THE PLATFORM

SPEAKER 2022

SARAH MEISTER

Sarah Meister is executive director of Aperture, following more than twenty-five years at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. At MoMA Sarah curated numerous exhibitions including Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography (2021); Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures (2020) and Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction (cocurator, 2017). Her publications have considered Gordon Parks (2020) Frances Benjamin Johnston (2019), the 1967 MoMA exhibition New Documents (2017), Bill Brandt (2013), and many more. She was the inaugural instructor for the acclaimed online course Seeing Through Photographs, and co-director of the August Sander Project, five-year research initiative at MoMA/Columbia University.