Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist whose narrative imagery invites viewers on surreal and mysterious journeys where time and space are fluid. Her work focuses on the intersection of memory, identity, history, and imagination. She was born in Boston and studied both art history and photography at Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, DC. She spent time in her 20s studying and working at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Biennale in Venice, Italy, where she first started photographing seriously. Sarah worked at the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress and as a photojournalist for a newspaper in Virginia before moving to Chicago in 1996, where she founded the Filter Photo Festival. 

Sarah’s photographs have been exhibited in art fairs in Italy, France, Portugal, China, China, Argentina and Australia, as well in galleries and museums around the US – in solo exhibitions at the Richard Levy Gallery, Afterimage Gallery, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the dnj Gallery, and Fabrik Projects Gallery, as well as in group exhibitions at the Hyde Collection, Danforth Museum, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Building Bridges Art Exchange, and the Robin Rice Gallery. Her work is held in museums, corporate and private collections, has been published in Le Monde, ELLE Italia, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Photo District News, The Oxford American, B+W Magazine, Harper’s, Lenscratch.com and she was recently interviewed on Mountain Lake PBS.