Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman (b. Philadelphia, 1986) helps make interventions, essays, performances, poems, films, and installations with/in overwritten and denied places and materials, tracing local experience to and from entangled catastrophes. His contributions establish difficult situations for durational contemplation and vernacular rites, manifesting a quiet language of intense proximity over time by tending accidents, anxieties, and memory.

Works include Lost in Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee (2016–19); the film Night Herons (2020–21), recipient of the 2024 ING Polish Art Foundation Prize, created with Joanna Rajkowska; the public memorial project Wierzba Estery / Esther’s Willow (2018–), created with Katarzyna Sala and Marta Sala; a silent walk and sonic composition يان الصعود الى السماء flight manifesto (2019–25), created with Dirar Kalash et al.; and خاکی خەیاڵکراو Imagined Land Axa Xeyal Kirin (2023–), created with Nastaran Saremy. These and other works have been exhibited or supported by institutions such as Canadian Kurdish Community Center, FestivALT, House of Taswir, Municipal Public Library in Chrzanów, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, L’Internationale (confederation of European museums), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, steirischer herbst, Tucson Jewish History Museum and Holocaust Center, Urban Memory Foundation, and Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.

Sniderman holds an MFA in Literary Art from Brown University where he studied experimental poetics and theater under the late C.D. Wright and playwright Erik Ehn. He is Assistant Professor in Socially Engaged Art at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Washington University. In 2023-24, he served as Visiting Professor at the Institut für Kunst im Kontext (Institute for Art in Context), Universität der Künste (University of the Arts) Berlin.