Press
Remembering queer lives lost to hate
It's hard for me to speak (or write) about this work without tearing up. Bearing witness to these stories and spaces digs into your body.
Read the OpEd ↗ Sean Fader, OpEd, The Advocate
Sean Fader by Ksenia M. Soboleva
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 ↗ Interview, BOMB Magazine
Fast food love: l'amour consommé à la chaîne
Sean Fader interviewed for ARTE Europe.
Watch the interview ↗ Tracks, ARTE Europe
At Wrightwood 659, artists explore what it means to live in a digital world
“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 ↗ Block Club Chicago
Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art
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 ↗ Charlotte Kent, The Brooklyn Rail
Viewfinder: Sean Fader and Queer Visibility in the Age of the Digital Photograph
With its ubiquity, the digital photograph has hypercharged the circulation and consumption of images, tipping us to a new pictographic disposition.
Read the essay ↗ David Getsy, Thirst/Trap exhibition catalogue
Multiple Exposures: Sean Fader’s #wishingpelt and Humor in Social Media Performance
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 ↗ David Getsy
Sean Fader’s practice celebrates and interrogates digital technology
“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 ↗ British Journal of Photography
The Digital Limits of Queer Trauma and Celebration
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 ↗ Humble Arts Foundation
Sean Fader Explores a New Queer Narrative With ‘Thirst/Trap’
Both series (created in tandem) comment on the idea of archive: who has history prioritized, how are they remembered, and by whom?
Facing the Black Mirror: Sean Fader’s Awesome Year
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 ↗ ArtSlant
Querying the New Appropriation Art: Is this Cynicism?
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 ↗ Joseph Henry, MOMUS