Mark Bradford

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Mark Bradford (born 1961) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles.

[edit] Life and work

Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California,

He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, located at Valencia, California, U.S., earning an MFA in 1997 and a BFA in 1995. He is known for grid-like abstract paintings combining collage with paints.

He has won the Bucksbaum Award (2006), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2003), the Nancy Graves Foundation Grant (2002) and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award.^{[citation needed]}

Bradford has exhibited in the Sao Paulo Biennial (2006), Whitney Biennial (2006), Liverpool Biennial (2006), ARCO 2003 in Madrid, In Site at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, USA Today at The Royal Academy in London, and Street Level (2007) at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

The Los Angeles Times newspaper insert of "West" magazine featured an eight page article on the artist, June 11, 2006.

[edit] Contributions

2008 Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International [1]

[edit] External links

• Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 4 (2007).
• The Saatchi Gallery; About Mark Bradford and his art Additional information on Mark Bradford including artworks, text panels, articles, and full biography.
• Cirrus Gallery Biography of Mark Bradford.
• Youtube interview Mark Bradford video interview as part of the Street Level exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
• Street Level Exhibition and catalogue at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University featuring and in-depth look at the work of Mark Bradford.