Pamela Sneed

Bio

Pamela Sneed is a New York-based poet, writer, and performer. She has been featured in the New York Times magazine, the New Yorker, Time Out, Bomb, Vibe, and on the cover of New York magazine. She also appeared in Artforum, Black Book, and the Huffington Post, and in Nikki Giovanni's, The 100 Best African American Poems. Sneed has hosted Queer Art Film at the IFC in New York City. She is author of Sweet Dreams, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, Kong & Other Works, chapbook Lincoln and the chaplet Gift. She has performed at Lincoln Center, P.S. 122, Ex-Teresa in Mexico City, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London among other places. Sneed taught at Sarah Lawrence College as a guest faculty member and is an online Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago teaching the courses Human Rights and Art and Writing Art. She was also a guest critic at Yale and Columbia Universities. Sneed both curated and performed poetry as part of the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays. She performed at the Highline as part of Zoe Leonard's event, I want a president. In 2016 she was a mentor/consultant for the Poet-Linc program at Lincoln Center and directed a final show at Lincoln Center Atrium. She was also a guest curator for a spoken word series in the Platforms Series at Dancespace on the impact of the AIDS crisis on art, and presented at a symposium at New York University on Humor and Politics. In summer 2016, Sneed received a residency at Denniston Hill. Sneed's visual work will be part of a group show Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in June 2017. Pamela is a Visiting Professor at Columbia School of the Arts 2017–18.