Sarah Meister
Sarah Meister is an American curator and author, currently serving as the executive director of Aperture. She joined the organization in May 2021 after spending over twenty-five years at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Meister earned her AB in Art History from Princeton University.[2]
Career
[edit]Meister began her career at MoMA, where she curated numerous exhibitions focusing on photography and modernist movements.[3]
Meister has led efforts to reissue Robert Frank’s The Americans (1959) as an Aperture title, and, with editor in chief Michael Famighetti, oversaw a refresh of Aperture magazine’s design in summer 2024.[4][5][6] She played a key role in Aperture’s acquisition of its new headquarters.[7]
In addition to her curatorial work, Meister was the lead instructor for the online course “Seeing Through Photographs,” served as co-director of the August Sander Project, and is the founding host of the Aperture PhotoBook Club.[8][9]
Selected exhibitions
[edit]Some of her notable exhibitions include:
- Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946–1964 (2021)[10]
- Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures (2020)[11]
- Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction (co-curator, 2017)[12]
- One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers (2016)[13]
- From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola (co-curator, 2015)[14]
- Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light (2013)[15]
References
[edit]- ^ Greenberger, Alex (2021-01-28). "Longtime MoMA Photography Curator Departs to Direct Aperture Foundation". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ "Authors Sarah Meister | Art History Teaching Resources". arthistoryteachingresources.org. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ Lubow, Arthur (2021-01-28). "MoMA Photography Curator to Lead Aperture Foundation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ "Robert Frank's seminal photo series 'The Americans' to be reissued after $1m grant". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ Aperture, vol. 1, no. 1, 1952.
- ^ Aperture #255 - Summer 2024
- ^ Lubow, Arthur (2022-09-15). "Aperture Foundation Lands a New Headquarters". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ "Reimagining Aperture: In conversation with Sarah Meister". PGH Photo Fair. 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ "Video Fridays: PhotoBook Club | Fine Books & Collections". www.finebooksmagazine.com. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ Woodward, Richard B. (2021-06-16). "'Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946-1964' Review: The São Paulo Style". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ Luiselli, Valeria (2020-11-19). "Things as They Are". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 67, no. 18. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (April 13, 2017). "At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction". The New York Times.
- ^ Woodward, Richard B. (2016-12-20). "'One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers' Review: A Colorist's Black-and-Whites". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ Budick, Ariella (2015-07-22). "From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola, MoMA, New York — review". Financial Times. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (2013-03-07). "A Camera Ravenous for Emotional Depth". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-04-16.