Sean Fader is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, performance, installation, and emerging technologies. Through staged photographs, participatory encounters, and networked forms of display, his work examines how identity is performed and archived—especially within queer cultural practice—and how public memory is constructed, erased, or fought for in contemporary life. His projects often unfold across multiple platforms, including exhibitions, public interventions, and interactive digital layers, treating the photographic image as both evidence and event.

Fader’s recent work includes Insufficient Memory, a long-term project that traces unmarked sites connected to anti-LGBTQ+ violence and asks what it means to remember when the archive is incomplete. Works from Insufficient Memory are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. He is currently developing Queer American Memorials, a memorial initiative that places site markers embedded with NFC and augmented reality experiences, creating a living, distributed archive rooted in place and built with community participation.

Fader is represented by Brigitte Mulholland Gallery (Paris), where he recently presented With Wit We Rise, a camp-infused sci-fi epic told through staged photographs and immersive installations, featuring a mythic cast of queer protagonists and speculative histories that blend satire, glamour, and political allegory. He is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Photography & Imaging).