Laura Josephine Snyder lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia. In her work she explores memory, emotion, and cognition through visual abstraction. Referencing cartography and drawing on two decades of engagement with Eastern philosophy and mind-body practices, she inquires into the ways in which the signs and symbols found in our physical environment influence the movements of our minds and bodies. She is currently engaged in a study of natural pigments, their historical significance and their intrinsic reference to place.

Snyder’s master’s thesis, titled Rastros de Viaje: Alucinaciones Cartográficas y la Memoria como Palimpsesto (Traces of Journey: Cartographic Hallucinations and Memory as Palimpsest), 2011 explored map-making across cultures and the ways in which artists have incorporated maps into their work in order to question assumed versions of reality and power structures.

She has shown her work nationally and internationally, including in Mexico City, Mexico, Bogotá, Colombia, Asheville, North Carlolina, and Richmond, Virginia. She has a MFA from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) and a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.