b. 1942, New York, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
1988 MFA, State University of New York, Purchase, NY 1964 BA, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2024 | Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy “Sky Swimmers” Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany “Gertrude Stein and Superman” Haverkampf Leistenschneider Gallery, Berlin, Germany “American Odyssey” HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria |
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2023 | “Arms and the Sea” Canada, New York, NY “Fear of Shoes” Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg, Germany “Les saltimbanques” Campoli Presti, Paris, France |
2022 | “Two Person Show with Sedrick Chisom” Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA “Flying Woman: Katherine Bradford Paintings 1999-2021” Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (traveled to Frye Museum, Seattle, WA) “Night Swimmers” Tomio Koyama, Tokyo, Japan “Shell Seekers” CANADA East Hampton, East Hampton, NY |
2021 | “Mother Paintings” CANADA, New York, NY Diedrick Brackens & Katherine Bradford, Cambridge, MA “Swimmers and Lifeguards” Kaufman Repetto, Milan, Italy “Philosophers’ Clambake” Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT Solo Presentation 34 Bourdon Street, Campoli Presti, London, United Kingdom |
2020 | “Mother Joins the Circus“ Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR “With Love From Maine” CANADA, New York, NY (Online) |
2019 | “Stripes and Legs“ Campoli Presti, London, UK “Artists, Cops and Circus People“ Campoli Presti, Paris, France |
2018 | “Superman Returns with Swimmers“ Galerie Haverkampf, Berlin, Germany “Friends and Strangers“ CANADA, New York, NY “Magenta Nights“ Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR |
2017 | “Superman Responds“ Galerie Haverkampf, Berlin, Germany “FOCUS: Katherine Bradford“ The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy Sperone Westwater, New York, NY |
2016 | “Fear of Waves“ CANADA, New York, NY “Divers and Dreamers“ Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR |
2015 | “Life Boats“ Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME |
2014 | Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR Arts & Leisure, New York, NY Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL |
2013 | Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Steven Harvey Fine Art, New York, NY |
2012 | Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY |
2011 | Aucocisco Galleries, Portland, ME |
2010 | John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY Samson Projects, Boston, MA |
2008 | University of Maine Museum, Bangor, ME Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH |
2007 | “By Life & By Land” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY |
2005 | “Ether Night” Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
2004 | ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME |
2002 | Canaday Gallery, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA |
1994 | David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY |
1993 | Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA |
1992 | Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1991 | Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
Group Exhibitions
2024 | “Inner Life” Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, NY “Christmas in July” curated by Wells Chandler, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, New York, NY “Human Nature, Journal Gallery” Los Angeles, CA “Licked by the Waves: New Bathers in Art” Museum MORE, Gorssel, Netherlands “Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing” The Church, Sag Harbor, NY (traveling to The Flag Art Foundation, NY and Norton Museum of Art, FL) “The Swimmer” The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY “Love is Everything” Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn, Germany “Mercury Rising” Bookstein Projects, New York, NY “Travelers in the Mist” Larsen Warner, Stockholm, Sweden “Le Vernissage” Partie Un, Brigitte Mulholland, Paris, France “Color is the First Revelation of the World” Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA “The Long View: Selections from the Norma B. Marin Collection of Maine Art” Zillman Art Museum, Bangor, ME “Conversation Galante” Pilar Corrias, London, UK |
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2023 | “Homestories” Galerie Haas Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland “The Farnsworth at 75” Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME “Sea Change” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA “Who's Afraid of Stardust? Positionen queerer Gegenwartskunst” Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany “Drunk vs Stoned 3” The Ranch, Montauk, NY “The Day I Saw You: Portraits from Fundación AMMA” Queretaro Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico “A Magical Day at Ditch” curated by Katherine Bernhardt, Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, NY “Last Days of Summer” Dear Projects, Seoul, South Korea “My World Play” Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany “Beach” Nino Mier Gallery, New York, NY “the artist is a beast” On The Inside, Amsterdam, The Netherlands “Strike Fast, Dance Lightly” Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY and The Church, Sag Harbor, NY “CANADA on Paper” CANADA East Hampton, East Hampton, NY “A Particular Kind of Heaven” Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles, CA “Shifting Sands” Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME “I have done it again./ One year in every ten/ I manage it—” Adams and Ollman, New York, NY “Death of an Outsider” SHRINE, Los Angeles, CA “Friends & Family” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY “Come A Little Closer” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
2022 | “The Royal Love Child” Marsden Hartley and 8 Contemporary Artists, Bates College Museum, Lewiston, ME “For the People of Paris” Campoli Presti Gallery, Paris, France “The Drawing Centre Show” curated by Franck Gautherot, Seungduk Kim, Tobias Pils & Joe Bradley, Le Consortium, Dijon, France “At First Light” Two Centuries of Artists in Maine, Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick, ME “Come Out and Play“ Beers, London, United Kingdom “The View From Here“ Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME “Inner Strength” Seoul, Korea “I'm stepping high, I'm drifting, and there I go leaping“ Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, China “Sea Show” Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA “Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy“ Below Grand, New York, NY [traveled to Scully Tomasko Foundation, New York, NY] “Aplomb” Space R Art & Culture, Seoul, Korea “Person(a)” Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY “When in Maine” Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL “Chapeau!” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY “Painting Nerds” Able Baker Gallery, Portland, ME |
2021 | “Tangerine” Acquavella Galleries, West Palm Beach, FL “Any Distance Between Us” curated by Stephen Truax, RISD Museum, Brown University, Providence, RI “Potent” Harper’s, East Hampton, NY “Equal Affections” Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, NL “Different Strokes” curated by Marcus Jahmal, Almine Rech Gallery, London, United Kingdom “Float, Fly, Transcend” Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL “Women of Vision” Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME “Six Hot and Glassy” Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, NY “Friend Zone” curated by Vaughn Spann, Half Gallery, New York, NY “Sleep” Haverkampf Leinstenschneider Gallery, Berlin, DE “Dear John” James Castle and his Influence on Contemporary Artists, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR “Reflections: Human Nature” Gana Art, Seoul, Korea “A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and A Century of American Art” New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA |
2020 | 「Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond」The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College、サラトガ・スプリングス、アメリカ 「A Zigzag Over Essence” Winter Street Gallery」エドガータウン、アメリカ 「Surf Show」Tripoli Gallery、ウェィンスコット、アメリカ 「A Show of Hands」SEPTEMBER Gallery、ハドソン、アメリカ 「Painting the Essential: New York, 1980-Present」Timothy Taylor Gallery、ロンドン、イギリス (Online) 「Gallery Swap」Philipp Haverkampf Galerie、アムステルダム、オランダ 「Dog Days: Ryan McGinley, Katherine Bradford, Jack Pierson」Launch F18、ニューヨーク、アメリカ |
2019 | 「Men of Steel, Women of Wonder」Crystal Bridges Museum、ベントビル、アメリカ 「Katherine Bradford, Hulda Guzman, Rebecca Ness」Alexander Berggruen Gallery、ニューヨーク、アメリカ 「WHAT HAVE WE DONE? 15th Annual Thanksgiving Collective」Tripoli Gallery、イーストハンプトン、アメリカ 「GARDEN」Shrine Gallery、ニューヨーク、アメリカ 「Occupy Colby: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 2」Colby College Museum of Art、ウォータービル、アメリカ 「Away in the Hill」Grimm Gallery、ニューヨーク、アメリカ 「CONDO NEW YORK」Adams and Ollman at JTT、ニューヨーク、アメリカ 「Art Purposes」Bowdoin College Museum of Art、ブランズウィック、アメリカ 「Downward Flower」Fourteen 30、ポートランド、アメリカ 「Dance With Me」Zurcher Gallery、ニューヨーク、アメリカ 「Nurikabe」Tetsuo’s Garage、日光、栃木 「Downtown Painting: Presented by Alex Katz」Peter Freeman, Inc.、ニューヨーク、アメリカ 「Go Figure!」Eric Firestone Gallery、イーストハンプトン、アメリカ 「Big Ringer」Andrew Edlin Gallery、ニューヨーク、アメリカ 「Manifest Content」Campoli Presti、ロンドン、イギリス 「Girl Meets Girl」Choi Jager, CHOI&LAGER Gallery、ケルン、ドイツ 「Note Book」56 Henry、ニューヨーク、アメリカ 「The World According To」Pace Gallery、ニューヨーク、アメリカ 「Pulse」Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art、カンザスシティ、アメリカ 「I Don't Believe in Art I Believe in Artists」LX Gallery NYC、ニューヨーク、アメリカ 「Brooklyn Rail Collateral Event」Venice Biennale、ベネチア、イタリア |
2018 | “Redefining the Sublime” curated by Joel Sternfeld, The Hall Foundation at Gray Art Gallery, New York, NY “Tell Him What We Said...” One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY “Reinventing the Figure” Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland “The Solace of Amnesia” curated by Alexis Rockman and Katherine Gass Stowe, Hall Art Foundation,Reading, VT “Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime” curated by Joel Sternfeld, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY “A Time Before We Were Born: Visions of Arcadia in Contemporary Painting” curated by Raphael Rubenstein, Sylvia Wald + Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY “Paradise” Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Dancing Goddesses” Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece “Intimacy” curated by Stephen Truax, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY “Aporia” David & Schweitzer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Summer of Love” Freight and Volume, New York, NY “Being like Water” Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA |
2017 | “Prospect 4” New Orleans, U.S. Biennial, New Orleans, LA “Queering Space” Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT “Witches and Dudes” Galleri Kant, Copenhagen, Denmark “From Out Under” curated by Matthew Brown and Lucien Smith, Los Angeles, CA “Say Yes” Wayne State University, Detroit, MI “Get Out of That Space Ship and Act Like a Man, Franklin Parrasch, New York, NY “Heartbreak Hotel” Invisible Exports, New York, NY “Able Baker” Nostalgisms, Portland, ME “My Kid Could Do That” ProjectArt, New York, NY “Drawing Island” The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Pictograms” curated by Andrew Lee, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY “Spring Break” curated by Kristen Racaniello, New York, NY “Hors D’Oeuvres” curated by Bill Powers, Half Gallery Pop Up, New York, NY “Hecate” Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA “We might not have a planet left soon” 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany “The Science, Culture, & Art of Superheroes” Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA “Awkward” curated by Shawn Ellison, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY “A New Subjectivity” curated by Jason Stopa, Pratt Galleries, New York, NY (traveled to University of Arkansas, AR; Wesleyan College, CT) |
2016 | “Fort Greene” curated by Adrianne Rubenstein, Venus Over LA, Los Angeles, CA “AUGUST” Harper's Books, East Hampton, NY “The Great Figure Two” The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Shout For Tomorrow” Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY “The Female Gaze Part Two: Women Look at Men” Cheim & Read, New York, NY “Make Painting Great Again” CANADA, New York, NY “Imagine” Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy “Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime” curated by Joel Sternfeld, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT “MOTHER POPCORN” Big Medium, Austin, TX “Victory Garden” Planthouse Gallery, NY “Representing Rainbows” Gerald Peters Gallery, NY “Onion By the Ocean” Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “New York, New Painters” Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL “Flowers in Your Hair” curated by NIGHT GALLERY, fuse space, San Francisco, CA |
2015 | “Intimacy in Discourse” curated by Phong Bui, SVA Galleries, New York, NY “Contemporary Responses to Marsden Hartley” Driscoll Babcock Gallery, New York, NY “AWKWARD: 3 Person Show” Kers Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands “The Guston Influence” Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA “Back to the Future, Artists Originating out of the Williamsburg scene in the 80’s” Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “20” x 16”” Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY “New Narratives” Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
2014 | “Brooklyn Bridge” George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA “The Meaning of Life” Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA “Paper Variables” Gallery at Dieu Donne, New York, NY “Leaves” Steven Harvey Fine Arts, New York, NY “Chuck Webster” Katherine Bradford, Martin Mazorra, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY “The Age of Small Things” Dodge Gallery, New York, NY “Between Matter and Experience” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA “Pierogi 25th Anniversary Exhibition” Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “My Big Fat Painting” curated by Rick Briggs, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY |
2013 | “Come Together” Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY “Hope Despite the Times” Zieher Smith Gallery, New York, NY “Painting Impossible” Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Collection” Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA “‘Dirigo’ Maine Women Pioneers” University of Maine Museum, Westbrook, ME “The Triumph of Human Painting” Bull & Ram, Brooklyn, NY |
2012 | “Sky, Sea, Land” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA “Special Blend” JOURNAL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “CMCA Honors Award Exhibition” Rockport, ME “4 Guggenheim Fellows” Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
2011 | “21 American Painters” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY “Samson Projects” Boston, MA “American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational” New York, NY “Narcissus in the Studio” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA “Idiots Delight” curated by Craig Olson, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
2010 | “Ab/Fig.,” William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Story” Islip Museum of Art, Islip, NY “Talk Show” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY “Sacred and Profane” Portsmouth Museum, NH |
2009 | “Put in on Paper” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY “Chunky Monkey” Red Flagg Gallery, New York, NY “Kleinert/James Arts Center” Woodstock, NY |
2008 | “Ambivalent Figuration” Samson Projects, Boston, MA “Worth A Thousand Words” Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT “It’s Gouache” curated by Geoffrey Young, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY “Shape Shifters: New York Painters” University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC (traveled to Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY) |
2007 | “Orpheus Selection” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens, NY “Sea Worthy” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY |
2006 | “Everywhichway” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY “Sized Up: LargeScale Paintings” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA “Searching for Love and Fire” curated by Brendan Cass, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL |
2005 | “Invitational and Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture” American Academy of Art and Letters, New York, NY “New York’s Finest” CANADA, New York, NY “The Collections Gallery” Bates College Museum, Lewiston, ME “Norman B. Marin Collection” The University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME “Portland Museum Biennial” Portland Museum, Portland, ME |
2004 | “Home” curated by Bruce Brown, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY (traveled to University New England, Portland, ME) “Surrealist Drawings” Exquisite Corpses Today, Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, ME |
2003 | “The Lightness of Being” Black & White Gallery, New York, NY “Water, Water” curated by Lilly Wei, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Portland Museum Biennial” Portland Museum, Portland, ME |
2002 | “Project Room” Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY “In the Spirit of Landscape” Neilson Gallery, Boston, MA “Past Present Future” CMCA, Rockport, ME |
2001 | “Hidden Identity” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY “Wet!” Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY “Domestic Culture” Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME “Made in Brooklyn” curated by Phong Bui, Brooklyn Rail Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Portland Museum Biennial” Portland Museum, Portland, ME |
2000 | “The Figure: Another Side of Modernism” Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY |
1999 | “Group Show” Rebecca lbel Gallery, Columbus, OH “Invitational” Tig Fill Gallery, Cork, Ireland |
1998 | “Painting, N3” Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY “New York Drawers” Gasworks Gallery, London, United Kingdom “Pierogi Press” Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY “Ten from Brooklyn” Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA |
1997 | “Current Undercurrent, Working in Brooklyn” Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY “Art on Paper” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC “Modern Prints” Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College, Waterville, ME |
1996 | “Katherine Bradford and Mark Wethli” Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME |
Public Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Aïshti Collection, Beirut, Lebanon
Bates College Museum, Lewiston, ME
Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick, ME
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
ICA Boston, Boston, MA
Hall Collection, Reading, VT
Hort Family Collection, New York, NY
Menil Foundation, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA
Worcester Museum of Art, MA
Awards
2021 | Rappaport Prize |
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2012 | Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant |
2011 | Guggenheim Fellowship American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, New York, NY |
2005 | American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY |
2000 | Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY |