Mark Bradford

430, 2003. Mixed media on canvas, 72 x 84 inches. Courtesy Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York

Juice, 2003. Mixed media on canvas, 72 x 84 inches. Courtesy Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Los Angeles, 1961
Resides: Los Angeles
Education: California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A., 1997);
California Institute of the Arts (B.F.A., 1995)

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2004
“Bounce,” REDCAT Gallery, California Institute of Arts, Valencia.
“Very Powerful Lords,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York.
“Tainted,” Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York.

2003
“Lazarus Effect,” Prague Biennale, National Gallery, Czech Republic.
“Caught Up,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles.
“Mark Bradford,” Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
“That Wasn’t My Car You Saw,” Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio.

2001
“I Don’t Think You Ready for This Jelly,” Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York.

1998

“Distribution,” Deep River, Los Angeles.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2003
"Belt,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Catalogue.
“ARCO 2003,” Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid.

2002
Pertaining to Painting,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Traveled. Catalogue.
“Mirror Image,” UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Traveled.
“Painting as Paradox,” Artists Space, New York. Catalogue.
“Mixed Feelings,” USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles. Catalogue.

2001
Freestyle,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Traveled. Catalogue.
“Snapshots: New Art from Los Angeles,” UCLA Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles. Traveled. Catalogue.

1999
A Place Called Lovely,” Greene Naftali, New York.

Selected Bibliography

2003
Scarborough, James. “Mark Bradford at Patricia Faure Gallery,” Artweek (February).

2002
Firstenberg, Lauri. “Review: I Don’t Think You Ready for This Jelly,” Flash Art (January-February).
Gaines, Malik. “Review,” Tema Celeste (July-August).
Jones, Amelia. “The Post-Black Bomb,” Tema Celeste (March-April).

2001
Cotter, Holland. “Review: I Don’t Think You Ready for This Jelly,” The New York Times (November 9).
“A Full Studio Museum Show Starts with 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn,” The New York Times (May 11).
Knight, Christopher. “Cultural Evolution in ‘Freestyle’,” Los Angeles Times (October 2).
“A ‘Snapshot’ of LA Artists,” Los Angeles Times (June 6).
Sirmans, Franklin. “I Don’t Think You Ready for This Jelly,” Time Out New
York (November 15-22).
Subotnick, Ali. “Review: Snapshot,” frieze (October).
Tumlir, Jan. “Review: Snapshot,” Artforum (October). Valdez, Sarah. “Freestyling,” Art in America (September).2001
Von Schlegell, Mark. “Review: ‘Snapshot’,” Art/Text (winter).
Waxman, Lori. “Review: Freestyle,” New Art Examiner (November-December).

2000
Budick, Ariella. “Post Black and White,” Newsday (June 1).
Harvey, Doug. “Gender, Race,” LA Weekly (August 4).
Horton, David. “Color Theory,” Artweek (September).
Saltz, Jerry. “Post-Black: Radical Intelligence at the Studio Museum in Harlem,” The Village Voice (May 22
).Schjeldahl, Peter. “Breaking Away: A Flowering of Young African-American Artists,” The New Yorker (June 10).
Tate, Greg. “The Golden Age,” The Village Voice (May 22).

1999
Ellegood, Anne. “A Place Called Lovely,” NY Arts (October).
Thomas, Mary. “L.A. Artist Bradford Presses Boundaries of Black Modernism,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette (April 3).
1998 Webster, Mary Hull. “‘Wings of Desire’ and Mark Bradford at the San Francisco Art Institute,” Artweek (April).