Dash Snow

Dashiell Alexander Whitney Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009) was an American artist based in New York City. Snow's photographs included scenes of sex, drugs, violence, and the art world; his work often depicted the decadent lifestyle of young New York City artists and their social circle.

Early life and education Dashiell Alexander Whitney Snow was born on July 27, 1981, Snow and his siblings, Maxwell and Caroline, are descendants of the de Menil family, who are known for their philanthropy and collection of American art.

At thirteen, he was sent to Hidden Lake Academy, a therapeutic boarding school specializing in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant disorder.

Career As a teenager, Snow began taking photographs to document the places he might not remember the next day. In the 1990s, he was a member of the IRAK graffiti crew; the name of the group was a reference to shoplifting, or racking. In order to sign his work, Snow used the tag "SACE" or "SACER". The same year he was included in the Whitney Biennial.

In his later collage-based work, Snow used his semen as a material applied to or splashed across newspaper photographs of police officers and other authority figures. He was the great-grandson of John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, the founders of the Menil Collection and Museum located in Houston, Texas. Dominique was heiress to the Schlumberger Limited oil-equipment fortune.

At the age of 18, Snow married Corsican artist Agathe Aparru Snow; the couple later divorced.

In July 2007, his partner, Jade Berreau, gave birth to the couple's daughter, Secret Midnight Magic Nico.

In 2016, his family sued McDonald's after they refused to remove the tag "SACE" from the graffiti-themed interior design used in some European and Asian restaurants; the case was later dismissed.

A documentary film about Snow, Moments Like This Never Last, was released in 2020.

Publications Slime The Boogie. Berlin/Los Angeles: Peres Projects, 2007. Gang bang at ground zero. New York City: self-published, 2007. Zine. Produced in collaboration with Christopher Snow. You Can't Drink It If It's Frozen: the Dash Snow Purple Book. 2007. Olivier Zahm, Purple Fashion Magazine, and Janvier, 2007. The End of Living, the Beginning of Survival. Berlin: Contemporary Fine Arts, 2007. . I'd rather drink muddy water, and sleep in a hollow log. Self-published / Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, 2007. . Includes "Skeletal love" by Raina Hammer. God Spoiled a Perfect Asshole When He Put Teeth in Yer Mouth. Berlin/Los Angeles: Peres Projects Holdings, 2007. . Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Peres Projects, Los Angeles. Nest. New York City: Deitch Projects, 2008. With Dan Colen. . Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Deitch Projects, New York City, 2007. In the Softest Grey Petals of the Bomb, Lay Your Finger Across my Lips. Los Angeles: Peres Projects, 2009. . Polaroids. Berlin/Los Angeles: Peres Projects, 2009. . I love you, stupid!. New York City: D.A.P., 2012. . Cologne: Walther König, 2013. . Love Roses. New York City: Karma, 2015. . Selected Works From 2001 To 2009. Zurich: Nieves; Geneva: Innen, 2014. Second edition. Zurich: Nieves; Geneva: Innen, 2020. .

Exhibitions Solo exhibitions Silence is the only true friend that shall never betray you, Rivington Arms, New York City, 2006. Collages. Rivington Arms, New York City, 2006. Found materials, collages, sculptures and assemblages.

Group exhibitions USA Today, Royal Academy, London, 2006 Exercises on Democracy, a traveling exhibition, White House Biennial, Athens, Greece, 2013– Materialized: New Ameriacn Video and..., Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, 2008. Included Hamsters Nest by Snow. Curated by Kathy Grayson. Photographs. The Royal Collection of Graphic Arts, National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark, 2010

Collections Snow's work is held in the following public collections: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City Brooklyn Museum, New York City The Watermill Center