Laura Josephine Snyder (b.1983, Charlottesville, VA) explores cognition and bodily experience through a material-driven practice.

Her work engages with signs and symbols found in the physical environment–from signal flags to the smell of rain–visual and sensory languages which influence the movements of our minds and bodies. In her work these abstract or sensory languages are expanded, reversed or disrupted–inviting shifts of perspective.

Snyder’s master’s thesis Rastros de Viaje: Alucinaciones Cartográficas y la Memoria como Palimpsesto (Traces of Journey: Cartographic Hallucinations and Memory as Palimpsest), 2011 considered map-making across cultures and explored the ways in which artists have incorporated maps into their work in order to question assumed conventions and power structures, placing her own work–juxtaposing conventional maps and the personal experience of place–within that context.

She has shown her work nationally and internationally. In 2024 she had solo exhibitions at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville and Reynolds Gallery in 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.