Katherine Bradford splits her time between Brunswick Maine and New York City.  She lived year round in Maine for 11 years and began showing her work in Maine in the 1970’s.  She had one person shows at Ann Weber Gallery, Dean Valentgas Gallery, Icon Contemporary Art, the Farnsworth Museum, University of Maine Museum and this is her third one person show at Aucocisco Galleries in Portland.

Her works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Farnsworth Museum, the Portland Museum and Bowdoin, Smith, Bryn Mawr and Bates Colleges.

She is currently on the graduate MFA faculty at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and on the faculty at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in Manhattan where she teaches a course in non-traditional painting.  In 2009 she was a resident faculty at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine.

Bradford is represented by Aucocisco Galleries in Portland, Maine, the Edward Thorp Gallery in New York City, and Samson Projects in Boston.  She has shown her work at P.S. 1 in Queens, the Brooklyn Museum, and Exit Art in New York City.

Her work has been reviewed 3 times in Art in America and most recently in the New York Times, the New Yorker and Art News.  She is a recipient of a Pollock Krasner Grant (2000) and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (2005).

April 2010