USA Projects

Mark Bradford (b. Los Angeles, US, 1961) received both his BFA (1995) and his MFA (1997) from the California Institute for the Arts. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship Award, the Bucksbaum Award for his contribution to the Whitney Biennial in 2006, a 2006 USA Fellowship Award, and a 2003 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. His works are in the collection of many major institutions including the Cincinnati Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

A traveling survey exhibition of Bradford's work was organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH and premiered at the institution in May 2010. The exhibition is currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston through March 13, 2011 after which it will go to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Summer 2011); the Dallas Museum of Art (Fall 2011); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Winter 2012).

Other recent solo exhibitions include The Pistol That Whistles, White Cube, London (2010); Mark Bradford, Aspen Art Museum (2010); Mark Bradford: Alphabet, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2010); Maps and Manifests: New Work by Mark Bradford, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati (2008); and Nobody Jones, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2008). Recent group exhibitions include Trust: Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea (2010); Moby-Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2009); Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London (2009); Prospect.1 New Orleans (2008-09); Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2008-09); and Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, The New Museum, New York (2008).

Bradford has served on the USA Board of Directors since 2007.

Portrait photo by Juan Carlos Avendano; photo courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Scorched Earth, 2006, collage on paper mounted on canvas, 94.5 x 118 in; photo courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co.