About Sarah Hadley

Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of impermanence, memory and identity. Originally from Boston, Hadley received degrees in Art History and Italian from Georgetown University, and Photography from the Corcoran College of Art. She lived in Washington DC, Italy and the UK before moving to Chicago where she founded the Filter Photo Festival in 2009. Hadley has had solo shows in museums and galleries throughout the US including the Richard Levy
Gallery, Afterimage Gallery, the Loyola Museum of Art, the Griffin Museum of Photography, Fabrik Projects and the dnj Gallery. She’s exhibited in photography festivals in France, Italy, China, Australia, India and Portugal and been featured in numerous magazines, blogs and publications including: Le Monde, Elle Italia, L’Oeil de la Photographie and Lenscratch.

In 2020, her first monograph, Lost Venice, was published by Damiani Editore and is now in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the Getty Research library, the Huntington Library, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her photographs are held in public and private collections worldwide.

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