BIO

Sean Fader is currently an Assistant Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Department of Photography and Imaging.  Fader received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his MA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and his BFA from the New School in New York City.   

 

Fader’s upcoming solo show will be at  Brigitte Mulholland Gallery in Paris, where he is represented. His last solo show, Sugar Daddy: Dear Danielle, was at Denny Gallery.  Fader’s work Insufficient Memory is currently touring in Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art, which originated at the Buffalo AKG Museum. His work was selected by Michalene Thomas to be included in the Brooklyn Artist Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.  His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in Dubai, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, France, and England.  His exhibition history includes Peep Show at Anton Kern Gallery, THIRST/TRAP at Denny Gallery (solo), Insufficient Memory (solo) at Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, On the Map at Denny Gallery Hong Kong, 365 Profile Pics (solo) at SPRING/BREAK Art Show with Denny Gallery in NYC, WishingPelt (solo) at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, and White Boys at Haverford College. Fader was named a NYFA Fellow in 2013 and A Blade of Grass Fellow for 2012-2013, and he received the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Award for Emerging Photographers in 2012. Fader has been awarded prestigious residencies at Art Omi, Bemis Center for the Contemporary Arts, Yaddo, Stove Works, and The Wassaic Project. He has received press coverage in MOMUS, NYTimes, Hyperallergic, British Journal of Photography, Art F City, Humble Arts Foundation, the Huffington Post, WWD, and Slate.