Artist representation: who is selected and why
By Sasha Wolf
On the occasion of the Icelandic Photography Festival, the Gallerist Sasha Wolf will give a talk at the National Museum of Iceland. The lecture will be live-streamed from the National Museum YouTube channel.
In the lecture, Sasha Wolf shares her experience running the New York photography gallery. She will discuss the work of several different artists she has chosen to work with, the projects that these artists are working on and what it is about their work that influenced her choice. In the lecture, Sasha Wolf talks about different photographic traditions, book publishing and her approach to the art world. The lecture will be given in English.
After running the New York photography gallery, Sasha Wolf Gallery, for 10 years, Sasha transitioned to a private/pop-up model in 2017. Sasha represents 16 photographic artists, working to place their prints in museum and university collections, private and corporate collections and in individual homes. Sasha advises and collaborates with her artists on book projects, grant proposals and career goals. Sasha also works with an extended group of artists as a book and project editor and on other professional practices.
Sasha reviews and judges work for leading art institutions, universities and fairs numerous times a year and lectures and conducts artist's workshops around the country on professional practices and project development. Sasha's book, PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, now in its 3rd printing, was published by Aperture in the Fall of 2019, additionally, Sasha hosts a popular podcast of the same name.
Prior to her work in the fine art photography world, Sasha was a writer, director and producer in the film and television industries and an award winning short filmmaker. Her last short film, Joe, was nominated for the Palme d'Or du court métrage at Cannes and has screened all over the world.