biography
Lauren Raye Snow is an artist from San Antonio, Texas. Her work explores uncanny, ambivalent visions, both dreadful and cathartic. She draws inspiration from the Symbolists and the Surrealists, from the Catholic and Indigenous spiritual icons of her native Texas, and from works of terror and beauty in literature, myth, and music.
When she isn’t painting or drawing, Lauren is also a student of Romanticism, the Gothic, and its related historic and artistic movements, speaking at literary and genre conferences across the United States. This historical and literary focus informs her interdisciplinary artistic practice. She has been a finalist in the Chesley Awards and the World Fantasy Awards.
Exhibitions
2026 Ex Voto (solo show), Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2026 Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered, Parallel Play, San Antonio, TX
2025 Less is Always More, Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2025 Visiones Fantasticas: Contemporary Alebrijes, Golden Rose, San Antonio, TX
2025 Love Letter II, Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2024 Hundreds + Hundreds More Days Like These, Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2024 Mementomorium, Outrider Art in Space C7, San Antonio, TX
2024 Love Letter, Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2024 Illuminated: Portraits of Women, La Zona Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2023 Strange Agonies (solo show), Rojo Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2020 The Catacomb Saints, The Parish Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2020 Oddities of San Antonio, Tethered Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2018 Infinite Worlds: The Art of the Fantastic, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX
Awards
2025 Individual Artist Grantee, City of San Antonio
2023 World Fantasy Award Finalist
2023 Chesley Award Nominee
2022 First Prize, SmArt School BiAnnual Art Prize (1 of 2)
2022 First Prize, SmArt School BiAnnual Art Prize (2 of 2)
2020 Chesley Award Nominee
Publications
2026 Glasstire Top Five: March 12, 2026
2026 Glasstire, One Day in SA: Is Every Month Contemporary Art Month?
2025 Infected By Art, Volume 13
2024 Silent Spaces, Cover Illustration, book by Mary Robinette Kowal
2024 Haven Spec Magazine, Cover Illustration, May issue
2024 Infected By Art, Volume 12
2023 Infected By Art, Volume 11
2023 Locus Magazine, Spotlight Feature, October issue
2023 Apex Magazine. Cover Illustration, July issue
Education
2023 Mentorship with Greg Manchess
2022 Mentorship with Sam Weber
2010 Bachelor of Arts, University of the Incarnate Word