Stuart Snoddy's painting practice focuses on the complex self through a fantastical exploration of loneliness, family, otherness, and imagination. Acting as author and director, the artist integrates storytelling and fantasy into his paintings to illustrate a fabricated, exotic culture. With ties to the historical tradition of American illustration, academic painting, and cinema, his "pleasant fictions" portray people and environments—inspired by reality yet embellished by the artist's yearning imagination—that occupy their own world. Working with oil on paper, panel, and canvas as well as gouache on paper, often in small formats, Snoddy employs vibrant recurring color palettes that further animate his work via quick, energetic brushwork. Rather than simply illustrating pleasant memories that deteriorate or sour when over-scrutinized, Snoddy's observational paintings are snapshots of thoughts or memories formed by his consciousness. By not shying away from the fantastical, Snoddy's constructed fictions explore the nature of humans as cohesive intellectual and emotional beings.

Stuart Snoddy was born in 1981 in Honduras and lives in Indianapolis, IN. He received his BFA from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, IN, and his MFA from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL.

Snoddy has mounted solo and two-person exhibitions at Edington Gallery in Indianapolis, IN (2023); Massey Klein Gallery in New York, NY (2022); the Farmer Family Gallery at the Ohio State University at Lima in Lima, OH (2019); and the Harrison Center for the Arts in Indianapolis, IN (2019).

His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Indianapolis Art Center in Indianapolis, IN (2017), the McLean County Art Center in Bloomington, IL (2016), and the Harrison Center for the Arts in Indianapolis, IN (2016).

Snoddy’s art has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings, Hi-Fructose, and Booooooom.