Tracey Snelling

«[…] Through the use of sculpture, video, installation, and performance, I give my impression of a place, its people and their experience. Often, the cinematic image stands in for real life as it plays out behind windows in the buildings, sometimes creating a sense of mystery, other times stressing the mundane. My work derives from voyeurism, film noir, and geographical and architectural location. Within this idea of location, themes develop of a particular locale’s inhabitants: Who lives here? What do they do, and why?

These questions transport observation into the realm of storytelling. I explore place, people, and culture through the use of scale and repetition of a theme, creating new realities that change with the viewer’s perception. Utilizing video, sound, and manipulation of size, I am not trying to replicate a place; rather I give my impression of a place, its people and their experience, and allow the viewer to extrapolate his or her own meaning. […]» Tracey Snelling
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Available works

Installazioni

Available works


  • Tenement Rising, 2016

    Mixed media with video
    325 x 240 x 135 cm


  • Communist apartment #1, 2013

    In collaboration with Idan Levin
    Mixed media with video
    52 x 40,5 x 56 cm


  • Communist apartment #2, 2013

    In collaboration with Idan Levin
    Mixed media with video
    47 x 53 x 80 cm


  • Tokyo, 2012

    In collaboration with Idan Levin
    Mixed media sculpture with video
    50 x 120 x 40 cm


  • Serial Killer Room - Fantasy Mirror Room - Club, 2018

    Mixed media sculpture with video
    20 x 80 x 26 cm


  • Rainy Night, 2013

    Mixed media sculpture with video
    40,5 x 43 x 51 cm


  • MIS Döner Kebap, 2018

    Mixed media sculpture with video
    38 x 32 x 45 cm


  • Chongqing Nights, 2018

    Mixed media wall sculpture with video
    Ed. 1/5, 2 AP
    48 x 58 x 9 cm


  • CD 36_PEL_6482

    Tecnica mista, con sonoro
    Mixed media, with sound
    18 x 29 x 23 cm


  • PEL_0835

    Tecnica mista, con video e sonoro
    Mixed media, with video and sound
    20 x 47 x 28 cm


  • La Musée 2, 2020

    Installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona


  • Metropolis, 2019

    Installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona


  • Metropolis, 2019

    Installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona

    Publications

    News

  • During Milan Design Week 2025, inside the Seletti showroom at Corso Garibaldi 117, the installation Hotel Voyeur will be presented: the new Seletti lamp created in collaboration with American artist Tracey Snelling, inspired by the façade of a hotel, where the windows come to life with short looping videos.

    Exclusively for Milan Design Week, visitors will also have the chance to personalize the lamp by adding their own video, thus creating a unique piece.

  • The Municipality of Verona – Department for Gender Equality – in collaboration with ArtiVer, is promoting the distributed exhibition project Freedom, as part of the activities dedicated to International Women’s Rights Day.

    Studio la Città participates in the exhibition project, which is spread across the contemporary art galleries in the city, by presenting an exhibition on Saturday, March 8, at 11 a.m., featuring 7 female artists – Marcela Cernadas (1967), Sonia Terk Delaunay (1885-1979), Anna Galtarossa (1975), Julia Mangold (1966), Lorenza Sannai (1969), Tracey Snelling (1970), Hema Upadhyay (1972-2015) – and 1 male artist, Filippo Tommasoli (1990).

  • After the significant resonance of her recent installations in Venice – About Us, a project curated by Luca Massimo Barbero for The Human Safety Net at the Procuratie Vecchie – at the GAM in Verona – CONTEMPORANEO NON-STOP. Il respiro della natura | ARIA – and the success of her latest solo exhibition How We Live at Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin, the American artist Tracey Snelling is planning new solo exhibitions overseas, in Toronto and Shanghai, in the near future.

  • Tracey Snelling is among the artists selected by curator Rick Gerardus for THE CITIES WRAPPED AROUND OUR BODIES, a multi-disciplinary exhibition and festival taking place from January 25–29, 2025, at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin. The event brings together artists from Kottbusser Tor – the symbol square of Berlin’s Kreuzer district -, and around the world to explore topical themes such as self-representation, counter-surveillance, exile, and cultural labor in times of conflict.

     

     

     

     

  • Presented in the exhibition area INNOVA by la città projects at ArtVerona 2024, American artist Tracey Snelling has caught the attention of Marval Collection, which decided to award her work, and in particular the opera Flaghouse Room #2 (2016), with the prestigious Marval Collection Award, that supports the system of contemporary art through an intense program of acquisitions.

    For more info CLICK HERE

  • Tracey Snelling presents her new solo exhibition entitled How We Live at Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin on view through Feb. 9, 2025.
    In her works, the artist examines issues related to public housing by paying particular attention to the social relationships of the individuals who live there.

  • About Us is the new art project created by Tracey Snelling for The Home of The Human Safety Net, which complements the interactive exhibition A World of Potential at the Procuratie Vecchie in San Marco square. It will be on display for visitors until March 24, 2025.

  • Tracey Snelling’s work Chongqing Nights will be on display within the exhibition Look out, see in, a solo show by the Romanian artist Cristian Avram, hosted in the exhibition spaces of Boccanera Gallery Milano. On view from 24 November 2023 to 13 January 2024.

  • An important work by Tracey Snelling is on display at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna Achille Forti in Verona as part of the CONTEMPORANEO NON-STOP. Il respiro della natura | ARIA curated by Patrizia Nuzzo. The show opens on October 7, 2023 and runs until 15 December, 2024.

  • Tracey Snelling was invited to participate in the Suddenly Wonderful exhibition on the occasion of the reopening of the Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, with the work Bierpinsel, created especially for this occasion. The exhibition opens on May 26 and runs until September 18, 2023.

  • As part of a 12-month collaboration, the MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo – opens its doors to Swatch Art Peace Hotel, the Swatch artists residency project. Among the participants also the artist Tracey Snelling with a recent work of the 2020 Lost Year Motel + sign. 01 October > 24 October 2021, MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts – Rome.

  • A Poem is a City is a short film by Tracey Snelling and Arthur Debert, produced by Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Set to a narration of Charles Bukowski’s A Poem is a City, Snelling becomes a character in her mini cityscapes… WATCH THE FILM

  • Tracey Snelling will participate in the 58th Venice Art Biennale with her solo show Shanghai/Chongqing Hot Pot/Mixtape supported and promoted by Swatch.
    May 11 – November 24, 2019 | Sala d’Armi – Arsenale, Venice