Sarah Hadley Zoom Presentation

Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles–based interdisciplinary artist working across photography, collage and painting. Her work explores memory, history, and the emotional resonance of interior and architectural spaces, often placing the female figure within layered visual narratives that examine identity, time, and perception.

Hadley holds degrees in art history and Italian from Georgetown University and photography from the Corcoran College / George Washington University. She has had solo exhibitions at Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, Afterimage Gallery in Dallas, the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, and dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. Her work has been presented in festivals and art fairs worldwide and her images have appeared in numerous publications including Elle Italia, Harper’s, Le Monde, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Lenscratch, and B+W Magazine. Hadley received grants from the California Center for Cultural Innovation and the Illinois Arts Council and several fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation. She currently teaches through the Los Angeles Center of Photography and Santa Fe Workshops.

Her first monograph Lost Venice was published by Damiani Editore (Bologna) in 2020 and is held in major public collections including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Getty Research Institute, the Huntington Library, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Hadley’s photographs are held in corporate and private collections worldwide. 

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 (as 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.