Sean Fader

Statement

In today’s media-saturated environment, where the private is regularly broadcast as public, we are constantly reminded that social media is altering our capacity to know others. My work attempts to undermine the dissociative, alienating, and distancing aspects of social media and photography by creating the space for real-life, personal exchange—all with an ironic wink to the viewer—using the facade of self-obsessed reality TV and selfie culture. I put my queer male body between the framework of photography, performance, social media identities, and Internet celebrity culture to make space for sincerity in the heart of the social media spectacle.

GlogauAIR Project

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CV Summary

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2017
  365 Profile Pics, Spring/Break Art Show with Denny Gallery, NYC
• 2016
  #Fernwings, Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE
  Yes Gaga!, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, Fl
  #Fernwings, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
• 2015
  Backdrop for the Rebirth of the Collective Author (“There’s a Whole Lot of Authorship Going On.” – Richard Prince), Spring Break Art Show, NY, NY
• 2014
  SUP?, University of Illinois, Springfield, IL
  #wishingpelt, Curated by Elizabeth Denny, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
  #wishingpelt, Pulse Project, Pulse Art Fair, Sponsored by AKArt, New York, NY
• 2013
  Sean Fader is the Wishing Pelt, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 2012
  Guided Blind Date, Iron Maiden Artist Tours, New York, NY
• 2010
  OPA!, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL
• 2009
  I Want To Put You On, Digital Artists Space, Troy, NY
• 2008
  I Want To Put You On, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY

RESIDENCES / FELLOWSHIPS

• 2017
  GlogauAIR, Berlin, GER
• 2016
  Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
• 2015
  The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
  Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
• 2014
  The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
• 2013
  NYFA Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
  A Blade of Grass Fellowship, New York, NY
• 2008
  Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

PERFORMANCES

• 2016
  #Fernwings, Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE
  Yes Gaga!, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL
  #Fernwings, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
• 2015
  Backdrop for the Rebirth of the Collective Author (“There’s a Whole Lot of Authorship Going On.” – Richard Prince), Residency Unlimited, NY, NY
  Backdrop for the Rebirth of the Collective Author (“There’s a Whole Lot of Authorship Going On.” – Richard Prince), Denny Gallery, LES, NY
  Backdrop for the Rebirth of the Collective Author (“There’s a Whole Lot of Authorship Going On.” – Richard Prince), Spring Break Art Show, NY, NY
• 2014
  #wishingpelt, Curated by Elizabeth Denny, Spring/Break Art Show, NY, NY
  #wishingpelt, Pulse Project, Pulse Art Fair, Sponsored by AKArt, NY, NY
• 2013
  Sean Fader is the Wishing Pelt, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 2010
  OPA!, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2018
  upcoming, Apparatus for a Utopian Image 2, Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague, CZ
  You Never Know How You Look Through Other People’s Eyes, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art (MECA), Portland, ME
  Beverly’s at Material Art Fair, Curated by Beverly’s, Material Art Fair, Mexico City, MEX
• 2017
  Facial Profiling, C24 Gallery, Chelsea, NY
• 2016
  The Final Phase: Apparatus for a Utopian Image, Curated by: Tereza Jindrová, Pavla Sceranková, Dušan Zahoranský, EFA Project Space, NY, NY
  Drama Queer: seducing social change, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
  Picture Yourself: Selfies, Cellphones, and the Digital Age, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster OH
  Revision Space Pittsburgh, PA
  Tasteful Yet Biting, Cruxspace, Philadelphia, PA
• 2015
  … and I Feel Fine, Curated by Ghost of a Dream, Re Institute, Millerton, NY
  Transgressive Inversions + Identities, Curated by AKArt, Spring/Break Art Show, New York
  Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
  I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours: Love In The Modern Age, Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, Saskatchewan, CAN
  SWAP, Studio La Suite, Morelia, Mexico
• 2014
  New Portraits, Organized by Richard Prince, Gagosian Madison Avenue, NYC
  #wishingpelt, Curated by Elizabeth Denny, Spring/Break Art Show, NY, NY
  Manly Men, Girly Girls, and Everybody in Between, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
  Trade pics? Photography as interpersonal space, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
  Strange Bedfellows, FIU, Florida International University, Miami, FL
  Strange Bedfellows, Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
  Strange Bedfellows, A+D Gallery Columbia College, Chicago, IL
• 2013
  Strange Bedfellows, Samek Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
  Strange Bedfellows, Roots and Culture Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  How To Do Things With Hair, Curated by Barrak Alzaid, The Jam Jar, Dubai
  The Participants, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
  White Boys, Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha L Logan, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
  Dynasty, Curated by Sara Reisman, Christopher K. Ho, Amy Goldrich, and Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Hotel Particulier, New York, NY
  Fon’ Seks: Handheld Digital Technology and the Transformation of Intimacy, University of Illinois, Springfield, IL
  Looks Like Torture, Here Arts Center, New York, NY
• 2012
  Heterocronia, Studio La Suite, Morelia, Mexico
  It’s a Small Small World, Family Business, New York, NY
• 2010
  Undressing the Feminine, Mindy Solomon Gallery, St Petersburg, FL
• 2009
  The Wassaic Summer Show, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
  City Arts Benefit Auction, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
  Your Face Your Race, the Way That You Walk, VINESpace, London, England
• 2008
  Salon 08, Matt Roberts Arts, VINESpace, London, England
  11th Annual Chicago Art Open (Critic’s’ Choice), Chicago IL
  Hic et Nunc (Here and Now), Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
  Everyday People, Estudiotres, Chicago, IL
  Yes, Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago, IL
• 2007
  First Look II, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
  Group Show no. 16, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
  This is Not a Self Portrait, Project Space, Chicago, IL
  Group Show, Gallery Two, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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