ArtPrize, GRCC Collins Art Gallery, [[Grand Rapids, MI]].
* A Contemporary Landscape Invitational, St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, [[Moraga, CA]].
* Summer Road Trip, Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco, CA.
* Karla’s House, The Battery, San Francisco, CA.
* On Dry Land, [[Negev Museum of Art]], curated by Ravit Harari, [[Beersheba]], [[Israel]].
* Brussels Cologne Contemporaries, [[Cologne, Germany]].
* Home: Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art, Schneider Museum of Art, [[Ashland, OR]].
2013<ref name=":0" />
* Drinnen Binnen Buiten Draussen, Galerie Roy, [[Zülpich]], [[Germany]].
* Drinnen Binnen Buiten Draussen, Kers Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
* Making Space: Art and Place, [[Euphrat Museum of Art]], [[Cupertino, CA]].
* Home: Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art, Bedford Gallery, [[Walnut Creek, CA]].
* The Storytellers, El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Rupublica, [[Bogota]], [[Colombia]].
* Once More, Lokaal 01, Breda, the Netherlands.
* Parallax Views, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, [[San Jose, CA]].
* As Tears Go By* (who cries with me?), Cokki Snoei, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
* Theatrical Gestures, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, [[Herzliya]], Israel.
* Raw China Art Expo, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
2012<ref name=":0" />
* Not Another End of the World Exhibition, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.
* Nervous Women, Museum Dr. Guislain, [[Ghent, Belgium]].
* Otherworldly: Artist Dioramas and Small Spectacles, Lille 3000, [[Lille, France]].
* Signature, Schriftuur, Bruges Cultural Centre, De Bond, Bruges, Belgium.
* The Storytellers, Stenersen Museum, [[Oslo, Norway]].
* The End of Everything/A New Beginning, LARMgalleri, [[Copenhagen, Denmark]].
* Brought to Light: Masterworks of Photography from the Crocker Art Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
* America Rules, West Collection, [[Oaks, Pennsylvania]].
* Streetopia, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
* Chico and Chang, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
* The Bridge, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California.
* Fireflies,Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium.
2011<ref name=":0" />
* Otherworldly: Artist Dioramas and Small Spectacles, Museum of Art and Design New York, New York.
* Reconstructed World, Gatehouse Gallery, Di Rosa, [[Napa, California]].
* Chico and Chang, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, California.
* Anonyme Skulpturen, Galerie im Taxispalais, [[Innsbruck, Austria]].
2010<ref name=":0" />
* Anonyme Skulpturen, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, [[Krefeld, Germany]].
* Accrochage,Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China.
* Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
* The House in My Head, Kunsthallen Brandts, [[Odense, Denmark]].
* PopUp Magazine, Herbst Theater, San Francisco, California.
2009<ref name=":0" />
* Narratives, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida.
* That's All Folks!, curated by Michel Dewilde and Jerome Jacobs, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium.
* Achtung Baby, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, [[Helmond]], the Netherlands.
* Low Blow,Stux Gallery, New York, New York.
2008<ref name=":0" />
* Road Trip, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California.
2007<ref name=":0" />
* There’s No Place Like Here, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, [[Rohnert Park, California]].
* XXSSize Does Matter, Sommer Gallery, [[Tel Aviv, Israel]].
* Paulo Post Futurum, Lokaal 01, Museum of Breda, Breda, the Netherlands.
* Emergent Behavior, Martin Art Gallery, [[Muhlenberg College]], [[Allentown, Pennsylvania]].
* Brown Bag Contemporary, New York.
* Emergency Room, P.S.1 MOMA, [[Long Island City, New York]].
* Regeneration, Kentler International Drawing Space; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York.
* Greetings from the American Dream, [[Riverside Art Museum]], [[Riverside, California]].
2006<ref name=":0" />
* Searchers, White Box, [[New York, New York]].
* Fellowship Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, [[Berkeley, California]].
* New Code, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy.
* Looking Through Walls, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.
* Photosynkyria, Tint Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
* Headlands Institute, [[Marin Headlands]], [[California]].
2005<ref name=":0" />
* Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, New York.
* Regeneration, [[Douglass College]], [[Rutgers University]], [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]].
* Blueprints, [[Intersection for the Arts]], San Francisco, California.
2004<ref name=":0" />
* Epic, [[Southern Exposure (art space)|Southern Exposure]], San Francisco, California.


== References ==
== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://traceysnelling.com Official website ]


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Latest revision as of 18:24, 14 December 2022

Tracey Snelling
Born
Tracey Snelling

1970 (age 53–54)[1]
Oakland, California
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of New Mexico
StyleContemporary
Awards2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant

Tracey Snelling (born 1970) is an American contemporary artist. Working with sculpture, video, photography and installation, and deriving from sociology, voyeurism and geographical and architectural location, her work gives her impression of a place, its people, and their experience.[2][3]

Early life and education

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Snelling was born in Oakland, California. She learned about alternative processes and contemporary artists while attending photography classes in Northern California, and began to experiment with photography. She took several years off to do conservation work with the California Conservation Corps and later attended the University of New Mexico, where she earned a BFA, working as a firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service to finance her education.[4][5]

Career

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After her graduation, Snelling worked primarily as a photographer and collage artist. She continued to experiment with photography, painting over images of everyday life and tearing negatives to create surreal images. Her collage photograph 1881 Chestnut Street, an elaborate 2-D representation of a New York brownstone created from snippets of 1940s-era LIFE magazines, inspired her first series of building-type sculptures.[6]

In 2005, she created El Mirador, a small scale sculpture of an adobe hotel with six windows. A DVD player behind the piece showed a montage of film clips, synced so that the characters appeared to be interacting with one another. The original El Mirador was twenty inches tall; Snelling subsequently made a six-and-a-half foot tall version of the piece ("Big El Mirador") to show at a solo exhibition in London [7] and later at Sundance and the Oakland Underground Film Festival.[6][8] In a review of El Mirador as it was exhibited during Art Basel in 2006, the Miami New Times wrote: "Snelling's voyeuristic work exudes a surreal vibe dripping with poignant haplessness. It plays with the viewer's desire to engage in the emotional mix of the strangers they are intruding upon, as if challenging one not to find seduction in people or things that are broken."[3]

Snelling originally used found footage for her video work. In 2008, she created a large-scale installation, Woman on the Run, commissioned by Selfridges. She had previously used found footage for her video work; for Woman on the Run, she and her friends appeared as characters in the installation, and original footage was shot. Snelling and her co-producer, Idan Levin, collaborated on adding new elements to the installation each time it was shown. Woman on the Run traveled to five different museums in the US, following the debut in London.[5] Snelling worked with Levin again in 2015 on The Stranger, a 4:42 minute film which explored belonging and identity. The film included two narrated poems, one in English and Spanish and the other in Hebrew and Arabic, with concurrent subtitles below.[9]

Snelling's 2013 work included Mystery Hour. It used large-scale posters and elaborate architectural models to create "archetypal worlds from middle- and lowbrow genre films" to "depict imaginary B movies whose premises are as facetious as they are seductively lurid." Artforum described Mystery Hour as "mesmerizing, sinister."[10]

Her multi-media sculptural installation One Thousand Shacks (2016) conveyed the "precarious individual existence" of people living in extreme poverty. Composed of a 16-foot by 10 foot wall of small-scale shacks, photographs, wire, wood, and other materials were used in each shack to capture people "living the best they can in excruciating circumstances," portraying her subjects "not as powerless victims, but rather as defiant and hopeful members of humanity."[11] A variation of One Thousand Shacks titled Tenement Rising was included in Snelling's Naked City solo show in Cologne, Germany in late 2016.[12]

Snelling has exhibited in international galleries, museums and institutions, including the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Kunstmuseem Krefeld, Germany; El Museo de Arte de Banco de la Republica, Bogota; and the Stenersen Museet, Oslo. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Circuito Off in Venice, Italy, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa in Portugal, among other places.[12] Snelling's Criminal City, a commission for Historisches Museum Frankfurt, opened in September 2017.[13]

Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.[1]

Snelling lives and works in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany.[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Tracey Snelling: Blue Swallow Motel". mfah.org.
  2. ^ Farr, Kristin (January 16, 2016). "Tracey Snelling, New Image Art, West Hollywood". Juxtapoz. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  3. ^ a b De Jesus, Carlos Suarez (December 28, 2006). "All Politics Is Loco". Miami New Times. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. ^ Tandy, Katie (November 19, 2015). "Voyeuristic Artist Tracey Snelling Reminds Us To Look Closer". The Establishment. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  5. ^ a b Leyva-Pérez, Irina (February 1, 2013). "Tracey Snelling: An Urban Narrative". ArtPulse. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  6. ^ a b Swan, Rachel (July 21, 2010). "Tracey Snelling's Bordertown Romance". East Bay Express. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Tracey Snelling: Dulces Opens in London". Art Daily. April 30, 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  8. ^ "Spark: Tracey Snelling". KQED. August 4, 2006. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  9. ^ UICA. "ArtPrize artist investigates world's poor, social issues, strength". cultured.gr. Cultured. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  10. ^ Westin, Monica (December 19, 2013). "Picks: San Francisco Tracey Snelling". Artforum. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  11. ^ a b Bean, Kyrsin (August 1, 2016). "Tracy Snelling's Art Contemplates the Precariousness of Suffering". Oakland Magazine. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  12. ^ a b Enrico, V. (September 19, 2016). "Tracey Snelling: The Naked City / Krupic Kersting Gallery, Cologne". Vernissage TV. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  13. ^ "Frankfurt = Hauptstadt des Verbrechens?!/". Historisches Museum Frankfurt. April 8, 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2021.
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