Mary Snowden

Mary Snowden (born 1940) is an American artist based in the Bay Area. She was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. She is perhaps best known for her humorous collages about the suburbs and motherhood, and her oil paintings. More recently, she has used stitching to depict rural farm life.

Snowden was the first female artist to win the SECA Award from the Museum of Modern Art in 1974. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and her BA from Brown University. Snowden's notable past exhibitions have been at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1975), Gallery Henoch (1991), and the Braunstein/Quay Gallery (1997). Snowden is Professor Emeritus of Painting Drawing at the California College of Arts.