Sean Fader

Sean Fader (b. Los Angels, CA, USA) 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.

His most recent 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.  Insufficient Memory is also currently up at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.  Fader will be included in the centennial show for the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 2024.  His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in Dubai, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, and England. 

His exhibition history includes Peep Show at Anton Kern Gallery, White Boys at Haverford College, and solo shows, THIRST/TRAP at Denny Gallery, Insufficient Memory at Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, On the Map at Denny Gallery Hong Kong, 365 Profile Pics at SPRING/BREAK Art Show with Denny Gallery in NYC and WishingPelt at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show.

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.