Press & Publications

Selected press, interviews, and reviews

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  Sean Fader Brings a Queer Galactic Uprising to ParisWith Wit We Rise

  On With Wit We Rise: The Fabulous Rebellion of the F.A.G. at Brigitte Mulholland, Paris.

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  Katy Donoghue, Whitewall

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  Joy, Community, & Memory: Sean Fader's Queer American MemorialsQueer American Memorials

  You can keep trying to erase us, but we remain.

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  Ken Krantz, Whitehot Magazine

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  Sean Fader by Ksenia M. SobolevaSugar Daddy

  I always think about social media as a tool and a weapon. Ultimately, I’m still optimistic about it... It’s a way to feel seen in a cis het norm sea.

  Read the interview ↗  ·  PDF  Interview, BOMB Magazine

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  Fast food love: l'amour consommé à la chaîneSup?

  Sean Fader interviewed for ARTE Europe.

  Watch the interview ↗  ·  PDF  Tracks, ARTE Europe

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  At Wrightwood 659, artists explore what it means to live in a digital worldInsufficient Memory

  “I did this by myself and cried at every location,” Fader said. “I feared for my life sometimes and thought about the fear they must have felt, and I felt this sense of responsibility to share their stories.”

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  Block Club Chicago

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  Sean Fader memorializes LGBTQ+ history with Insufficient MemoryInsufficient Memory

  Interview on Insufficient Memory and the Wrightwood 659 presentation of Difference Machines.

  Read the interview ↗  Jerry Nunn, Windy City Times

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  Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary ArtInsufficient Memory

  Fader also created an online Google Map to help others learn the histories that he drove 25,000 miles around the country to discover.

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  Charlotte Kent, The Brooklyn Rail

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  Viewfinder: Sean Fader and Queer Visibility in the Age of the Digital PhotographCatalog essayThirst/Trap

  With its ubiquity, the digital photograph has hypercharged the circulation and consumption of images, tipping us to a new pictographic disposition.

  Read the essay ↗  ·  PDF  David Getsy, Thirst/Trap exhibition catalogue, Denny Dimin Gallery

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  Multiple Exposures: Sean Fader’s #wishingpelt and Humor in Social Media PerformanceJournal article#wishingpelt

  I’ve compared #wishingpelt to a Trojan Horse because it was accepted gleefully as a gift, a gag, or an opportunity for humor.

  Read the paper ↗  ·  PDF  David Getsy, ASAP/Journal

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  Sean Fader’s practice celebrates and interrogates digital technologyBest LivesInsufficient Memory

  “Queer stories are not only erased by lack of media coverage. Queer erasure happens a second round in the advent of digital technology, and our expectations that all histories are digitised.”

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  British Journal of Photography

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  The Digital Limits of Queer Trauma and CelebrationBest LivesInsufficient Memory

  Sean Fader uses two photographic series to bookend a transformative two decades of LGBTQIA history through the lens of digital photography and its role in queer representation.

  Read the interview ↗  ·  PDF  Humble Arts Foundation

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  Sean Fader Explores a New Queer Narrative With ‘Thirst/Trap’Thirst/Trap

  Both series (created in tandem) comment on the idea of archive: who has history prioritized, how are they remembered, and by whom?

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  WWD

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  Facing the Black Mirror: Sean Fader’s Awesome Year365 Profile Pics

  Despite comprising some 365 images of the artist’s face, the expansive artwork reveals very little about Fader himself, turning its lens instead onto contemporary culture, image making, and consumption.

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  ArtSlant

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  Occupying Offices: Independent vs. Spring/Break365 Profile Pics

  Armory Week report featuring Fader's Spring/Break presentation of 365 Profile Pics.

  Read the article ↗  Paul Laster, Whitehot Magazine

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  Is this art? Selling other people’s online picsBackdrop

  The BBC on Richard Prince's New Portraits and Fader's response.

  PDF  BBC News

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  Querying the New Appropriation Art: Is this Cynicism?Backdrop

  In topping up Prince’s own appropriation of the performance, Fader shapes a dialogue on display value and contemporary strategies of (self)-promotion.

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  Joseph Henry, MOMUS

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  A Young Artist Debuts at Gagosian, Thanks to Richard PrinceBackdrop

  On Backdrop for the Rebirth of the Collective Author, Fader's answer to Richard Prince's New Portraits.

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  Benjamin Sutton, Hyperallergic

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  Queer art now, for better and worseI Want To Put You On

  A survey of queer art that takes up Fader's zippered self-portraits in Strange Bedfellows.

  Read the article ↗  Yasmin Nair, Chicago Reader

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  Fantasy Versus Reality in the Online Dating WorldSup?

  Slate's photography column profiles Sup?, a year of blind-date portraits made through dating sites.

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  David Rosenberg, Slate

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  Sean Fader Explores The Art Of Online Dating In 'Sup?'Sup?

  On the year-long dating-site portrait project Sup?.

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post

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  PHOTOS: The Art Of Hooking UpSup?

  Queerty on Sup? and the art of hooking up.

  Read the article ↗  Les Fabian Brathwaite, Queerty

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  Giving New Artists a Place to Be NoticedWe Are Untitled

  On First Look II at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, an early selection of the best new artists in the US.

  Read the article ↗  ·  PDF  Catherine Spaeth, The New York Times