Sean Fader. Insufficient Memory, 2020. Interactive Google tour. Courtesy of the artist and Antenna, New Orleans, LA. © Sean Fader. (Photo: Timothy Doyon)
The Department of Photography & Imaging proudly announces that Professor Sean Fader's artwork, "Insufficient Memory," is featured in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
The exhibition is on view from October 4, 2024 –January 26, 2025 in Great Hall on 1st Floor.
About the Exhibition
Prepare to be dazzled by the inaugural edition of The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, illuminating the unparalleled breadth of talent in our borough. Uniting more than 200 artists, this major group show highlights the remarkable creativity and diversity of Brooklyn’s populace. The exhibition kicks off our 200th anniversary celebration and carries on the Brooklyn Museum’s tradition of amplifying voices from every corner of our community.
Spotlighting artists who have lived or maintained a studio in Brooklyn during the last five years (2019–24), The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition honors the borough’s dynamic present, storied past, and bright future. Selected by a committee led by esteemed artists Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli, participants represent a full range of disciplines, from drawing and painting to sculpture, video, installation, and beyond. Their creations tackle themes that resonate on both local and global levels—migration and memory, identity and history, uncertainty and turbulence, healing and joy. Together these works capture the vibrancy of both Brooklyn and its artists, who are bound by deep-rooted connections and a shared love of this singular place.
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition is organized by Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli and coordinated by Sharon Matt Atkins, Deputy Director for Art; Lauren Bierly, Senior Exhibition Project Manager; and Jennie Tang, Special Exhibition Administrator; with support from Kimberli Gant, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art; Carmen Hermo, former Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; and Catherine Morris, Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
About Insufficient Memory, 2020
Sean Fader’s project Insufficient Memory focuses on queerness in an era of geolocation, digital histories, rapid technological advancements, online dating, and ever-shifting norms in gender and sexuality. It allows viewers to traverse the country virtually through photographs the artist took across twenty-five thousand miles in thirty-eight states at sites where queer people were murdered between 1999 and 2000.