Katherine Bradford
Exhibitions, CV, Press

Katherine Bradford (b. 1942, New York, NY) has received a Guggenheim Award and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship as well as two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work was the subject of a solo museum survey, The Flying Woman, which opened at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME in 2022 and traveled to the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA. She has had solo shows at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX and the Hall Foundation, Reading, VT. Bradford has been featured in group shows at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; the Prospect New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans, LA; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. In 2017–2018, she was Senior Critic on the faculty of the Yale School of Art. In 2021, she created five permanent large-scale mosaic murals for the MTA's First Avenue L Station in New York City. Her work is included in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; the Menil Collection, Houston, TX; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, among others.