Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, MFA

he/him, Assistant Professor in Socially Engaged Art

About

Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman (b. Philadelphia, 1986) makes interventions, essays, performances, poems, films, civic rituals, and installations with/in overwritten and denied places and materials, tracing local experience to and from entangled catastrophes. Often in collaboration with other artists and specific communities, his contributions establish difficult situations for durational contemplation and vernacular rites, manifesting a quiet language of intense proximity over time by tending accidents, anxieties, and memory.

Works include Lost in Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee (2016–19); Night Herons (2020–21), recipient of the ING Polish Art Foundation Main Prize for 2024 Warsaw Gallery Weekend, created with Joanna Rajkowska; Wierzba Estery / Esther’s Willow (2018–), created with Katarzyna Sala and Marta Sala; يان الصعود الى السماء flight manifesto (2019–25), created with Dirar Kalash et al.; WE SEE / WIR SEHEN / ΕΜΕΙΣ ΒΛΕΠΟΥΜΕ (2023–25), created with Adi Liraz; and خاکی خەیاڵکراو Imagined Land Axê Xeyal Kirǐ (2023–), created with Nastaran Saremy.

These and other projects have been exhibited by 48 Stünden Neukölln (GE), Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University (CA), De Kijkdoos Public Space (NL), FestivALT (PL), Lokal 30 (PL), Municipal Library of Chrzanów (PL), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (KR), steirischer herbst (AT), SAHMAT (IND), and Western Gallery at Western Washington University (US); and supported by local institutions and organizations such as Canadian Kurdish Community Centre, Cascadia Deaf Nation (US), House of Taswir (GE), Irena and Mieczysław Mazaraki Museum (PL), Urban Memory Foundation (PL), and zapomniane (PL). Works are in the permanent collections of Arsenał Gallery in Białystok, ING Polish Art Foundation, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Yerachmiel Sniderman holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, where at both institutions he studied poetics and playwriting. He is a PhD candidate in contemporary art at Simon Fraser University (CA) and an assistant professor in socially engaged art at Western Washington University's Fairhaven College of interdisciplinary Studies, teaching experiential, participatory, peripatetic, and process-oriented studio seminars and global learning programs. In 2023-24, he served as Visiting Professor at the Institut für Kunst im Kontext (Institute for Art in Context), Universität der Künste (University of the Arts) Berlin.

Courses Offered 

FAIR 201 Artistic Research; FAIR 202A Installing Memory*; FAIR 203A Social Relationships & Responsibilities: Theme - Art & Power; FAIR 337 Berlin: City of Remembering and Forgetting (Global Learning Program); FAIR 336H Walking in Ethnocidal Places*; FAIR 336V Constructing Interventions; FAIR 336V Durational Contemplation; FAIR 336V Visual & Sonic Poetics.

*taught annually (all others biennially)

 

 

Portrait by Cheong Kin Man, 2024