Laura Josephine Snyder lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia. In her work she explores memory, emotion, and cognition through visual abstraction. Referencing cartography, she and enquires 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.

She has shown her work nationally and internationally, including in Mexico City, Mexico, Bogotá, Colombia, Saint Petersburg, Florida, and Richmond, Virginia. She has a MFA from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.