IN CONVERSATION with JOEL STERNFELD
Saturday, 11 October 2025 | 4 PM
Joel Sternfeld in conversation about his exhibition currently on view.
Tickets: $25 pp [ 50% discount for Reading residents ]
Each ticket grants admission to our galleries from 2:30pm for self-guided visitation of our exhibitions, and to the talk starting at 4pm. Galleries close at 4pm.
Space is limited and registration is required
Born in New York in 1944, Joel Sternfeld is a renowned and influential artist using photography, noted for his large-format color photos documenting the American landscape. He earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College and teaches photography at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. His works are represented in institutional collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been the recipient of the Citigroup Photography Prize (2004), the Prix de Rome (1990-91), two Guggenheim Fellowships (1982, 1978), and the National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowship (1980). Approximately twenty books documenting Sternfeld’s projects have been published to date. In 2025, a new edition of American Prospects will be released by Steidl Press. Sternfeld lives and works in New York.
