Sara Nickleson is an artist, curator, and gallery director based in Detroit, Michigan. She has held the position of Senior Director at Library Street Collective gallery in Detroit since 2016. Prior to moving to Detroit, Nickleson was the Head Curator and Director of Collections at the Design Exchange (DX) in Toronto, Canada, where she curated a number of internationally acclaimed exhibitions, including This is Not a Toy (with John Wee Tom and Pharrell Williams), The Politics of Fashion, and 3DXL. Nickleson has written for a number of arts publications, including exhibition catalogs (Jose Parla, Polarities; This is Not a Toy; Coping Mechanisms) and artist monographs (Sam Friedman). She has been a visiting curator and critic, and was invited by the British Council to take part in their Design Connections symposium as part of London Design Week in 2015. Nickleson received her BFA from the University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada) and her BID from the College for Creative Studies (Detroit, MI); in the fall of 2022, she will become an MFA Candidate in Painting at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.