Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist whose narrative imagery invites viewers on surreal and mysterious journeys where time and space are fluid. Her work focuses on the intersection of memory, identity, history, and imagination.She was born in Boston and studied both art history and photography at Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, DC. She spent time in her 20's studying and working at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Biennale in Venice, Italy, where she first started photographing seriously. Hadley worked at the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress and as a photojournalist for a newspaper in Virginia before moving to Chicago in 1996, where she founded the Filter Photo Festival. During her time in Chicago, she received Illinois Arts Council and Chicago Artist Grants, as well as several Fellowships to the Ragdale Foundation. She collaborated with Susan Tillett, then the Director of Ragdale, on a book called The Ragdale House Speaks, which was published in 2012. In 2008, she moved to Los Angeles to photograph the Time Out Los Angeles Guidebook. In 2020, her first monograph Lost Venice was published by Damiani Editore.
Recently, Hadley's photographs have been exhibited in art fairs in Italy, France, Portugal, China, China, Argentina and Australia, as well in galleries and museums around the US - in solo exhibitions at the Richard Levy Gallery (Albuquerque), Afterimage Gallery (Dallas), the Griffin Museum of Photography (Boston), the dnj Gallery (Santa Monica), and Fabrik Projects Gallery (LA), as well as in group exhibitions at the Hyde Collection, Danforth Museum, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Building Bridges Art Exchange (LA) and the Robin Rice Gallery (NY). Her work is held in museums, corporate & private collections, has been published in Le Monde, ELLE Italia, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Photo District News (PDN), The Oxford American, B+W Magazine, Harper’s, Lenscratch.com and was recently interviewed on Mountain Lake PBS.
In addition to her studio practice, Hadley has curated exhibitions in the US, France and China and she produces Exposure, the Los Angeles Center of Photography’s annual Portfolio Review weekend. Hadley has juried Critical Mass and the Photo Place Gallery, and been a portfolio reviewer at SPE National and the Lishui Photo Festival in China. She has written articles for Lenscratch.com and Don't Take Pictures magazine, as well as book reviews and interviews for Publisher's Weekly and F-Stop Magazine. She mentors individual artists on career and marketing strategies and works with photography centers, fairs and institutions on strategic planning, fundraising, marketing and social media.
Hadley lives in the mountains of LA, but treasures the ability to dip her toes in the Pacific Ocean on a regular basis. She is currently working on a project about her childhood growing up in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Her family moved to the top floor of the museum in 1970 (where her father had just become the Director) and she was fortunate enough to spend the next 18 years surrounded by paintings by Rembrandt, Titian, Whistler, and Sargent.
Representation -
Afterimage Gallery - Dallas, Texas
Alta Vista Arts - Los Angeles, California
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