Katherine Bradford

Guggenheim Award winner Katherine Bradford (1942) is a New York based painter.  She is best known for her large paintings of swimmers under dramatic skies of planets and stars. In her 40’s she moved from her home in Maine to New York City bringing her school age twins with her as a single mother. She taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1997-2012) and was Senior Critic in the Yale MFA program (2016-2017). Now in her 80’s she paints full time in a studio in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn where she was among the first group of artists to move there. This past season she has had solo shows at her New York gallery, Canada, at Hyundai Gallery in Seoul Korea, and at Haverkampf Gallery in Berlin. Museum survey shows include the Portland Museum of Art, the Frye Museum in Seattle, Modern Museum at Fort Worth Texas and Kunsthaus Graz Contemporary Museum, Austria.

Groups shows include David Zwirner, the ICA Boston, and Anton Kern Gallery. She is also represented by Kaufman Repetto in Milan, Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and Matthew Brown in LA.  Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in DC, and the Menil Family Collection in Texas, among others.

Her glass mosaic murals can be found in the L line subway stop at First Ave in New York City.