Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. She was born and raised in Boston and studied both art history and photography at Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, DC.

Hadley’s work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Loyola Museum of Art, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Richard Levy Gallery, Afterimage Gallery, Fabrik Projects, and the dnj Gallery. Hadley’s photographs have also been featured in publications around the globe including: Le Monde, Elle Italia, B+W Magazine, PDN, Harper’s, L’Oeil de la Photographie and Lenscratch.com. Her work has been shown at photo festivals in France, Italy, China, Australia, India and Portugal, and her photographs are held in numerous private and public collections worldwide. In addition, Hadley has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Chicago Artist Foundation, the California Center for Cultural Innovation, as well as several Fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation.

 In 2020, Hadley’s first monograph Lost Venice was published by Damiani. The book won several awards and is now in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Getty Research Library, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Huntington Library, among others.