Sarah Cowan is a video director and producer for museums and an arts writer based in New York.

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Directing and producing

Sarah is the Senior Video Producer at MoMA, where she leads MoMA's Video Content team, which makes videos about the works and artists in the museum’s collection. There, she oversees the MoMA YouTube channel, which has the largest following of any art institution. She directs and produces videos, from short documentaries, to scripted animations, to videos made for exhibitions.

Previously, she was a Producer in Digital Content at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she focused on projects for online audiences. She directed and produced Met Stories, an award-winning, year-long video series made on the occasion of The Met’s 150th anniversary.

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 a 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 painter Bill Jensen speaking about the impact Ryder has had on him was included in the exhibition A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.