Katherine Bradford
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curriculum vitae:

EDUCATION
  BA Bryn Mawr College, PA
  MFA State University of New York, Purchase, NY
   
AWARDS
2005 Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2000 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, New York, NY
   
SELECTED ONE PERSON SHOWS
2010 “The Ocean Liner Show”  Aucocisco Galleries, Portland, ME
  Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
  John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2008 Samson Projects, Boston, MA
  University of Maine Museum, Bangor, ME
  Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
2007 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
  Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2006 Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2005 Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
  Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2002 Canaday Gallery, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
2001 ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
1999 ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
1996 Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
1994 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1993 ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
  Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
  Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1990 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
  Dean Valentgas Gallery, Portland, ME
1989 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
   
SELECTED RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2010 “Sacred and Profane” Portsmouth Museum of Art, NH
  “Talk Show”  Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
  Gallery Artists, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
  “Going, Going, Gone” Midtown Payson Galleries, Hobe Sound, FL
  “Ghost Dance” Park Vaudeville, Brooklyn, NY
2009 “Chunky Monkey” Red Flagg Gallery/Coleman Burke, New York, NY
  Put in on Paper, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
  “It’s a wonderful Life” Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock, New York, NY
  Party at Chris’s House, curated by Phong Bui, Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 “Ambivalent Figuration” Samson Projects, Boston, MA
  “Worth A Thousand Words”, Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT
  “It’s Gouache,” curated by Geoffrey Young, Jeff Bailey Gallery and Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
  “Group Show” curated  by Chris Martin, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  “Impermanent Collection IV,” ‘Temporary Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
  “Shape Shifters: New York Painters” University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC traveled to Sideshow Gallery,
  Brooklyn, NY
2007 “Orpheus Selection,” P.S. 1/MOMA , Queens, NY
  “Tiny”, curated by Bruce Brown, Whitney Galleries, Portland, ME
  “Sea Worthy,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
  “Horizon” curated by David Humphrey, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Sized Up: Large-Scale Paintings” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
  “Katherine Bradford, Steve diBenedetto, Kirsten Deirup” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
  “Everywhichway” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
  “Déjà vu,” curated by Faye Hirsch, Gallery 230, Brooklyn, NY
  “Searching for Love and Fire,” David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
  “New York’s Finest,” Canada, New York, NY
  NADA Art Fair, ATM Gallery, Miami, FLA
  “ Summer Sustenance, A Gourmand’s Delight,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
  “Off the Coast: A landscape Chronology,” The Collections Gallery, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
  “The Long View: Selections from the Norman B. Marin Collection” The University of Maine Museum of Art, University
  of Maine, Bangor, ME
  Portland Museum Biennial, Portland Museum, Portland, ME (also 2003, 2001)
2004 “Home,” D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center (dac), Brooklyn, NY  
  “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
  “Selections from the Pierogi Flat Files,” curated by Joe Arnheim, USM Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine,
  Gorham, ME
  “Volatile Bodies,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2002 “Reactions,” Exit Art, New York, NY
  Project Room, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
  “In the Spirit of Landscape,” Neilson Gallery, Boston, MA
  “Works on Paper,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY
  “Past Present Future,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
  “All Drawing,” Gallery 831, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2001 “Hidden Identity,” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
  “Wet!” Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
  “Domestic Culture,”curated by Mark Bessire, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2000

“The Figure: Another Side of Modernism,” Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center,
  Staten Island, NY

  “Living Is Easy” Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
  “Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection,” The Portland Museum of Art, Portland,
  ME
1999 “The Passion/Passions of Art,” Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
  “Invitational,” Tig Fill Gallery, Cork, Ireland
  “Group Show,” Rebecca lbel Gallery, Columbus, OH
  “The Flat Files,” Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1998 “New York Drawers,” Gasworks Gallery, London, England
  “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, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
  “Modern Prints,” Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College, Waterville, ME
1996 Gramercy International Art Fair, Bernard Toale Gallery, Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, NY
  “Pet Paintings,” Bernard Toale Gallery Boston, MA
1995 “Other Rooms,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
1994 “Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY
  “Small and Wet,” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1993 “My/Self ...Your/Other: Contemporary Women Artists and the Issue of Identity,” Castle Gallery, College of New
  Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
  “Childhood Show,” Art in General, New York, NY
  “Inaugural Show,” The Painting Center, New York, NY
1992 “Group Show,” Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
  “Invitational,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
  “Relief Prints by 15 New York Artists,” Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
  “Home/ A Visual Dialogue,” Artspace, New Haven, CT
1991 “American Art Today: New Directions,” The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL (catalogue,
  illustrated)
  “The Painters,” Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1990 “Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina At Greensboro, NC
  “Sooner or Later, Edward Albee’s Eye,” Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY
  (catalogue, photo)
  “New York Art 1990,” Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, Oswego, NY
  “Selected Works on Paper,” Victoria Munroe Gallery New York, NY
1989 “Traditions in American Landscape,” Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
  “Katherine Bradford, Ernest Briggs, Emily Nelligan,” Anne Weber Gallery Georgetown, ME
  “Ten Artists, Ten Visions,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1986 “Black and White Prevails: A Selection of Contemporary Drawings,” Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
  (catalogue)
   
COLLECTIONS
  Metropolitan Museum of Art  |  Brooklyn Museum  |  Portland Museum  |  Farnsworth Museum  |
  Bates College Museum |  Bowdoin College Museum  |  Smith College Museum
   
TEACHING
summer 2009 Resident Faculty, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1997 to present Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, MFA Faculty
1995 to present Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York, NY
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  Albee, Edward. Sooner or Later: Edward Albee’s Eye, Brookville NY: Hillwood Art   Gallery, Long Island University,
  exhibition catalogue, 1990, pp. 8-9 (illustrated-color)
  Artner, Alan. “Katherine Bradford Paintings,” CHICAGO TRIBUNE, February 6, 1992 (photo)
  Beem, Edgar Allen, “Bradford and Wethli Together Again”  MAINE TIMES, Sept 16, 2001
  Beem, Edgar Allen, “Artists in Maine” MAINE TIMES, July 20,2000 (photo)
  Birmbaum, Molly, Review Katherine Bradford at Edward Throp, ARTnews, summer 2007
  Bonetti, David. Review, THE BOSTON PHOENIX, July 7, 1989
  Braff, Phyllis. “In the Choices of Albee, Imagination Prevails,” NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, February11, 1990 (photo)
  Carrier, David. “Katherine Bradford,” ART INTERNATIONAL, Spring, 1990 (photo)
  Connor, Jill. “Nice and Wet,” Artnet.com Magazine Reviews, Spring, 2003
  Cyphers, Peggy. “Katherine Bradford,” ARTS MAGAZINE, January, 1990 (photo)
  Fleming, Lee. “Nothing but the Best,” THE WASHINGTON POST, February 12, 1994
  Freight +Volume, “Spotlight on Brendan Cass” Issue 1, Volume 1, Winter 2007 pp.110-114 (photo)
  Fyfe, Joe. “Art Review” Katherine Bradford at Sarah Bowen Gallery, ART IN AMERICA, May 20,2005
  Greenleaf, Ken. “Another Strong Maine Paring at Farnsworth Museum,” PORTLAND PRESS HERALD, March 21,1996
  Greenleaf, Ken. Review: Farnsworth Art Museum, ART NEW ENGLAND, October/November1999 (photo)
  Heartney, Eleanor. “American Art Today: New Directions” The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
  (Catalogue essay; illus. color)
  Hirsch, Faye, catalogue essay, “Deja Vu,” Gallery 230, Brooklyn, NY
  Isaacson, Philip, “Bradford at Aucocisco” MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM, May 7,2007
  Johnson, Ken, “Everywhichway” NEW YORK TIMES, July 7,2006
  Johnson, Ken, “Summer Sustenance” NEW YORK TIMES, July 15, 200
  Kalm, James, You Tube video “By Life and By Land” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
  Kalm, James. “Katherine Bradford, Ether Nights” THE BROOKLYN RAIL, February 2005 (photo)
  Kohen, Helen. “Review:’ New Directions,’” THE MIAMI HERALD, January 13, 1991 (photo)
  La Rocco, Ben, “Review, Home,” THE BROOKLYN RAIL,” April, 2004
  Lombardi, Dominick D. “Inaugural exhibition for Gallery in Beacon,” The New York Times, April 22, 2001)
  Martin, Chris and Peter Acheson, Interview with Katherine Bradford, BROOKLYN RAIL, May 2007
  Myles, Eileen. “Katherine Bradford at David Beitzel Gallery,” ART IN AMERICA, June 1993 (photo)
  Naves, Mario. “Everywhichway” THE NEW YORK OBSERVER, July 24, 2006
  New Yorker, Art Review, July 16, 2001
  NYARTS, “CWater, Water Everywhere” April 14, 2003
  Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (exhibition catalogue, 2001) Exhibition
  Catalogue 2003, Exhibition Catalogue 2005
  Raynor, Vivien. “Grappling with Feminism and Femininity,” NEW YORK TIMES, March 21, 1993 (photo)
  Smith, Roberta. “Katherine Bradford,” NEW YORK TIMES, Friday, October 27, 1989
  Stapen, Nancy. “Painters Stretch the Possible,” THE BOSTON GLOBE, November 11, 1993
  Thompson, Chris, Bradford’s Swim Paintings at Aucocisco,” Phoenix, May 20-26, 2005 (photo)
  Thompson, Chris, “Review,” ART NEW ENGLAND, Nov 2003
  Tate, Haines Sprunt. “New Farnsworth Show Explores Harmony and Dissonance,” MAINE TIMES, April 1, 1996 (photo)
  Taylor, Robert. “DeCordova Summer Show Has Questing Spirit,” THE BOSTON GLOBE, July 16, 1989
  Wei, Lilly. ‘The Figure, Another Side of Modernism,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center,   Newhouse Center for
  Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY (catalogue essay, 2000; p. 7,46,161,205, illustrated, color)
  Westfall, Stephen. “Katherine Bradford,” ART IN AMERICA, May 1990 (photo)
  Yau, John.  Review “By Life and by Land at Edward Thorp” Brooklyn Rail, June 2007

 

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