Katherine Bradford
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Biography
Katherine Bradford was born in New York, New York in 1942. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and an MFA from Purchase College in Harrison, New York.
Bradford's recent solo and group exhibitions include "Deep Color" at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton, New York (2025); "A field of bloom and hum" at Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York (2025); "Keepers" at Moss Galleries in Portland, Maine (2025); "Flight Over Water Town" at Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, Japan (2024); "Humankind" at Kaufmann Repetto in Milan, Italy (2024); "Licked By the Waves, New Bathers in Art" at Museum MORE in Gorssel, Netherlands (2024); "Sky Swimmers" at Kunsthalle Emden in Emden, Germany (2024); "Gertrude Stein and Superman" at Haverkampf Leistenschneider in Berlin, Germany (2024); "American Odyssey" at Halle für Kunst Graz in Graz, Austria (2024); "Blue Dreams" at Shrine in Los Angeles, California (2024); "Jon Serl: No straight lines" at David Zwirner in New York, New York (2024); "Human Nature" at The Journal Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2024); "Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing" at The Church in Sag Harbor, New York (2024); "The Swimmer" at Flag Art Foundation in New York, New York (2024); "Le Vernissage, Partie Un" at Brigitte Mulholland in Paris, France (2024); "Color is the First Revelation of the World" at Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa, California (2024); "The Long View: Selections from the Norma B. Marin Collection of Maine Art" at Zillman Art Museum in Bangor, Maine (2024); "Conversation Galante" at Pilar Corrias in London, United Kingdom (2024); "Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford" at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington (2023); "Arms and the Sea" at CANADA in New York, New York (2023); "Fear of Shoes" at Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg in Derneberg, Germany (2023); "Les saltimbanques" at Campoli Presti in Paris, France (2023); "Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford" at Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine (2022); "Katherine Bradford and Sedrick Chisom" at Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, California (2022); "Angels to Some, Demons to Others' at Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, California (2022); "Night Swimmers" at Tomio Koyama in Tokyo, Japan (2022); and "Shell Seekers" at CANADA in East Hampton, New York (2022).
Bradford's work is held in public collections including Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts; Aïshti Collection in Beirut, Lebanon; Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland; Bates College Museum in Lewiston, Maine; Bowdoin College Museum in Brunswick, Maine; Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York; Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in Stanford, California; Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas; Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine; the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York; the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida; Hall Collection in Reading, Vermont; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts; Menil Foundation in Houston, Texas; Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York; Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, France; Musée National de Monaco in Monaco; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon; Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine; Smith College Museum in Northampton, Massachusetts; and Worcester Museum of Art in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Bradford is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2012); a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011); a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Katherine Bradford lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Works
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Exhibitions
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Yves Scherer, Spencer Sweeney, Jules de Balincourt, Marcus Leslie Singleton, Katherine Bradford, Nicole Wittenberg...
Human Nature 7 June – 10 August 2024 Los Angeles -
Jenna Gribbon, Spencer Sweeney, Louis Eisner, Marcus Leslie Singleton, Chloe Wise, Katherine Bradford, Federico de Francesco, Chris Martin, Rachel Rossin, Mie Olise Kjærgaard, Karyn Lyons...
Summer Sun 26 August – 31 October 2021 East Hampton -
Katherine Bradford, Justine Kurland, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tamara Gonzales, Joanne Greenbaum, EJ Hauser, Alison Knowles,
Special Blend Curated by Chris Martin 13 January – 12 February 2012 New York
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