Mark Bradford

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

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Life and work

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.[1] He is known for grid-like abstract paintings combining collage with paints.

He 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, Street Level (2007) at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University (2010),[2] Sikkema Jenkins Gallery,[3][4] the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2011),[5] and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2011).[6]

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

He currently resides in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.

Awards

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. Most recently, he was a 2009 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship (also called the "MacArthur Genius Award").[7]

Contributions

2008 Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International [8]

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