Bonnie Steinsnyder is from Miami, Florida. She received her BA from Smith College in Massachusetts, then a MFA from Queens College in New York. The wonders of New York City and the active art scene appealed to her, so she stayed. She went to the Art Students’ League to work from the figure as well as working in etching and photogravure, receiving the Nessa Cohen Grant and the David Smith Merit Scholarship.

Bonnie Steinsnyder’s solo exhibitions include the Lasdon Park and Arboretum, NY 2017, Loring Gallery, MA 2005, the Arsenal Gallery, NY 2004 and Rittenhouse Fine Art, PA 2001. Her watercolor work has recently been chosen for juried exhibitions in the National Watercolor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society, the American Watercolor Society, the Baltimore Watercolor Society Mid-Atlantic Exhibition, the North East Watercolor Society, the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, the Philadelphia Watercolor Society and the Adirondack Exhibition of American Watercolors. Other shows include The Queens Museum Best of the Annual Juried in 1989, New York Prints, Museum of the City of New York, NY 2002, and Traditional to Modern, the Monmouth Museum, NJ 2017. She has shown at John Szoke Gallery, NY 1990, Gallery Henoch 1990-93, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, NY 1999 as well as in the Salmagundi Annual Non-member Exhibition, NY 2016.

The 2022 National Watercolor Society’s International Juried Exhibition awarded her the Paul Jackson scholarship. She received the Holbein Artist Award from the North East Watercolor Society 2021. The Pennsylvania Watercolor Society selected her work for the Bernie Tyler award in 2021.

Collections include the Museum of the City of NY, Marsh and McLennan Securites, the Brooklyn Marriot, and many private collections.

She currently teaches at the 92nd St Y, the WestSide YMCA and has a group of private students. Bonnie lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter. Her studio is in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn.