sasha arden is a conservator of media and contemporary art, based in New York. They have worked with world-class institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Tate Modern, MCA Chicago, MOCA Los Angeles, and SFMOMA.

Recently completed projects include artworks by Jenny Holzer, American Artist, Ana Mendieta, Mona Hatoum, Paul Pfeiffer, Park Chan-kyong, and Sarah Sze. Past projects include artworks by Sun Yuan and Pen Yu, Lin Yilin, Gillian Wearing, Carlos Motta, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Lynn Hershman Leeson, John Maeda, Anthony McCall, Siebren Versteeg, Keith Piper, John Gerrard, Tom Lloyd, Paul Talman, John Klima, Julia Scher, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Connor, Runa Islam, William Kentridge, John Akomfrah, Ragnar Kjartansson, Rebecca Horn, Hans Haacke, Philippe Parreno, and Nam June Paik.

sasha has presented many public talks on their conservation work and research; contributed to published materials on the topics of contemporary art and time-based media conservation; guest lectured in courses and workshops at NYU’s Time-based Media Conservation program and Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program, and the Modern Materials and Media program at Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland; and serves as Managing Editor of the Electronic Media Review, a postprint publication of the Electronic Media Group at the American Institute for Conservation.

As one of the first graduates of the Time-based Media art conservation program at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (NYU), earning an MA in the History of Art and Archaeology and an MS in the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. sasha completed prerequisite coursework in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley Extension.

Prior to their conservation training, sasha received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), with an emphasis in Film, Video and New Media, as well as a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Writing. Their subsequent work involved arts production, installation, and management at institutions such as SAIC and the San Francisco Art Institute, the Oakland Museum of California, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).

Contact: sasha.llyn.arden at gmail