biography

Lauren Raye Snow is an artist and designer from South Texas. Her work explores uncanny, ambivalent visions, both dreadful and cathartic.

She currently serves as Art Director for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA). In 2020, she led their brand redesign, and has art directed each Nebula Conference since (and one Worldcon for good measure). In 2023, her work earned her a spot as a finalist in the World Fantasy Awards.

She is inspired by the Symbolists and the Pre-Raphaelites, by the Catholic and Indigenous religious icons of her native South Texas, and by works of terror and beauty in literature, myth, and music.

You can find Lauren sleeping in a moss-covered, hollowed-out log on the outskirts of a field upon which sits a crumbling, haunted manor house. Actually, you can’t find her there — she’s disappeared. You can try Twitter and Instagram, but no guarantees.

Curriculum Vitae

Exhibitions

2023 Strange Agonies: Works by Lauren Raye Snow | Rojo Gallery [solo show], San Antonio, TX

2022 WindyCon Artist Guest of Honor | Chicago, IL

2022 ArmadilloCon Artist Guest of Honor | Austin, TX

2020 The Catacomb Saints | The Parish Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2020 Oddities of San Antonio | Híjole SA, San Antonio, TX

2020 A Gallery of Ice and Fire | Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX

2018 Infinite Worlds: The Art of the Fantastic | Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX

Publications

2023 Infected By Art, Volume 11

2023 Locus Magazine | Spotlight Feature, October issue

2023 Apex Magazine | Cover Illustration, July issue

2021 Mermaids Monthly, Cover Illustration | December Issue

2021 New Gothic Review, Volume 3

2021 New Gothic Review, Volume 2

Awards

2023 World Fantasy Award Finalist

2022 First Prize, SmArt School BiAnnual Art Prize

2020 Chesley Award Nominee

2018 Official Selection: The Mexicanx Intiative | WorldCon 76, San Jose, CA

Education

2010 Bachelor of Arts, University of the Incarnate Word