Snowden Hodges, born in Baltimore in 1938, began
drawing and painting in the nineteen-sixty’s under the tutelage of several of the well-known Maryland
Realists including, Earl Hofmann, Joseph Sheppard, and other artists who studied with Jacques
Maroger. He attended The Maryland Institute College of Art on a Senatorial Scholarship and received a BFA, cum laude, in 1970 and an MFA in 1976. He has exhibited extensively nationally
and internationally. His solo exhibitions include exhibits at The British Institute of Florence in Italy, Gump's Gallery in
San Francisco, St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, The Queen Emma Gallery in Honolulu, and the Commons Gallery at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 2002 his solo exhibition at The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Snowden
Hodges: Florence and the Labors of Hercules,
received critical acclaim both in Honolulu and nationally.
His work has been
featured in many juried and group exhibitions, among them: The Contemporary Art Museum in Honolulu, The Hawaii State Art Museum,
The Phoenix-Chase Galleries Ltd., Baltimore, The Maryland Federation of Art Gallery in Annapolis, The Downtown Gallery of
the Delaware Art Museum, the Johns Hopkins University, the Brad Cooper Gallery in Tampa Florida, and the Sanyo Hoso Gallery,
in Takamatsu, Japan. In addition, his paintings have been selected eleven times for the prestigious annual "Artists
of Hawaii Exhibit" at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Many of his works are in important national and international private, public, and corporate collections,
including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, The Honolulu Academy of Arts,
the Hawaii State Art Museum, The First Hawaiian Bank, The Bank of Hawaii, Kagawa College in Shikoku, Japan, and the British
Institute of Florence, Italy.
Hodges has received honors for his paintings and drawings including awards from The Delaware Art Museum, The Artist’s Magazine,
The Brad Cooper Gallery in Florida, the “exit” gallery in Ohio, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and awards
in three exhibitions sponsored by the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce. In 1977 he was selected as the expedition
artist as part of a National Geographic Society team studying prehistoric Native American structures and astronomy in the
southwestern United States. He has received the Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and
the Arts -Acquisition Award four times.
In 2002 Hodges was the subject of a short documentary “One-Minute-Egg”, which was produced by PBS Hawaii in conjunction with Egg the Arts Show on national PBS.
In 2002 Hodges created Atelier Hawai’i, a program in classical realism. In this intensive, immersion
curriculum students learn time-honored techniques of drawing and painting. Since its inception the program has been
hugely successful receiving critical acclaim and drawing students from Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, Europe, and the US mainland.
Hodges currently resides in Honolulu and is
Professor of Art at the University of Hawai’i-Windward.
