Sarah Cowan is a video producer, filmmaker, and arts writer based in New York.
sgcowan [at] gmail
Producing and Directing
Sarah is the Senior Video Producer at the Museum of Modern Art, were she oversees MoMA's video team, executes the museum's content strategy for video, and produces content to build and engage audiences. As part of the Creative Team, she manages the creative development, strategy, and production of the MoMA's multiple film and broadcast series.
Previously, she was a Producer/Editor in Digital Content at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She directed and produced Met Stories, an award-winning, year-long video series made on the occasion of The Met’s 150th anniversary and produced the web feature MetCollects. Previously, she was a video editor and shooter and worked on the series The Artist Project, 82nd & Fifth, and Connections.
Writing
With a focus on art, film, and books, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker Culture Desk, NYR Daily, The Paris Review, Bookforum, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Modern Painters, and Riot of Perfume. See clips here.
Her peer-reviewed essay on Gordon Matta-Clark and Aaron Siskind was published in the MIT Department of Art & Architecture’s journal, Thresholds #47. Sarah has also written the accompanying text for Emily Ludwig Shaffer's show at Galerie Pact in Paris and the essay for the catalog of Annelies Kamen's work, supported by the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt.
Filmmaking
Sarah is working on a documentary film with Stephanie Wuertz about the American painter Albert Pinkham Ryder. Their short film featuring Bill Jensen speaking about the impact Ryder has had on him was on view at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in the exhibition A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art.