Mary Snowden (born 1940) is an American painter and educator.
She is known for works that use humor to explore issues of feminist identity and consumerism.
[5] Starting in the mid-1990s Snowden's paintings utilized 1940s and 1950s advertising imagery, focusing on the products, images, and fashions of the era to humorously critique limitations in cultural ideas about gender and homemaking.
[3][6] Around 2010, she started used stitching to depict rural farm life.
[9] Snowden is Professor Emeritus of Painting Drawing at the California College of the Arts.