Jack Sal began to take an interest in photography in the late 1960s, using the camera bought by his father in Germany immediately after the war; later he studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and at the Art Institute of Chicago with the masters of the School of the New Bauhaus of Chicago Ray K. Metzker and Ken Josephson. Starting in 1972 he created a series of works with the Polaroid SX-70 translating the outside world into matter, and then moved on to exploring the female body and internal spaces, thus demonstrating that the link with the physical world is subtle but profound, even in its most abstract state.
Since the early 80s his photographic works have been included in exhibitions at the MOMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the Light Gallery in New York, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, the Photographers Gallery in London , the International Center of Photography / ICP in New York and have been the subject of a solo exhibition at the International Museum of Photography / George Eastman House in Rochester. In 2009 they were part of the group show The Edge of Vision at the Aperture Foundation in New York (curated by Lyle Rexer).
In the 1980s he dealt with the language of photography also as curator of exhibitions at the Light Gallery in New York (Sol LeWitt Photographs 1985 and others) and collaborated with Mary Virginia Swanson on the archive work of the photos of the Magnum Agency (1984). From 1978 to 1995 he taught photography and visual arts at ICP New York, New York University, School of Visual Arts, Rutgars University.

Jack Sal was born in 1954 in Waterbury (USA), currently lives and works in New York. Among his recent publications: Half Empty / Half Full. Food Culture Ritual (June 2019), Chrom/A (Danilo Montanari Editore, December 2019). Upcoming events: the personal exhibition Archive/Archivio at the Vallicelliana Library in Rome, Italy (May 17-June 16) and the lecture at PHSC - The Photographic Historical Society of Canada in Toronto, Canada (June).
Among the recent personal exhibitions: 2019 - The Archive of the sign. Đanino Božić and Jack Sal, Acta International, Rome (double solo); 2018 - Photography & Technology, Roonee 247 fine arts gallery, Tokyo; 2016 - Building/Block, Stal Gallery, Muscat, Oman; 2015 - Jack Sal. Grandma's Notebook. Molise Recipes, Rispoli Library, Rome; 2014 - Ring/Rings/Ring, MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art, Lissone, Milan; 2013 - Coffee/&, Café Quadri, Venice (performance 53rd Venice Biennale); 2012 - Jack Sal Gandini Chapel 1986/2012 Montà, Padua; Jack Sal, Masakazu Yasuda, Chisato Saito. Going out Roonee - welcome to photography, Esprit Nouveau Gallery, Okayama, Japan - 2011; O/Ring/O, Stiftung für Medien Kunst und Philosophie, Berlin; in/line ARTCore Contemporary Gallery, Bari; O/Ring/O, Caffé Quadri, Venice (performance 54th Venice Biennale); Action/Re/Action, Palazzo Morelli, Todi; De/Portees, IIC of Osaka and Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Jack Sal. Photogenic Nan Sen, Roonee 247 Photography Gallery, Tokyo; New Works, SoHo Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan; 2010 - Steel/Particles, RaRa Newsstand, Terlizzi, Italy; De/Portees, IIC New York; De/Portees, House of Memory and History, Rome; 2009 - Re/Vision, ZONE Contemporary Art, New York.
Among the recent group shows: 2023 - Present Perfect | Past tense, Acta International, Rome; 2022 - I see where I have to, Bassiri Foundation, Fabro; 2021 - 13th Prague Photo, Prague, Czech Republic; KromArt photography expo 2021, Palazzo Velli, Rome; Lippstadt Kunstverein, Lippstadt, Germany; Extramoon, IX edition Castelnuovo Fotografia, Italy; 2019 - 1000 Wirklichkeiten, Deutsche Fotografische Akademie Hamburg, Germany; 2018 - Art-72Rooms, Hotel YiNongMeiYu, Shanghai, China; 2016 - Steps of Memory, IV edition Castelnuovo Photography; Matchless Gifts, Bhakti Center, New York; 2015 - Spiritual Bridges, San Salvatore in Lauro Museum, Rome; 2014 - 25 Jahre Kunstverein Lippstadt - Rückblick nach vorne, Kunstverein Lippstadt, Germany; Not Straight ~ Not So Straight, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York; 2013 - IO Klimt, Palazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio; 2012 - Transnational Art 2012, Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan; 2011 - The artist as rishi, G. Tucci Museum of Oriental Art, Rome; 2009 - Jordan Festival Amman, Jordan; Call to ART, Villa Pignatelli Museum, Naples; An Austrian Walk/March, MIR/Museum im Rathuas, Gleisdorf, Austria; The Edge of Vision, Aperture Foundation, New