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Mark Bradford
Birth year
1961
Lives in
Los Angeles
Works in
Los Angeles
Representing galleries
Current Exhibitions and Events
Statement
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Mark Bradford is an artist who incorporates ephemera from urban environments into mixed-media works on canvas that are rich in texture and visual complexity. Though he has experimented throughout his career with many different artistic media, including public art, installations, and video, his signature and best-known work takes the form of massively scaled, abstract collages that he assembles out of signage and other materials collected, most frequently, from his own neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. Bradford’s aesthetic language makes use of such elements as bits of billboards, handmade advertisements, foil, string, and permanent wave end-papers from beauty shops, which he arranges, layers, singes, sands, and bleaches into brilliantly hued, painterly structures that appear to sprawl and swirl. Loosely gridded and often cartographic in character, these pieces both reflect his interest in the formal traditions of modernist abstraction and reference the communities from which he culls his materials. Glimpses of partially legible text and imagery within his map-like works evoke a multitude of metaphors and suggest intricate systems in a constant state of flux. In the multilayered tableau Los Moscos (2004), bursts of bright yellows and reds radiate through a predominance of darker fragments, calling to mind clusters of pulsing city lights viewed from a collapsed and distanced perspective. With this piece and numerous others in his increasingly ambitious body of work, Bradford is developing a visually arresting means of representing in two dimensions the dynamism and depth of the sites and streets he excavates.
Mark Bradford received a B.F.A. (1995) and an M.F.A. (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions at such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, among many others.
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1995
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Bachelor of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Art, Valencia, CA
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1997
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Masters of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
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2007
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Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova, Robin Rhode, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC March-July 2007
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2006 - 2007
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Art on Paper, 2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, Nov 12, 2006- Jan 21, 2007
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2006 - 2007
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The Other Side of Perfect, World Class Boxing, Miami FL
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2006
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Mark Bradford: Niagra, LA>
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2006
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Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL.
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2006
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Black Alphabet- ConTEXTS of Contemporary African-American Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
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2006
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USA TODAY, Royal Academy of the Arts, London
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2006
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Consider This…(a LACMALab project) LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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2006
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Witness Protection, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, CA
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2006
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Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
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2006
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2006
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Sao Paolo Biennial, Sao Paolo, Brazil
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2006
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The Home of the Free, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
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2006
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Busan Biennial, Busan, South Korea
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2006
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Black Alphabet, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
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2006
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Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
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2006
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Sisqueiros Project, Curated by Lauri Firstenberg, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
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2005
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inSite: Art Practices in the Public Domain, San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico
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2005
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Grace and Measure, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
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2005
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Farsites, San Diego Museum of Art, CA and the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Mexico
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2005
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African Queen, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
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2004
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California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
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2004
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Perspectives @25: A Quarter-Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX.
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2004
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Bounce: Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
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2004
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Broad Territories, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
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2003
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Very Powerful Lords, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
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2003
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ARCO 2003, Madrid, Spain
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2003
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Lean To, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
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2003
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Black Belt, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
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2003
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Hair Stories, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (traveling exhibition)
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2003
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'Very Powerful Lords', Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, NY (solo)
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2003
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'statements', ARCO 2003, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Madrid
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2002
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'Pertaining to Painting,' Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
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2002
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'Mirror Image,' curated by Russell Ferguson, UCLA Hammer Museum and Center for Curatorial Studies
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2002
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Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
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2002
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'Painting as Paradox', Artists Space, NY
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2002
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'gucci down to the socks', Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
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2002
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'Project Series 16: Mark Bradford', Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (solo)
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2002
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'caught up', Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
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2002
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'that wasn't my car you saw', Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX (solo)
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2002
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Mirror Image, curated by Russell Ferguson, UCLA Hammer Museum (traveled to Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
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2002
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Pertaining to Painting, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (traveled to Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX)
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2002
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Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York, NY
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2001
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Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (traveled to Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA)
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2001
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Snapshots: New Art from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Beach, FL)
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2001
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'I don't think you ready for this jelly', Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, NY (solo)
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2001
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'Freestyle', curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Kim, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY and Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
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2001
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'Snapshots: New Art from Los Angeles', UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Beach
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2001
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'Mixed Feelings', University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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2001
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'Capital Art, 2001', Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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2000
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'Contemporary Art by African American Artists', The Art Museum of Princeton, NJ
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2000
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'Color Theory', Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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2000
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Contemporary Art by African American Artists, The Art Museum of Princeton, NJ
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2000
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'Fresh Cut Afros', Watts Towers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2000
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'Black Male', Reginald Ingraham Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1999
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'A Place Called Lovely', Greene Naftali, New York, NY
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1999
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'Biennale Internazionale 1999', Palazzo degli Affari, Florence, Italy
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1999
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Biennale Internazionale 1999, Palazzo degli Affari, Florence, Italy
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1999
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'European Wavy', Two Rivers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)
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1998
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'European Wavy',Two Rivers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)
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1998
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'Floss', Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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